Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. Little Italy was strictly Italian. If you want to talk about family members alone, Ive lost five. The gangs started separating. I had a very bad temper back then. You have your murderers, your rapists, your thieves. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. About a month later, when he got out of the hospital, they invaded us again. Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. A famous quote about the Woodside Chiefs is in a book by Robert Timberg titled "State of Grace" Simon & Shuster, 2004. They said, Why should I buy drugs to sell when I can steal his and sell them? It happened all the time. It was easier to sell. The Fordham Baldies were one of the gangs featured in the movie "The Wanderer". It was about territory. He didnt see where I was shooting from, so I ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one. Violence back then, if you put it on a scale, Id say it was about a seven. That was all tongue in cheek. I used to hide sometimes on the corner and wait for him, just hoping to get him. When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. The Dukes were on Roebling and South 3rd, over to South 1st. We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. That was the end of him. The year is 1963 but their experiences are universal: falling in love, surviving in school and defending their turf against rivals like the Fordham Baldies, the Del Bombers and the Ducky Boys. They had another Italian neighborhood, down on Cherry Street and Madison that was just the same as ours. It was just fighting all the time. The Fordham Rams are members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for most sports. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. Mostly it was breaking into factories in Brooklyn. And I tell you, it was a great fuckin scam. You lived in the neighborhood, you joined a gang. Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. Because we were like brothers. 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. You push a guy up against a wall with a car, just push him till he hits the wall. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. 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. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. The Unknowns used to be from Union to Rodney, Metropolitan to like South 4th. His mind was OK, but hed be talking and hed start laughing cause he couldnt help it. The Spanish guys were different. Thats where the money was. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were charged with 2nd Degree Murder and the others with 1st Degree Manslaughter. By the way, there were always fights yet it was all handled with reverence, one on one. 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. bayonets, brass knuckles, and garrison belts before officers swoop In the 1960s, among students citywide, truancy increased and socializing gained priority, whereby other high schools often issued diplomas once their requirements were met via Roosevelt's evening and summer . One summer, we got into it with the Spanish gang. It was all music and sex and everybody getting high. Theres a lot of people walking around messed up to this day, and a lot of people dead. So I ran down the block, and theres a restaurant there, still exists to this day, and I went into the restaurant because I knew the owner. 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. After a while, if he called the police, then we would be angry at him. Like 12 or 13. Who the hell knows whats in your brain? Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. It was a mixed group, Italians, Blacks and Irish boys who had grown up together. Even some of the names used are real. Convicted Red Wings were Frank Ciappetta, Vincent Gugliemelli, Philip Bonanno, Jerry Santaniello and Frank Giampetruzzi. Most were dressed in the 'uniform Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. This was 1960 through 1962. Only Chinese guys did opium. Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. Overdosed, stuff like that. We were so fuckin broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. I carried guns for them if we had to go to a rumble or something because at the time the police wouldnt check the girls. That wasnt allowed in that neighborhood because that old lady may be some big shot gangsters relative. Thats how I used to get my money. Everything started out with sweaters. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available! You could see how things escalated. "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. Girls drank free. I was like, What the hell is this? Then, slowly but surely, I started to gravitate towards them. We made sure nobody messed with them. NYC. They help people out. That means turn your jacket around or take it off. We were coming down Freeman Street to the club, and they started calling us out. We went for the cheap wine. It was an opportunistic thing. There were real gangsters around too. In the 60s, the Puerto Ricans and blacks were coming in like there was no tomorrow. 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. Back in the early days, we used to have a habit of snatching their hats. 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 have very fond memories of all the people I met there. The parents always got along, and we always respected their parents and they respected our parents. We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. The guys and I would go and take it and strip the parts off and hed get his insurance. In the summer we were always out there, like 15 or 20 of us, sitting on the steps in summer, drinking beer, and bullshitting. Wed get harassed by the cops all the time, but then again, that was a time when if you had a fight on the street, the cops would grab you, kick you in the ass, and send you on your way like, Get outta here. Rumors often swept Bronx high schools in the 1950s and 1960s that "the Baldies were coming" to confront the student body, at the generally docile Bronx High School of Science and the more macho, all-male DeWitt Clinton High School. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. A lot of my buddies went in. Sometimes wed say, Come on up. Belmont Avenue, near East 189th Street. I snorted it, sometimes I shot it, but not often. We didnt even have to do anything. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. Egyptian Dragons". They werent allowed to date outside girls. Before that, date rape was the usual. We were in the papers more than the president. