NR Manhattan
Manhattan is the main setting of Newsies Rewritten, following the actions of Lower Manhattan’s strike before spreading to the rest of the borough and then the city.
Led by Jack Kelly, Manhattan pairs sub-boroughs under one leader with those leaders reporting to Jack. (Ex. Jack runs the entirety of Lower Manhattan, Racetrack runs the Green Village sub-borough paired with Albert running the Lower East Side. Jack mainly runs with Green Village and Race acts as his second.)
Leaders of Manhattan usually model themselves after entertainers, Jack’s being a dime novel cowboy while Race may model himself after Ted Sloan, a popular horse jockey of the time.
Within the sub-boroughs, newsies run in groups of 5-6, a trend started by Jack. The small groups or “crews” run like an outlaw gang (wild west reference.) Jack doesn’t handle any disputes unless they disturb his own peace, which eventually more and more often as we get closer to the strike and when Jack needs to unify the group.
Manhattan wears sky blue to indigo, as purple was an expensive color and Manhattan was known was known as the financial district. (Violets were for Brooklyn Newsies as it was a more reddish tone). Most newsies can’t afford to buy shirts to represent their borough, but many mentors who save up pass their old shirts down to their apprentices whenever they get themselves a newer shirt, funnily spreading the tradition of “the more blue you wear, the more Manhattan you are.”
