The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob New York Performances

At the Cutting Room, author T. J. English joins a Q&A on *The Westies: Inside New York’s Irish Mob*, with comedian and podcaster Joey “CoCo” Diaz as host. English draws on his long record of reporting on organized crime to trace how the Westies rose from the margins of Hell’s Kitchen into the city’s power networks, and what their story reveals about New York’s changing streets. Diaz brings a stand-up sensibility that can cut through the mythmaking without softening the violence. In a city that archives itself through crime lore, this conversation treats the material as social history, not legend.