And that would touch it off right away, because theyd start yelling back at us, and before you knew it, wed be running down on the railroad tracks, theyd be running up. I lost my virginity at like 14. We hung around Aberdeen Park. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. With that money Id buy wine and cigarettes. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. bayonets, brass knuckles, and garrison belts before officers swoop They became my brothers and sisters. I never shot up. But as things started to change and people started with the drugs, making money off of it, a lot of violence erupted. In fact, we protected people. We could see them from the hill. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. Then they got out of the cars a second time and the guy ran away and Frankie ran after him. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. The Viceroys were a Puerto Rican gang from 103rd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues. Often it was handled one on? We were in the papers more than the president. I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. In 1957, the Viceroys stabbed and killed an Enchanter. 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. He was so fuckin mad he didnt pay attention, and the guy went around the corner and when Frankie came after him, he was waiting, and hit him with a two-by-fourwhamright across the head. If anything, wed protect them. This was 1960 through 1962. There were no drugs then. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. I got into the gangs very, very early. I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. You won. Before we started getting high on dope, we were sniffing glue. Our program is free and empowers youth to champion mental health advocacy and awareness with their peers. You have every type of person in every club. The guys and I would go and take it and strip the parts off and hed get his insurance. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. But thats the way they did it in those days. You just couldnt believe it. We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. The bond between people who were in gangs was amazing. So it worked both ways. 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." That happened a lot. The reputation of the Baldies name had preceded them and the mere mention of Baldies, was good enough to get everyone worried about an impending gang attack. It started as a dance club, and as things happened in the clubarguments and fightsit became a gang. There were like 20 of us. 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. In 1959, a member of the Dragons was killed in a fight with the Viceroys. But back then, if you had a girlfriend, if you were getting laid, you were the king of the mountain. The University also supports a number of club sports, and a significant intramural . Astoria. 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. We would hang out in these abandoned buildings that we had electricity running into. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. John Gotti, too. In the 60s, the Puerto Ricans and blacks were coming in like there was no tomorrow. You lived in an apartment with four rooms and four people, and it was so close that you really lived in the street because you had to get out of the house. The Spanish guys were different. This was on Fulton and Rockaway, a half block from my house. It didnt begin as a crime thing. "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. Everyone pleaded not-guilty and a trial proceeded the following year in April 1955. Plus, if you had a leather jacket on and I shot you, chances are the bullet wouldnt even go through the jacket. There were some crazy kids, though. The story is really about our group of friends, our football team and yes, a rival crowd on the other side of Bronx Park. You could also take a chimney apartgrab a couple bricks and throw those. It went right through his forearm. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. Interestingly, this second nephew of Ernests that emailed me works just a few miles from where Ernest was shot and killed. We all got along. They yell one word in Yiddish, and everybody comes out the woodwork. We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. They were a big crewwhite gang, mostly Italian. I lived on Fulton and Rockaway, which was home to another crew, the Fulton and Rockaway Boys. A couple times, wed take somebody down there and leave em, maybe tied up, and he had to get out by himself. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. So our style of dress and everything was like them. Then you tie the hammer up with rubber bands, pull it back, and let it go. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. Like if we were walking down the street and we saw one of the Spanish guys with his girlfriend, we wouldnt beat him up. We had a lot of guys in the gangsometimes we had 40, sometimes we had 60, sometimes we had 100. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. 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. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams We buried each others brothers too much. 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. It also made us brother clubs with the Redwings, who were in East Harlem. I proposed some sections, but there is still lots of work to be done. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. 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. Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. 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. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. Was a wild time growing up, some bad, some good, but many learning experiences came from those times. A loosely organized street gang with fewer than 60 members and a name inspired by a cartoon has taken on near-mythical status among high school students in New York City, the police and school. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. Big deal.. "When they were shooting the recruiting scene with the Fordham Baldies," Price recalled, "the actors were hanging out on the intersection of the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road right by Alexander's Department Store and Loew's Paradise, this massive Moorish movie palace. Thats how popular heroin was. 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. You could find it in the grocery store if you wanted it bad enough. I would break into the sweater factory, the clothes factory, the pillow factory I even broke into a coffin factory one day. After that it was acidPurple Haze. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. What they had at that time was called the Youth Squad. The gangs started separating. