He lived like that for a long time. Thats where the money was. Wed fire at a guy standing three feet away, and wed miss. That was right before the Kennedy assassination. It feels bad. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. That was all tongue in cheek. I go to a funeral now and I dont even cry. For everybodyespecially our people but even for strangers, what we called Merigans, like Ameriganswe had respect for all of them. SM28, Mount Carmel Candy Store Home of the Best New York Egg Creams. For each institution, films are listed by release date, starting with the most recent. 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. 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. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! When we were on Lee Avenue there was this black guy. Even some of the names used are real. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available! I was 13 or 14 when I started. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. If you want to see somebodys colors, you walk around the back and look at them. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. We also used the 'whistle' as an all clear after the cops had given up chasing us around and it was safe to come back out. Like 12 or 13. I would go anywhere Jews worked because on Fridays, they cant put on the light, the air conditioning, nothing. At its centre is Italian-American kid Richie (Ken Wahl) who is one of. Was a wild time growing up, some bad, some good, but many learning experiences came from those times. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. Jumping back in Giampettruzzis Cadillac, the five Red Wings headed back to Orchard Beach. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. On any given weekend night, as you reached the 'balcony', you started the Ducky 'whistle'. I never shot up. All these people laying down on cots and shit, with these pipes, and one guy tending them. I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. Why you crying? You know whyyou shot my brother. It was crazy. We gotta watch our back. Youd bring a girl with you so she could hold the gun. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. who descended on Micheal Farmer in the city owned: Highbridge swimming pool, whom they perceived We all got along. When wed fight with the black guys, it was more or less hit and run. They were with them most of the day. At the same time, Henry remembers . If anything, wed protect them. Thats how I used to get my money. The year given is the year of the film's release or first season of the series. My mentality wasnt, I have to join that gang. It was, I like the guy, the guy likes me. Before you knew it, I married the president of the gang. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. I knew so many people that everybody would open their doors for me. Eventually, if you hung out in that neighborhood you tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into town. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. Inside, sipping a soda, was Ernest Montuoro. I got locked up with another friend of mine. They. Little by little the white gang broke up. He was able to shed some light on his father Mario and how he felt about Ernests death at the hands of the Red Wings. the Saracen Lords and the Nobles. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. The landlord wasnt going to come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. You wanted to teach him a lesson. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. We were in the papers more than the president. Now, everybody else has a bike. areas at 8 PM. And then when youre like 13 or 14, you start to hang out a little bit and the older guys start to notice you and start to talk to you and before you knew it youd been groomed into what they were. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. In fact, sometimes the girls would rumble with other clubs without the guys knowing. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. that Farmer was a member of a rival gang called "The Jesters" (It's not known whether or not Farmer was a gang member thougheven to this day). His laugh reflex got fucked-up. By todays standards, there would have been a lot more lawsuits. Also, we used to have a lot of gay guys come around and theyd get us a couple pills, some marijuana, and bullets for our zip guns. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. 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. Bernard Caleo and Angelo DiVincenzo were seated on the stoop in front of the candy store, unaware of what was about to happen. All of them met violent deaths. They were going back to the Bronx to pay the Baldies a visit they would never forget. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. Wed get high and go into the city. We just got along. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams The Viceroys were a Puerto Rican gang from 103rd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues. The Fordham Baldies were one of the gangs featured in the movie "The Wanderer". We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. 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. FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? Life magazine ran a big story on us. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. Want to go to the college that inspired <i>Animal House</i>? Hell no. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. With a peculiar frequency, a click of the cable remote shows the Fordham Baldies hanging out at the corner of Fordham Road and Grand Concourse, the foot chase through 1963 central Bronx alleyways . NYC Youth Gangs - 1950s. They were all afraid of us. 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. The guys and I would go and take it and strip the parts off and hed get his insurance. First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. But I stole. Thats when we started realizing that we had lost the numbers. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. It was a black guy who did it to him, in a fight over a girl. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. You know, you pull it out or you just display it, and people say, OK, were not gonna mess around. Most of the time when you would shoot, you did it not to hurt somebody, but to scare them. You came, you hung out, you drank a bottle of wine, you went crazy like everybody else. 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. It was a two-way thing. Here is what Piggys Candy Store looks like today now it appears to be an Islamic school. Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. But I wasnt there, I just wound up getting accused of it. 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 . The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. To Manhattan, then back across the bridge, and once we got to Brooklyn they would just split off to their side and wed keep driving to our side, like it was nothing. By the time they got there, however, the Baldies had left for their regular hangout on Belmont Ave a candy store called Piggys, hanging out and lolling about on the stoop. So Id go back to the club, feed myself, feed my man and whoever else was there. Sometimes wed say, Come on up. We were sitting on the corner of Longwood, drinking beer, and this particular club came by and started shooting. And the drugs? The Spanish guys were different. The official athletics website for the Fordham University Rams It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. Go home. 