It was like one big family. We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. They didnt like me too much. We didnt shake nobody down or hurt nobody. We could see them from the hill. Ballistics work being done on Piggys Candy Store. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. In them days, it was no big thing. He suffers from asthma. That was East New York. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. banerjee@fordham.edu. I lived on Fulton and Rockaway, which was home to another crew, the Fulton and Rockaway Boys. There were some crazy kids, though. They were a very big club. The Duckies got their name because the original guys hung out at the Duck pond in the Bronx Botanical Gardens and shot at the ducks with slingshots, therefore, they eventually called themselves "Duckies". I think snuff is much worse than cocaine. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. Thats where the money was. It was where I was going to end up, whether I wanted to or not. Inside, sipping a soda, was Ernest Montuoro. It made more money. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in Me and a few other guys started making a lot of noise, you know, fighting all these other gangs. Set in the Bronx in 1963, the film follows a gang of Italian-American teenagers known as the Wanderers and their ongoing power struggles with rival gangs such as the Baldies and the Wongs. We were so fuckin broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. We were never really into robbing people. The book is 6x9 and has 370 pages! I could make up to $20. Italians were Italians in those days. We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. Sometimes. My childrens fatherwe had five children togetherhe and I slept in abandoned cars and buildings, what we called clubhouses. I was a heroin addict from the age of maybe 13 to 17, but not like a falling-down addict. Such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and long disruptions. Because of this gang fights between the two groups became the norm. It doesnt get any worse than that. True, that could be any college. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. So this guy started going off with everybody. All except the sadistic Ducky Boys who seem to suddenly materialize at the opportune moment, are more like social clubs and do little besides partying and hanging out. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. You had to have respect. Eventually, if you hung out in that neighborhood you tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into town. *Click on Fullscreen to see the full trial minutes*. I never wore Property of. In the gang, the girls used to have to wear Property of on their jackets. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. By todays standards, there would have been a lot more lawsuits. Basically the territory was divided by the Bronx River that ran through the park. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. There were like 20 of us. The Woodside Chiefs, teenage boys, were self funded. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. By the way, there were always fights yet it was all handled with reverence, one on one. Wed hang out in the park at night. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. Why you crying? You know whyyou shot my brother. It was crazy. If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. Looking to gather allies to their fight as the Del-Bombers have bigger numbers, The Wanderers get rejected (humiliatingly) by the Fordham Baldies and by the Chinese Wongs. Usually it was chains or sticks; knives and zip guns occasionally. Every Friday and Saturday night I would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and Flushing Avenue. I left it, but recommend changing that line. I never shot up. "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. They looked at both of us, and I was a little relieved because I said to myself, well, they really was there, so Im gonna walk. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. Baseball Baseball: Facebook Baseball: Twitter Baseball: Instagram Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Facebook Basketball: Twitter Basketball: Instagram Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Facebook Cross Country: Twitter Cross . 1926), Words gane to the kitchen,And words gane to the ha,That Marie Hamilton gangs wi bairnTo the hichest Stewart of a.Unknown. Meanwhile, a local gang, the Fordham Baldies, menacing blacks and Hispanics in Roosevelt's vicinity, kept enrollment overwhelmingly white. I'm kind of busy so don't know if I can do much here, but if I come across things that are relevant, I'll add them. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. About ten months ago I received an email from the son of Mario Montuoro. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. In that neighborhood, if you werent in a gang, you just went to school and you were fine, but if you were in a gang your chances of survival were 50/50. I think I shot two or three times with my .25 before it jammed. Even some of the names used are real. It was two carloads of the fellas, just headed toward the block, coming from Greenpoint. For instance, my friend Dusty got stabbed, and he came back from the Bronx really late, and I hung out with him the whole night at the hospital. We protected women. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? I also had to fight some of the guys in the club. We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. Then Id go into this one restaurant, talk to the guy I knew there, find out if there was any food from breakfast left99 percent of the time there wasand hed pack it up and give it to me. bayonets, brass knuckles, and garrison belts before officers swoop One time, something had happened so I went looking for this guy to get him. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. Chemistry Faculty. One of my friends who I wanted to get high with said, You wanna get high, you gotta watch this. And he shot up and he said, Im doing this so you can see what I do, and I said, I dont want nothing to do with that. And I never did it. Dusty Vision TV on Facebook and IG Hit the subscribe and notification (bell) button!BRONX GANGS Of The 1960s - FORDHAM BALDIES Wanderers Ducky Boys Lost Boys of The Bronx James HannonI dont not own the rights to any music in this videoDusty Vision TV Instagram: Dusty Vision TVFacebook: Dusty Vision TVIf you would like to be a guest on my program please email me at dustyangeloddcast@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram \"Dusty Vision TV\"Check out my other youtube channel \"Dusty Vision Radio\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQCpoV0wVvjtGQN5ijpjGKACheck out my music. On the next block, one block past Bushwick Avenue, was Aberdeen Park. I never believed in that, so I never did it. When I last saw them, they were street fighters, members of the Fordham Baldies, a gang that made our Little Italy neighborhood unsafe for outsiders. Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. Everybody wants to make a name for themselves, a reputation. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. Finally the Youth Squadthe special police squad they set up just to deal with the gang problemgot involved. One group gathered at PS 171 at 30th Ave and 14th Street, the other So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. And the drugs? The Unknowns used to be from Union to Rodney, Metropolitan to like South 4th. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. In the summer we were always out there, like 15 or 20 of us, sitting on the steps in summer, drinking beer, and bullshitting. I saw a lot of people get killed and a lot of people go to jail. We didnt have rules or initiations. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. So it worked both ways. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. Then you were on file. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. The Brooklyn clubs were OK, but the clubs from the Bronx and Queensthe Savage Skulls, the Nomadsthey could cause some problems. I was 12 or 13. When this second son was born, Ernests widow moved to California leaving everyone and everything behind. That means turn your jacket around or take it off. I used to steal a lot from factories. They talked about it, shook hands, and then we were brother clubs. We went for the cheap wine. We werent selling, we were just using. Me and him got along because there was no competition and we really loved each other. His laugh reflex got fucked-up. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. He couldnt show up to collect his rent. As mentioned above, they were a powerful gang and continued to make their presence known up to at least 1959, which by that time had killed two more times. We spent a night one time stripping a whole car completely down to the chassis. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. On Tuesday, June 1, 1954 at around noon hour, six Red Wings arrived at Orchard Beach, the Bronx in a dark-coloured 41 Cadillac, driven by Frank Giampetruzzi who was AWOL from Camp Dix. Interestingly, this second nephew of Ernests that emailed me works just a few miles from where Ernest was shot and killed. Little Italy was strictly Italian. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. It wasnt too hard to see the handwriting on the wall. But I stole. Wed have sticks, bats, clubs, and bottles, and wed just beat the heck out of each other until the cops came or until we got tired of it. A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. Here's the spotify link:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FJNuMjFZHeQKJXR0DlmzX?si=RjpC0Rx4SpWB7sXFlct-Qg\u0026utm_source=copy-link\u0026dl_branch=1\u0026nd=1 Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. And to make it more interesting, this gang fight happened far from East Harlem it happened in the Bronx in Baldies turf at 189th Street and Belmont Ave. There were six of them and two of us. Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. Now they were even stronger, hardened by. I am currently researching these two killings one in 1958 and the other in 1959 and hope to write about them in more detail in the future. One time we were having a fight and we had a couple of guys up on a roof. If you dont do it, youre not part of the crew. His mind was OK, but hed be talking and hed start laughing cause he couldnt help it. It was a mixed group, Italians, Blacks and Irish boys who had grown up together. When we were on Lee Avenue there was this black guy. I was first in a gang when I lived in East Harlem. Or somebody would tell me, Listen, I got a van, brand new, and I wanna collect insurance. So he would tell me where he parked it. You know, if somebody needed to get high, you made sure they got high; if someone got locked up, you make sure when they got out, you threw a party. You lived in the neighborhood, you joined a gang. The quarterback of the Lynvettes, Thomas "Tommy" Wall, a Woodsider and former Chief QB said about the Chiefs "in the off season we were a gang." Often it was handled one on? 42nd Street was like a neutral area, unless you ran into clubs from different boroughs. The balcony on 204th and the 'tunnels', and the whole area surrounding Twin Lakes was our turf! Ducking from shootouts and things like that. It was like 50 cents a bottle. I used to hide sometimes on the corner and wait for him, just hoping to get him. Chapter leaders, members, and advisors will be part of the Active Minds Chapter Network upon activation and will . He lived like that for a long time. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. I added a stub to stave off the CSD folks - the article does need fleshing out, but as a stub you should be given some time to do so. But yeah, I broke into every factory. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. The last thing we wanted was heat on the block. Little by little the white gang broke up. Right now, the Majestics is a motorcycle club. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). They help people out. Overdosed, stuff like that. Ernests son is now 58 years old and just now found out about his familys history in New York City. It took a lot of people out. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. We had a building on the Southside that we painted up with Free Sonny Barger. He was the Hells Angels national president who was locked up at the time. I dont want to glorify it, because for todays youth theres nothing to glorify in gangs, but back then it was what we did to survive. It wasnt about, This is where were hanging out, anymore. (3) Police busted up a potential rumble and arrested some Gowanus He died in a tragic fuckin condition. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. I mean, we liked to have a good old-fashioned fight and beat the hell outta each other, but we never had no intentions of, Lets go down there and kill a few of em. We all lived in the same neighborhoodthat was another reason why we werent out to kill each other. First, we need to find some places that we could link to this page, so it gets some visibility. You have it all. But he tires of being a Baldie, and the nail in the coffin, is when all the good members in a drunken stupor, sign up for the US Navy. Our program is free and empowers youth to champion mental health advocacy and awareness with their peers. A lot of times, people would come back all beat up and bruised. In fact, we protected people. Thats how I used to get my money. It would scare people. Unlike the idiotic movie the wanderers, however, they didn't have any blacks in the gang, they went around to other neighborhoods to see if they could find some to beat up. It started as a dance club, and as things happened in the clubarguments and fightsit became a gang. hairstyle later made famous by Fonzie from Happy Days. Youd be saying, I dont give a shit who you are, calling the club out. Or cite a source, of course. They were on the highway, and the guy said something out the window to his girl, and they went back and forth, then finally pulled off the highway up by Bryant Park. Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's Belmont Avenue. A 25 year-old hanger- It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. Mostly it was breaking into factories in Brooklyn. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The We had a buyer for every piecenot even from garages. Indeed, I started this at someone else's suggestion, with the understanding that s/he would pick up from there. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. So after a while, he would make an apartment available to us. . I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. Sweater by United Bamboo, jeans by Levis. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. The rivalry was like what you see in movies and worse, because gangs back then, the people they hung out with meant more to them than their family. But back then, if you had a girlfriend, if you were getting laid, you were the king of the mountain. It was a crazy neighborhood. Actually, I wish I could go back a couple years. So wed take the apartment over. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams I got locked up with another friend of mine. If you want to see somebodys colors, you walk around the back and look at them. Convicted Red Wings were Frank Ciappetta, Vincent Gugliemelli, Philip Bonanno, Jerry Santaniello and Frank Giampetruzzi. I was satisfied with sniffing. A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. All of them met violent deaths. Who was I supposed to hang out with? Your chances of going to jail were even worse. That was our block, so we had to protect everybody from other people who would come in and mess up the block. I knew so many people that everybody would open their doors for me. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. We had a clubhouse. We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. He was invincible. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. He didnt see where I was shooting from, so I ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. It was an opportunistic thing. Mario felt partially responsible for his brothers death and it was something that troubled him for his entire life. I do think a cross-reference to similar Brooklyn movies (and Mean Streets) makes sense, but as a Wiki neophyte and busy guy, I don't have the time to do it. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. We buried each others brothers too much. It was just fighting all the time. And they wouldnt flip colors. The Dukes were on Roebling and South 3rd, over to South 1st. But thats the way they did it in those days. If you want to talk about family members alone, Ive lost five. Their leader is Terror, a 6'6", 400-pound monster of a man. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. I remember them strutting their stuff on the boardwalk dressed in black bikini bathing suits with red piping. All of us went to school together. In Williamsburg, where we were, it was the Majestics, the Dukes, the Unknown Bikers, South 9 Bikers, Spanish Kings, Devil Rebels, Dirty Ones, and a bunch more. SM28, Mount Carmel Candy Store Home of the Best New York Egg Creams. Everybody else had to shoot, because we already were. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. The problem with the Bronx in 1978 was there were real gangs. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. We quit school at 16, and we went up to the park, we drank wine, and we ran up and down the street beating each other up. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. We started saying, Why dont we make patches? And finally we did. When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. So Id go back to the club, feed myself, feed my man and whoever else was there. Everybody fights to kill. Not in my memory! He was from the Marcy Projects and he would always come down with a gun. And sometimes it didnt. They were like, Whos the president? and a couple of guys went over, and we had this truce. We all got along. They were called the Flaming Satans. We had a riot on Fulton Street one time, and thats what we did. Second, I want to expand the introduction. The problem with that was, if you snatched one of their hats in the wrong neighborhood, youd have a hell of a chase. When the pill came, everything changed. When they started with the knives, we started with the zip guns. It was just a lucky shot and it went right through this guys arm. At that time you could buy the Robitussin AC, with codeine. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. DiVincenzo and Caleo were both members of the Baldies but had no criminal record. THE 5TH (EAST,TREMONT AND MAPES AVE.) area in the 1970's: THE BLACK SPADES, PEACE MAKERS, HARLEM TURKS, 7 IMMORTALS, P.O.W.E.R. Today, thats what the gangs call itthe Bloods, the Crips, all of them, they call it flagging: I die for my flag. Egyptian Dragons". A lot of shit went on. You had the Dirty Ones up by Graham Avenue. I was 13 or 14 when I started. They were all afraid of us. I would break into the sweater factory, the clothes factory, the pillow factory I even broke into a coffin factory one day. Later on we had a clubhouse where wed hang out all the time. We were always there. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety.. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. You have every type of person in every club. Big deal.. Unlike the idiotic movie the wanderers, however, they didn't have any blacks in the gang, they went around to other neighborhoods to see if they could find some to beat up. Giampetruzzi, Bonano, Santanielli and the rest of the Red Wings high tailed it out of the Bronx back to East Harlem, seething over the insults and plotting revenge. The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. We gotta watch our back. Youd bring a girl with you so she could hold the gun. It happened on a fateful late spring day in 1954. They were a big crewwhite gang, mostly Italian. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. We made sure nobody messed with them. We had no real guns, just the ones that we made, which were a joke. Mario was Ernests brother but passed away a couple of days prior to his son emailing me in March 2012. Back then, Id get up in the morning, 7:30 or so, go stand on the corner by the train station, and ask for quarters. Thats when we were first coming up. 1954 Red Wings & Fordham Baldies The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. The Majestics started in the early 70s. 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