James R. McManus, Last of the Hell’s Kitchen Bosses, Dies at 84

1:29pm PST - February 5th, 2019    george washington - The New York Times

James R. McManus in his element in 2017. He became the Democratic district leader in Hell’s Kitchen in 1963, following in the footsteps of a great-uncle who had ousted a Tammany Hall power, George Washington Plunkitt, in 1905.