 Together they opened the "Winona Club", a clubhouse intended to serve as a joint rendezvous and headquarters, located on West Forty-Seventh Street near Tenth Avenue.The gang's unruly behavior at the club soon disrupted life in the relatively well-to-do neighborhood as its members regularly "engaged in drunken revels and made the night hideous with the sound of their bickerings and brawlings".The owner of the building, Dennis J. Keating, was a blacksmith by trade and apparently had no knowledge of his tenants identities.