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. That happened a lot. You could find it in the grocery store if you wanted it bad enough. 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. The South 9th Bikers turf was around Broadway, from like where the BQE starts at Havemeyer to what was called Jew Town, where the Hasidics start. I carried a .25, then later a 9 mm. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. Anybody who had a Boy after their nameJohnny Boy, Frankie Boythey were always in trouble, cause they were always trying to prove they were a man. Having an Active Minds Chapter in your school can be an important step in changing the conversation about mental health. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. Puerto Ricans were moving into East Harlem at greater rates as the 1950s progressed. Heroin was the drug of choice. The gangs -- with names such as the Ducky Boys, Del Bombers and Fordham Baldies (who really are bald) -- are racially segregated. Not many fights broke out there. It got to a point where a gang called the Fordham Baldieswho were like the biggest Italian gang in the Bronxheard about us and came down and made us a brother club. 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. You wanna have a game of football? or sometimes wed say, F youse, were gonna come down and kick your asses. When we were drinking, wed scream down at them, Hey, you fuckin black bastards! Wed say something racial, you know? He died in a tragic fuckin condition. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. You have it all. They. And sometimes it didnt. Thats the way the neighborhood was. When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. Or you find them in a car, dead. Once again, I wanted to go out with someone who was in that gang. I never shot up. I left it, but recommend changing that line. Dion, whose last name is DiMucci, had been a member of the Bronx, New York street gang the Fordham Baldies when he joined musical forces with Carlo Mastrangelo, Freddy Milano, and Angelo D'Aleo, who were part of a rival gang, the Imperial Hoods. of the day,' black leather jackets dungarees and boots. However, when they got there, the Fordham Baldies who had been frequenting Orchard Beach on a regular basis, found out the Red Wings were hanging out on Section 17 of the beach. Actually, I wish I could go back a couple years. 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. When I was in Spanish Harlem, the guys in gangs wore silk jackets with their name on the front and the club name on the back. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams Unknown Bikers were just big in Williamsburg, South 9 Bikers the same. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. These are the people that we grew up with. By the time Henry and Stephanie reached junior high school, gangs were becoming an issue, particularly the Fordham Baldies. Wed get high and go into the city. 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. Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. Thats how the whole biker thing came about first. There was always some guy who got beat up and they took the sweater and we had to go find out who took it and get it back. Our drug of choice then was heroin. Our big thing was buying cough medicine. Their leader is Terror, a 6'6", 400-pound monster of a man. The ones that didnt go in are the ones that died along the way. We had a gang that started in high school. They werent pussies. 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. I remember my first encounter with a drive-by. We spent a night one time stripping a whole car completely down to the chassis. You usually carried a knife, something to protect you. I was maybe 16. 42nd Street was like a neutral area, unless you ran into clubs from different boroughs. You have to flip your colors. They started getting nasty. The landlord wasnt going to come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass. Youd be saying, I dont give a shit who you are, calling the club out. I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. It was like 50 cents a bottle. It didnt begin as a crime thing. On a warm Saturday night, wed all be up on the hill. On the next block, one block past Bushwick Avenue, was Aberdeen Park. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. The 70s was real nice. We went to the same school and we were all young. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. The Wanderers (1979) - The Fordham Baldies MOV Clips 31.8K subscribers Subscribe 178 25K views 2 years ago American comedy-drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Ken Wahl,. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. Side Story. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. A lot of the guys would be with their girlfriends. Little by little the white gang broke up. It made his brain all fucked-up. 90K views 13 years ago Gang turf of the Corona Dukes, Arthur Avenue Boys, and the Fordham Baldies. He was invincible. It was a bunch of detectives whose primary job was to try and keep tabs on the gangs and see what was going on. I was always aware. They banded together too, and thats the way it went. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has . I got locked up with another friend of mine. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. A lot of guys got hurt, and a couple a guys got hurt really bad. A lot of shit went on. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. Was a wild time growing up, some bad, some good, but many learning experiences came from those times. People hustled their money. The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. He suffers from asthma. Italians were Italians in those days. Apparently Mario and Ernest looked very much alike and although Mario didnt discuss the death of his brother, it was something that Marios son always knew about. Why you crying? You know whyyou shot my brother. It was crazy. I wound up doing like 13 years and change in jail. They were with them most of the day. The biggest place we would go was the Starship. 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 . It doesnt get any worse than that. 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. Mostly we drank wine. It was a gangster neighborhood. They Now, everybody else has a bike. At the end they looked like gladiators. They talked about it, shook hands, and then we were brother clubs. The guys in the restaurants were cool with us, and in return, we took care of them. I got my head split open with a piano leg one night too. