More than 30,000 slum residents have been forced to the ‘critically polluted’ area of Mahul as the city clears land around a water pipeline and plans a bike lane to stop residents moving back. By Puja Changoiwala.

Meet the Bowery Boys, the Plug Uglies, and the Dead Rabbits, the 1800s gangs that ruled New York with an iron fist. By Mark Oliver.