The 19th Street Gang was a New York City predominantly Irish Gang, street gang during the 1870s known as a particularly violent anti-Protestant gang. The 19th Street Gang, made up mostly of young Pickpocketing, pickpockets, Robbery, muggers, and wikt:sneak thief, sneak thieves, was led by a young man known as Little Mike. Operating around New York's 19th Street (New York), 19th Street to 34th Street (New York), 34th Street, known as "Poverty Lane", the gang mainly robbed defenseless victims, such as the elderly, as well as women and children; however, the gang was sometimes said to spare local Catholics, often asking victims to give their baptismal name, recite psalms, their local Church body, church, and other questions. By the end of the 1880s, the gang had disappeared entirely.

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