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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 7030506" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Speaking of the meat-packing district, one of Simon R. Green's Hawk & Fisher books (fantasy buddy-cop fiction set in the city-state of Haven) has a necromancer attempting to raise the spirits of all the animals butchered over the decades in a slaughterhouse...You can also draw inspiration from DiCaprio's Gangs of New York, since a number of historical ethnic gangs in areas like Five Points, Hell's Kitchen, Little Italy, etc., could well have had ties to the supernatural entities of their homelands and/or may even have been created by or include some of them... They may still be fighting for territory, or maybe the old city Bosses may still be in charge of the unions or the mayor's office.The Irish neighborhoods in particular are some of the oldest in the city, and could be influenced heavily by the generic Victorian Era-style Sidhe (banshees, leprechauns, etc.), the actual historical Tuatha de Daanan or even just the druids. Hell, the Irish gods themselves could be living in NYC.If the various ethnic Mobs have supernatural influences, it could give entirely new meaning to the term "made man"... Oh, and don't forget that there was historically a huge Native American presence in that area before the Dutch and the English showed up - It's possible there's a powerful magically-active faction mixing Big Business with the Old Ways, or maybe there's even a Lost Tribe living underground beneath the subway tunnels, pushed further and further underground over the centuries by the expansion of other supernatural groups into the undercity...</blockquote>

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