“No Irish Need Apply” sign

Bridget McCool’s mugshot

Inside tenement housing in Lower Manhattan

Five Points neighborhood of Lower Manhattan around when Marion Canning lived there

A police mugshot database from 1890

Margaret Brown’s mugshot

Frederica “Marm” Mandelbaum

Karen:

A trio of Bad Bridgets

Episode sources:

1. “Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women” by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick

2. “The Gangs of New York” by Herbert Asbury

3. “Dark history of Ireland's 'bad Bridgets'” by Stephanie Linning (Daily Mail) 2021

4. “That Summer of 1870” by Charles Lockwood (New York Times) 1973

5. “Fifty Years a Pick-Pocket” (St. Louis Globe-Democrat) 1891

6. “#117 Margaret Brown” (Professional Criminals of America) 2018

7. “Again in the Tolls” (The San Francisco Call Bulletin) 1891

8. “The Extraordinary ‘Mother’ Mandelbaum” by Susan Johnson (Museum of the City of New York) 2018 

9. “Margaret Brown (Criminal)” (Wikipedia)

Georgia:

Mohammed Islam’s teenage day trading hoax

Episode sources:

1. “EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag’s Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up” by Ken Kurson (New York Observer) 2014

2. “Anatomy of a hoax: how a 17-year-old built a crazy rumour that swept financial media” by Jana Kasperkevic and Heidi Moore (The Guardian) 2014

3. “Riches to Rags for New York Teenager Who Now Says His Story Is Hoax” by Kate Taylor and Ravi Somaiya (The New York Times) 2014

4. “The Story Of The High-School Trader Who Made $72 Million Is A Rumor Spun Out Of Control” by Julia La Roche (Business Insider) 2014

5. “$72 million stock market kid was all a lie” (Fox 5 New York) 2014

6. “12. Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens As Soon As He Turns 18” by Jessica Pressler (New York Magazine) 2014

7. “THE 20 UNDER 20: Meet The Teen Traders Trying To Take Over The Finance World” by Julia La Roche (Business Insider) 2013

8. “The Golden Boy” by Ariella Kahan (Stuyvesant Spectator) 2013

9. “Bloomberg Rescinded Offer To Writer Jessica Pressler After New York Magazine Hoax” by Michael Calderone (Huffington Post) 2014

Mohammed Islam

(The Guardian)

Stuyvesant High School

(Creative Commons)