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Oxford Languages defines a riot as, quote, a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd.

And by that standard, of course, there have been many more riots in New York City's roughly 400 year history than we could briefly describe, let alone do justice to in the course of a single episode.

Among many others, there were the Orange Riots of 1870 and 1871, those pitted Irish Protestant New Yorkers commemorating the Battle of the Boyne two centuries earlier against Irish Catholic New Yorkers who attacked their parade despite its NYPD protection in a pair of bloody battles that killed dozens of laborers and three National Guardsmen.