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. It was like 50 cents a bottle. The Woodside Chiefs, teenage boys, were self funded. By the way, there were always fights yet it was all handled with reverence, one on one. Back then, if a car sat for a day, wed strip it. All of us went to school together. Ballistics work being done on Piggys Candy Store. So there wasnt one particular reason. There was one Irish kid, I think, and one black kid. The Brooklyn clubs were OK, but the clubs from the Bronx and Queensthe Savage Skulls, the Nomadsthey could cause some problems. We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. Because of this gang fights between the two groups became the norm. Then another five would do another dance routine, and it became like a fucking dance-off. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. They were with them most of the day. 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. Once again, I wanted to go out with someone who was in that gang. If youre in my club, I take you at face value. *Click on Fullscreen to see the full trial minutes*. One of the Red Wings yelled out, Are you the Fordham Baldies? At hearing this, Bernard, Angelo and Ernest approached the vehicle, standing about seven feet from the curb. Gang wars were very infrequent and when they did occur hardly ever was there any firearms used. Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. Then of course the cops picked up on it, and it got to be really tough. When they got back to East Harlem, they dropped off Hall, Bella and DePetris, but picked up two new Red Wings, Frank Ciappetta and Vincent Gugliemelli. Although the Jewish residents of East Harlem moved to other areas of NYC, they stayed in the neighborhood to sell their wares, either door to door, or via a storefront business. We were fighting with everybody. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. They said, Why should I buy drugs to sell when I can steal his and sell them? It happened all the time. Even today, in 2012, the Fordham Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to. We were all hanging out together already, the Unknowns and the South 9s. I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. He had hair just like mussolini in real life, and I'm the princess of canada although I can't offically back that up with paperwork. 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. Everybody else had to shoot, because we already were. They had a lotta heart. They thought I had control over their leader. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. Later on we had a clubhouse where wed hang out all the time. When you got caught doing something, they handcuffed you, took you down to the precinct, beat the shit outta ya, then took the information down. The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's Belmont Avenue. A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. All the gangs were there: The Sportsmen, that was a big black gang, pretty tough guys, and the Dragons, that was the Puerto Rican gang. I remember them strutting their stuff on the boardwalk dressed in black bikini bathing suits with red piping. That was it. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. The son made it seem like it was a burglary, and we made off with all his weapons. I got in, it was dark, and then when I put on the light all I saw was coffins, so I ran out. at a dance between the Lucky Lords and the Counts. Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. Bernard Caleo and Angelo DiVincenzo were seated on the stoop in front of the candy store, unaware of what was about to happen. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. I swear to God. On a warm Saturday night, wed all be up on the hill. 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. It made his brain all fucked-up. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The That was when the Bronx was burning. I also had to fight some of the guys in the club. When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. After a while, I realized that theynot just them, other clubs toowere being paid by the landlords to burn the buildings for the insurance. The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. At the same time, Henry remembers . The battle lines between opposing armies had already He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. I used to steal a lot from factories. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. one fistfights and it would be over. 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. --rocketrye12 talk/contribs 03:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I moved it to Bronx gangs (mid-twentieth century), please mind your capitalization. That was a typical night. Our drug of choice then was heroin. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. I could make up to $20. 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. I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. 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. You know what beer muscles are, right? FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available! Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. Fordham Baldies: As their name suggests, they are all bald, reportedly to prevent their hair from getting in their eyes during a fight. It was on 42nd between Eighth and Ninth in the back of a parking lot. It was like one big family. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. 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. After that I knew it was nothing serious, so I never bothered to go to the hospital. I started hanging out with the Unknown Bikers around 1975, and I became one in 1976. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. I never believed in that, so I never did it. Who was I supposed to hang out with? If you had war with somebody, then you could walk around their block wearing your colors, trying to be funny. You came, you hung out, you drank a bottle of wine, you went crazy like everybody else. We had like one pistol, and that was for everybody, because every now and then you had a confrontation that would require it. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. It doesnt get any worse than that. All of them met violent deaths. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. Back in those days, we always had a clubhouse. Girls drank free. 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. I think he got arrested. Life magazine ran a big story on us. I go to a funeral now and I dont even cry. But you can find where it was filmed on this list. We had colorsblue sweaters. Every time he came by the block there was a shootout, so everybody was always aware when he was passing by. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. And I tell you, that was a fuckin fight. This event took place in Washington Heights, Not every club was friendly. The problem with the Bronx in 1978 was there were real gangs. 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. formed. 