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. I guess some guys, you know, went with them. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. The Micheal Farmer killing was an incident that happened during the showing of West 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. After a while, I realized that theynot just them, other clubs toowere being paid by the landlords to burn the buildings for the insurance. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. It could more than double in size at that point. It wasnt too hard to see the handwriting on the wall. Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. Chemistry Faculty. There were six of them and two of us. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. A lot of them I met through fighting with them. All these people laying down on cots and shit, with these pipes, and one guy tending them. A lot of times, people would come back all beat up and bruised. Read more about Bronx Gangs (1950s1960s): Popular Culture, who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Batteryto holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and childrenbrought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain and drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo,Allen Ginsberg (b. The Woodside Chiefs were a Pop Warner, multi-division, football team from 1955 thru 1965. 1926), Words gane to the kitchen,And words gane to the ha,That Marie Hamilton gangs wi bairnTo the hichest Stewart of a.Unknown. The apartments were filled with rats and roaches, we had no heat or hot water half the time, pipes were falling down, ceilings were leaking. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. If you dont do it, youre not part of the crew. On any given weekend night, as you reached the 'balcony', you started the Ducky 'whistle'. We were fighting with everybody. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! If anyone stepped in, (stepped out of turn) he was accounted for verbally and brutally. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. After a few of them you could do anything. Nobody would fuck with us. It would scare people. We spent a couple nights in jail. They became my brothers and sisters. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. I'll always have the memories of those times. A close knit group that consisted mainly of blacks and Puerto Ricans, Then they got out of the cars a second time and the guy ran away and Frankie ran after him. The University also supports a number of club sports, and a significant intramural . At that point, all everybody wanted to do was sell drugs. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. It was because of who you were. This is my hood. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. We went to Our Lady of Lourdes Grammar School on Aberdeen Street. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. Both Frank and Vincent were packing fully loaded automatic pistols. They gave my brother a summons, and I stood in jail for a decade and change. To this day, we still hang out, and wed do anything for each other. We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. So wed take the apartment over. 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. It started as a dance club, and as things happened in the clubarguments and fightsit became a gang. Mario felt partially responsible for his brothers death and it was something that troubled him for his entire life. Wrong place, wrong time. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). I never wore colors. This was our life. When you left your house you had to worry about somebody grabbing you and kicking your ass. I also had to fight some of the guys in the club. If anything, wed protect them. I caught a few. I mean, I know I never did it. From Spanish Harlem, we moved to the South Bronx. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. If you remember the scene where they tied a rope to the penises of two guys on a bridge and threw a cinder block over the side down to the a river, that was the Bronx River near French Charlie's baseball field. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. It was the stomping grounds of both the real-life Fordham Baldies gang, immortalized by Richard Price in The Wanderers, as well as where then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed a. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The This was from a roof maybe four stories up. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. It was something for show. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? The official athletics website for the Fordham University Rams We were always armed. I used to walk around with a gun every day. But it wasnt like they asked us to. Any girl that wasnt a virgin, if you went out with her you couldnt let her get away, because there werent many around. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. 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. This event took place in Washington Heights, Then, you know, the blacks started coming in and naturally there was tension and we banded together. had zip-guns. I used to steal a lot from factories. I never jumped anybody. The battle lines between opposing armies had already Back in those days, we always had a clubhouse. A car can sit on the street two or three days today. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's Belmont Avenue. Fordham Baldies is on Facebook. You stick a car antenna in it and file down the part that you cock backthe hammer. Your chances of going to jail were even worse. I never did, but I know there were guys in the gang that did. We had nobody left, so we said, Whats the use in fighting? We got to the point where we got older, we had girlfriends, we started getting cars, and we left the neighborhood. Fourth, sources.I will be doing some more research and adding much more information. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. It was a black guy who did it to him, in a fight over a girl. If I had to stick you, I would stick you. You could also take a chimney apartgrab a couple bricks and throw those. "I was a member of that Ducky gang, did some streetsmart growing up with them. We burned fires in the tunnels in the winter to stay warm, and we went swimming in the Bronx river when it was hot. Now they were even stronger, hardened by. 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