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Five Sites from New York City’s Secret Bloody Past You Can Still Visit Today Did you know a bouncer called Gallus Mag used to bite off patrons’ ears and store them in pickle jars in one of modern-day New York City’s most well-known watering holes? Taking a cue from Copper, the new BBC America show about the violence, corruption, race riots, and class struggle of 1860s New York, here’s a few of the city’s historically gory addresses that you can still visit today — along with where to find them. This list is insane. Go read it.

Five Sites from New York City’s Secret Bloody Past You Can Still Visit Today

Did you know a bouncer called Gallus Mag used to bite off patrons’ ears and store them in pickle jars in one of modern-day New York City’s most well-known watering holes? Taking a cue from Copper, the new BBC America show about the violence, corruption, race riots, and class struggle of 1860s New York, here’s a few of the city’s historically gory addresses that you can still visit today — along with where to find them.

This list is insane. Go read it.

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