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. Little by little the white gang broke up. I doubt anyone walking down the street knew that in 1954 Ernest was killed and Bernard and Angelo were severely injured in a gang war. What do you think?--rocketrye12 talk/contribs 04:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], Sorry, didn't see this discussion - I changed the name to Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s) because that is specifically what is being discussed. It was where I was going to end up, whether I wanted to or not. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. Theres still a lot of people around. I didnt take no shit from nobody. 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. We started saying, Why dont we make patches? And finally we did. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. Now they were even stronger, hardened by. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. If you dont do it, youre not part of the crew. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. I went into the service in 66. 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. The Micheal Farmer killing was an incident that happened during the showing of West There would be 20 or 25 of them and 20 or 25 of us. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. We were just crooks, you know what I mean? It goes something like this: While at school, a rumour makes the rounds that the Baldies are coming to the school (insert school name here). Students are in an uproar and are on pins and needles, waiting for a Baldy invasion. Just passing through. That was when the neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Italian. Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. We never really had any problem with the Hasidics. Unknown Bikers were just big in Williamsburg, South 9 Bikers the same. Lots of guys were fucking up, but all I wanted was to have our club, and for everybody to have bikes and go places together and ride. I never wore Property of. In the gang, the girls used to have to wear Property of on their jackets. Pichon, President of the original Latin Kings of Highbridge Park, '63, currently living in the West Coast. Back in the early days, we used to have a habit of snatching their hats. I snorted it, sometimes I shot it, but not often. The only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. Mostly we drank wine. I had a very bad temper back then. 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. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. These are the people that we grew up with. Inside, sipping a soda, was Ernest Montuoro. DiVincenzo and Caleo were both members of the Baldies but had no criminal record. 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. But yeah, I broke into every factory. And sometimes it didnt. Any gear you could put on, no matter how hot or cold it was, you went to 42nd and wore your colors proudly. 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. That means turn your jacket around or take it off. That was all tongue in cheek. Thats when we were first coming up. About Us Site Map Contact Us Great American Youth Book Lords Of Kilbourn Book, Greaser Magazine: "Rising Up Angry:" Stone Greaser Grapevine, Debbie Kozlarek/Carolyn Vandermolen Murders, The Teddy Girls Gang - Great Britain 1950s, Mighty Zulu Nation, Universal Zulu Nation Gang history, Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War, SBB Garfield Boys verses Red Hook Tigers article, Brass Knuckle Tales 50's Street Gang Looks Back, Jimmy the Gent Burke Rest in Peace Article, Harlem Red Wings/Northmen Street Gang article. Ernests son is now 58 years old and just now found out about his familys history in New York City. Theres a lot of people walking around messed up to this day, and a lot of people dead. That was East New York. This page is not available in other languages. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. I guess I was lucky. We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. 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. Forget about iteverywhere you went, every corner, the drugs were there. Search . banerjee@fordham.edu. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. I mean, I know I never did it. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. Italians were Italians in those days. We went down one night, had a fight with them, and Ill never forget it: We chased them all the way down Evergreen Avenue, and all of a sudden about 60 or 70 of them came out of a house. They punctured his lung and he almost died. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. They were going back to the Bronx to pay the Baldies a visit they would never forget. If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. Everything was about turf. But there were some of us who had everything a kid could have. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. 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. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were charged with 2nd Degree Murder and the others with 1st Degree Manslaughter. We ran out of a restaurant without paying one time, ran down into this building, and they had like catacombs. Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. Puerto Ricans were moving into East Harlem at greater rates as the 1950s progressed. From the Jewish girls mostly, not from Catholic girlsnot when I was a kid. One time we were having a fight and we had a couple of guys up on a roof. We were always there. He left behind a wife and child. Baldies wounded.Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War. Violence back then, if you put it on a scale, Id say it was about a seven. And then it got built up even more. It was an abandoned building. All the defendants were found guilty and the shooters Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were sent to prison for twenty years. If somebody says, Oh, let me see your colors, turn around, its not something you do. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. I lived in abandoned buildings with them. If you walked by somebodys block, they would chase you, shoot at you, and beat you down if they caught you. A 25 year-old hanger- BRONX, UPTOWN SPADES,HARLEM TURKETTES, SATAN ANGELS, SAVAGE SKULLS, ROYAL JAVILINS, GESTAPO CREW, THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION, and THE REAPERS 1ST DIV/MAIN DIV/ AND Juniors. A lot of guys got hurt, and a couple a guys got hurt really bad. Eventually everybody said, Were not going to dance no more. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. Look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1940s... Second nephew of Ernests that emailed me works just a few miles where... Im 50 now, and she got killed few miles from fordham baldies was! 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