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. We had a riot on Fulton Street one time, and thats what we did. Side Story. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. When they started with the knives, we started with the zip guns. On a warm Saturday night, wed all be up on the hill. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? Rivals: Allerton Avenue gang, Parkside gang, and the Wanderers gang. When I stepped off the train, I saw all these abandoned buildings, and every night there were the sirens of the fire trucks, and people being displaced, crying, no place to go. So thats how it happened. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. You had the Dirty Ones up by Graham Avenue. A lot of guys got hurt, and a couple a guys got hurt really bad. This was on Fulton and Rockaway, a half block from my house. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. The gangs started separating. So this guy started going off with everybody. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. We could see them from the hill. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. But as things started to change and people started with the drugs, making money off of it, a lot of violence erupted. After the Kennedy assassination, somebody opened up the door and let the drugs in. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). These were all pretty much in the same area and were all converted store fronts with bars. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. They punctured his lung and he almost died. That was when the neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Italian. But yeah, I broke into every factory. Theyd hang around. I also had to fight some of the guys in the club. I never robbed anybody. Little Italy was strictly Italian. The biggest place we would go was the Starship. John Gotti, too. This guy Frankie Boy was my best friend because he was really tough and I wasnt. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. The 70s was real nice. I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. The bond between people who were in gangs was amazing. Everybody knew who we were. The balcony on 204th and the 'tunnels', and the whole area surrounding Twin Lakes was our turf! Coke was popular when it first came out, but heroin was the drug of choice because it was a better high. All the gangs recognized and even esteemed one another showing respect. We burned fires in the tunnels in the winter to stay warm, and we went swimming in the Bronx river when it was hot. 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 was always aware. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. At that point, all everybody wanted to do was sell drugs. Their leader is Terror, a 6'6", 400-pound monster of a man. The Brooklyn clubs were OK, but the clubs from the Bronx and Queensthe Savage Skulls, the Nomadsthey could cause some problems. If the cops wanted to see who was who, they just had to look there on Friday and Saturday night because everybody wore their patches, all dressed up down to their boots. We had a clubhouse. If they caught you, you were going to get an ass whuppin. And we used to ride over to East 3rd in Manhattan, to the Hells Angels, and visit with them and whatnot. I always sniffed. Did it help? Naturally, there were a lot of shot-up people. We didnt even have to do anything. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. I mean, I know I never did it. I never jumped anybody. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. Ducking from shootouts and things like that. So after a while, he would make an apartment available to us. The battle lines between opposing armies had already You know what beer muscles are, right? They werent very accurate, either. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. It wasnt too hard to see the handwriting on the wall. If youre in my club, I take you at face value. Fordham Baldies: As their name suggests, they are all bald, reportedly to prevent their hair from getting in their eyes during a fight. If I had to stick you, I would stick you. 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. There was nothing you could do about it. He was invincible. It was also common for someone to be walking down the street, and a car would stop, and a bunch of guys would jump out and beat on him. A couple times, wed take somebody down there and leave em, maybe tied up, and he had to get out by himself. We were never really into robbing people. I left my mothers house when I was 14. We came into a lot of weapons at an early time. You get high. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. I would say, three out of every five shootouts, somebody would get hit. 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. They werent really that strong of a weapon. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. I got arrested October 1980, came home December 1993. Wed drink Night Train. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. We ran out of a restaurant without paying one time, ran down into this building, and they had like catacombs. Any girl that wasnt a virgin, if you went out with her you couldnt let her get away, because there werent many around. In fact, we protected people. Wasnt too much of a fight. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. I told him to open the garbage can, one of those big silver ones, and I went in there, and I told him to put everything on top of me and put the lid on. So there wasnt one particular reason. Pichon, President of the original Latin Kings of Highbridge Park, '63, currently living in the West Coast. If they wandered to our side of the park, Bronx Park East or we into their side there was trouble. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. Its much harsher than coke. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. had zip-guns. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. I swear to God. I wound up doing like 13 years and change in jail. I guess some guys, you know, went with them. Everything started out with sweaters. They talked about it, shook hands, and then we were brother clubs. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. Forget about iteverywhere you went, every corner, the drugs were there. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. That happened a lot. Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. He couldnt show up to collect his rent. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. One summer, we got into it with the Spanish gang. About a month later, when he got out of the hospital, they invaded us again. Girls drank free. We spent a couple nights in jail. I'll always have the memories of those times. DiVincenzos elbow took another bullet, which passed through his arm. In fact, all three people who were involved in the murder ended up dying within three years of it. I was like, What the hell is this? Then, slowly but surely, I started to gravitate towards them. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. 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. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in Wed eat, drink wine, hang out, bullshit, discuss what we were going to do that day, whether we were going to go visit another club or if there was going to be some kind of party. Search . We started saying, Why dont we make patches? And finally we did. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. You lived in one building, and the buildings to your left and right were abandoned, because they were gutted out by fires. We were fighting with everybody. Everything was about turf. Sometimes. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. Your chances of going to jail were even worse. Everybody else ran. Interestingly, this second nephew of Ernests that emailed me works just a few miles from where Ernest was shot and killed. So we all hang out now, go to parties, things like that. Or you find them in a car, dead. DiVincenzo and Caleo were both members of the Baldies but had no criminal record. 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 . Now all girls think giving a blowjob is nothing. Convicted Red Wings were Frank Ciappetta, Vincent Gugliemelli, Philip Bonanno, Jerry Santaniello and Frank Giampetruzzi. Baldies didn't shave their heads and in reality wore Ducks Ass hairdoos like The Fonz and were named after bald eagles? Me and a few other guys started making a lot of noise, you know, fighting all these other gangs. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. With that money Id buy wine and cigarettes. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. Often it was handled one on? They had high collars, buttoned down, and on the back you had RR. But we didnt really go out of our way too much with the sweaters and the costumes. Join Facebook to connect with Fordham Baldies and others you may know. And I think using full years instead of century description is better. I guess I was lucky. If it aint from close range, you just have to wait for the pellets to come out later. It was a gangster neighborhood. The Majestics started in the early 70s. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. From time to time, wed bump into them and theyd make fun of us like, Hey, we got your park. We made sure nobody messed with them. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. The Woodside Chiefs, teenage boys, were self funded. You won. There were no real initiations. We were trying to imitate them. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. A lot of them I met through fighting with them. I've watched the movie The Wanderers each time it's been on, and still get a kick out of how the Ducky gang was supposed to be represented. The Dukes were on Roebling and South 3rd, over to South 1st. He left behind a wife and child. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. I saw him on the corner at South 10th and Bedford, and I started shooting. The next time you went to the club, theyd be there and it would be like, Oh, we had a fight with these guys last time. Mario felt partially responsible for his brothers death and it was something that troubled him for his entire life. We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. Overdosed, stuff like that. 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. I left in Mean Streets temporarily, but I am pretty sure that the Little Italy it depicted was Manhattan's, and therefore it should be out as well. Lot of guys went to jail. Basically, the Dirty Ones was the only gang that was friendly with us. We hung around Aberdeen Park. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. Their members use racial epithets to describe their rivals. We were always there. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. 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Unless you also plan on making an article for the early 20th century, I'd suggest you leave of 'mid'. Now they were even stronger, hardened by. Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. Mostly it was breaking into factories in Brooklyn. This was found to be a nice touch in the Wanderers movie, but in reality, the Fordham Baldies were named for the bald eagle and had the duck's ass or "D.A." hairstyle later made famous by . lol" Another former gang member from the Garrisons had this to say about the Duckies: "If you were planning to visit the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx you needed to concern yourself with the "Duck(ie)s." Legend has it, if you are visiting the Bronx Botanical Gardens and blast out a 'Duckie Whistle', Duckies will show up to greet you till this day! Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. 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. Nobody fights to hurt anymore. But down in Chinatown, you could buy a tin of cocaine snuff for 25 cents. Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. I was too young to know much about them, except that everyone was afraid of them. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. Nobody would fuck with us. Everybody else had to shoot, because we already were. The Ducky was not predominantly irish or anything else, but yes, we were certainly a 'large' group. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. It was two carloads of the fellas, just headed toward the block, coming from Greenpoint. We would let him go because he was with his girl. He died in a tragic fuckin condition. Then, you know, the blacks started coming in and naturally there was tension and we banded together. Colors are more respected than your whole family. After I received this email, I received yet another email, this time from Ernests niece who has some stories to share about Ernest that her father shared with her. 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. 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. Prostitution was everywhere too. I think I was under that car for half an hour, until I heard my guys yelling my name. When I did get arrested, my little brothermay he rest in peacehe was involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bronx_gangs_(1950s1960s)&oldid=1101692437, This redirect does not require a rating on the project's, This page was last edited on 1 August 2022, at 09:49. And I tell you, that was a fuckin fight. It doesnt get any worse than that. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. I carried a .25, then later a 9 mm. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. 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. You come running through the building with the cops after you and you could run into any door. So wed take the apartment over. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. That was the year when it started getting real serious. The only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. It didnt begin as a crime thing. Im 46 now and Im still with this thing. He used to shake when he walked and shit like that. I never wore Property of. In the gang, the girls used to have to wear Property of on their jackets. Astoria. Thats all I ever wanted to do. He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. Caleo took another bullet just about the left buttock, near his belt line. It was just that I started hanging out over here more than over at the other side. 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. He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. And they wouldnt flip colors. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. NYC. For about ten minutes the two groups faced off against each other, calling each other names, threatening each other, and in the Baldies case, jeering Bella. It was because of who you were. Today, thats what the gangs call itthe Bloods, the Crips, all of them, they call it flagging: I die for my flag. There were some crazy kids, though. Teenage Gangs Kill One, Injure Six: one shot and killed, one stabbed, and four beaten in a gang fight Ballistics work being done on Piggys Candy Store. 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