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== Anime ==
* ''[[Baccano!]]'' fits in so far as its milieu is a gangster-ridden 1930s [[Big Applesauce|New York]]. However, it also involves ''alchemy'' and the mobster characters tend not to fit stereotype.
* Referenced in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' when Chiyo announces that she will be going to America. Osaka puts on her [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] hat and suggests that Chiyo will be kidnapped and killed there.
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' basically combines old and new versions of this as well as [[Eagle Land]] with the Thompson twins who were formerly muggers in America until they tried to [[Mugging the Monster|mug Death the Kidd]]
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** In particular Jersey City has historically had a big crime problem. Although the downtown/waterfront area has been gentrified into a yuppie wonderland, the rest of the city has a lot of ghetto areas. The "Greenville" neighborhood is desolate during the day and extremely scary at night. The most frustrating part is that City Hall refuses to acknowledge these realities, and instead claims that crime is [[Damning With Faint Praise|"at a 30-year low" despite the fact that virtually everyone in the city knows otherwise.]]
*** City Hall may well [[Exact Words|be right]]. "30-year low" just means that there is less crime now than there was at any one point in the last thirty years, ''not'' that there is little crime.
* [[Philadelphia (useful notes)|Philadelphia]] has a long history of crime, especially in terms of murder rate, gang violence, and its reputation as being a [[The Mafia|mafia]] stronghold. The city of Camden, New Jersey, located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, has frequently been rated as the most dangerous city in the United States.
* The [[Dying Town|Dying Towns]] in the Midwestern US are among the best known current examples, with [[Detroit]] and [[Cleveland]] being the most notorious. It speaks volumes that Chicago, the ''original'' Gangsterland, is arguably the most well-off city in the region right now.
** Murray Hill is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods that's actually in Cleveland, rather than a suburb. It's also home to the local mafia.
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