Around 1900 a man named Mock Duck appeared on the scene (the transliterations of these Chinese names sound like wild guesses). Mock Duck was a lone wolf, a character straight out of Yojimbo or A Fistful of Dollars. He wore chain mail, habitually carried two .45 revolvers and a hatchet, and was verysoon known and feared for his favored fighting technique, which consisted of squatting in the middle of the street, shutting his eyes, and firing both guns in a full circle around him. . . Doyers street became the non-man’s-land of the war, the turn in its middle earning the designation of the “bloody angle.” from Lowlife by Luc Sante.

Both Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) and Irving Berlin (Izzy Baline) were singing waiters at Mike Callahan’s Dance Saloon on Doyers Street