Then you had all these other little clubs in between. I proposed some sections, but there is still lots of work to be done. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. Everybody kept their eyes open. It made more money. Thats where the money was. The fordam baldies aka belmont baldies aka baldie mob shaved their heads as far back as the 1940's and hung out at a candy store on belmont between 189th and fordham. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. But I stole. That was my opportunity. He got killed a few years later. Bellagio99 20:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Its something you die for, like a flag. If anything, wed protect them. You have your murderers, your rapists, your thieves. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. 90K views 13 years ago Gang turf of the Corona Dukes, Arthur Avenue Boys, and the Fordham Baldies. Plus, if you had a leather jacket on and I shot you, chances are the bullet wouldnt even go through the jacket. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. By todays standards, there would have been a lot more lawsuits. 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. 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. So after a while, he would make an apartment available to us. DiVincenzos elbow took another bullet, which passed through his arm. Our program is free and empowers youth to champion mental health advocacy and awareness with their peers. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. That freaked me out. We all got along. That was all tongue in cheek. 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. The Fordham Baldies in a way were my first singing group, They would back up my singing and guitar playing in my Bronx Neighborhood, Schoolyard Parties, Our Clubroom Dances,1956, 1957 You had the Dirty Ones up by Graham Avenue. Wasnt too much of a fight. I think he got arrested. The biggest place we would go was the Starship. The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. I was first in a gang when I lived in East Harlem. I never believed in that, so I never did it. In 1959, a member of the Dragons was killed in a fight with the Viceroys. If they wandered to our side of the park, Bronx Park East or we into their side there was trouble. Wed drink Night Train. on/associate of the Baldies was killed--shot to the head, and two Now, everybody else has a bike. Coke was popular when it first came out, but heroin was the drug of choice because it was a better high. Who the hell knows whats in your brain? There were no real initiations. We were just crooks, you know what I mean? I wasnt hit too often. 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. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. I saw him on the corner at South 10th and Bedford, and I started shooting. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. Thats the way the neighborhood was. I didnt do that. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. I mean, these girls could fight. Everyone pleaded not-guilty and a trial proceeded the following year in April 1955. The Red Wings with Frank that June 1 were John Hall, Louis DePetris, Philip Bonnano, Jerry Santaniello and a girl only known as Bella. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. Chemistry Faculty. When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. I caught a few. 42nd Street was like Mecca, where all the gangs would hang out on Friday night. 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. That was a typical day. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. This guy Frankie Boy was my best friend because he was really tough and I wasnt. A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. He suffers from asthma. 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. Everybody fights to kill. One group gathered at PS 171 at 30th Ave and 14th Street, the other Eventually, if you hung out in that neighborhood you tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into town. It was about territory. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. We were never really into robbing people. The Spanish guys were different. That was the year when it started getting real serious. Big deal.. It made his brain all fucked-up. FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? We spent a couple nights in jail. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. Having an Active Minds Chapter in your school can be an important step in changing the conversation about mental health. Thats how I used to get my money. I buried three of my brothers because of being in gangs and being involved in drugs and living in the ghetto. Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. We were in the papers more than the president. I left my mothers house when I was 14. We were like, Nah, dont fuck with them. Me and him got along because there was no competition and we really loved each other. One of us would move out of a place, and ten families would move in. 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. And sometimes it didnt. 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. 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. So we all hang out now, go to parties, things like that. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. SM28, Mount Carmel Candy Store Home of the Best New York Egg Creams. I saw a lot of people get killed and a lot of people go to jail. You have every type of person in every club. Its much harsher than coke. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. Then of course the cops picked up on it, and it got to be really tough. We were fighting with everybody. We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. They help people out. Egyptian Dragons". His laugh reflex got fucked-up. We ran out of a restaurant without paying one time, ran down into this building, and they had like catacombs. I mean, I could have been arrested for date rape a million times. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. 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 Brooklyn clubs were OK, but the clubs from the Bronx and Queensthe Savage Skulls, the Nomadsthey could cause some problems. What was so funny was that a lot of the people were intermingled, family-wise. We were so fuckin' broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. Or you find them in a car, dead. Rivals: Allerton Avenue gang, Parkside gang, and the Wanderers gang. The '50s and '60's were a time when loyalty actually meant esteem, consequence, and prestige. He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. I never wore Property of. In the gang, the girls used to have to wear Property of on their jackets. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. Today, thats what the gangs call itthe Bloods, the Crips, all of them, they call it flagging: I die for my flag. In the summer we were always out there, like 15 or 20 of us, sitting on the steps in summer, drinking beer, and bullshitting. We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). On any given weekend night, as you reached the 'balcony', you started the Ducky 'whistle'. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! The memories are all roughly the same, or close to it. Two friends of mine once had to fight at Coney Island because thats where the argument happened. Thats the bottom line. Before the pill, you mostly just had blowjobs. I gave her two bucks and I came in about two seconds, then went home and jerked off ten times thinking about it. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. Now were going to wear these denim jackets with patches on them. And then all of a sudden, youd find yourself claiming a piece of Brooklyn as your fuckin real estate. We had no real guns, just the ones that we made, which were a joke. There were like 20 of us. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. I lived down the block from an armory, and there was a sergeant who would come every morning and buy seven bags of dope. It also made us brother clubs with the Redwings, who were in East Harlem. 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. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. It was two carloads of the fellas, just headed toward the block, coming from Greenpoint. He lived like that for a long time. 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. 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! People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. Us, the Chaplains, and the Spanish guys all got together and they gave us an ultimatum: Either we made peace or we were gonna start going to jail. We were trying to hide, actually, because the NYPD Youth Squad was always down here, asking us questions like who was who, and who was our leader. Big car, big wallet, and next thing you know theyre doing fifty years in jail. Dukes, as they were waiting for the "Chaplins" (Chaplains) to arrive. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. They knew it was my kid brother, but all the witnesses were saying it was me. Basically, the Dirty Ones was the only gang that was friendly with us. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price; its screenplay was written by Philip Kaufman and his wife Rose. Fourth, sources.I will be doing some more research and adding much more information. If we had a problem between us, wed all go meet over at City Hall and wear different color bandanas so people knew where you were from. People from the neighborhood never called the cops on us because we were never troublemakers. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. We had a riot on Fulton Street one time, and thats what we did. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The There was one place on South 9th where the landlordhe was a Hasidicsaw that as long as we were in the building, none of the tenants complained about the addicts burglarizing them or people shooting up in the hallways or on the roof or anything like that. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. Often it was handled one on? I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. By the time Henry and Stephanie reached junior high school, gangs were becoming an issue, particularly the Fordham Baldies. Some of the cops knew us too. This guys sister might be living with that guys brother, or you might have a kid with that guys sister. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. TRIKER1 (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply], I read the article twice and I still have no idea what most of it was talking about. I was a heroin addict from the age of maybe 13 to 17, but not like a falling-down addict. We sold it right on the street. The gangs started separating. They were knife-happy. They yell one word in Yiddish, and everybody comes out the woodwork. Their rivals were the Harlem Dragons, who killed one of their own in 1955.The Demons who they had vicious rumbles with. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Baldies wounded.Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War. 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. It didnt begin as a crime thing. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. Interestingly, this second nephew of Ernests that emailed me works just a few miles from where Ernest was shot and killed. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. 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. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. Joey DiMassi is leader of the Fordham Baldies, respected for his fairness and decency. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. The ending was tragic and if one were keeping score on such a grim topic, the Red Wings came out on top. 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. Oh yeah, and if you went down on a girl then, you couldnt walk around the neighborhood afterward. 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. 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. There would be a fight set up, and we told you to be there at seven oclock. True, that could be any college. 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,. They were going back to the Bronx to pay the Baldies a visit they would never forget. That was the end of him. And I tell you, it was a great fuckin scam. I was always aware. Life magazine ran a big story on us. Back then you just hung out with the right people. They didnt look like they bathed. Then you tie the hammer up with rubber bands, pull it back, and let it go. Over the course of one or two summers, they outnumbered us. Here is what Piggys Candy Store looks like today now it appears to be an Islamic school. Who was I supposed to hang out with? You went home, you needed a couple of stitches, you know, you went to the neighborhood drugstore, you got butterfly stitches. I started hanging out with the Unknown Bikers around 1975, and I became one in 1976. Bucks, the Gents and the Garrisons gangs. Naturally, there were a lot of shot-up people. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. 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 was a sanctuary, this rectangle here. 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 . Like I remember coming home and having my sister-in-law crying, and I would walk in the house and make believe I didnt know why. Chapter leaders, members, and advisors will be part of the Active Minds Chapter Network upon activation and will . They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. After the Kennedy assassination, somebody opened up the door and let the drugs in. We had like one pistol, and that was for everybody, because every now and then you had a confrontation that would require it. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. We hung around Aberdeen Park. Yeah, it was nice. 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. It looked like an epidemic had destroyed the place. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. 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. 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. They were like, Whos the president? and a couple of guys went over, and we had this truce. Then you had the Satans Souls for a while, who were on South 5th and Hoover. We went for the cheap wine. Did it help? Then you were on file. This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. And nobody could fuck with that. So a lot of guys ODd. Anyway, we werent vicious kids. We rumbled with their guys, and that started a war between the clubs. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. A famous quote about the Woodside Chiefs is in a book by Robert Timberg titled "State of Grace" Simon & Shuster, 2004. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. Even today, in 2012, the Fordham Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to. Everybody wants to make a name for themselves, a reputation. DiVincenzo and Caleo were both members of the Baldies but had no criminal record. I didnt take no shit from nobody. Everything was about turf. Jun.1, 1954 - Several Members of the Red Wings' gang from East Harlem drove to Fordham Baldies turf in the Bronx and shoot dead Ernest Montuoro after being insulted in a fracas at Orchard Beach. Lot of guys went to jail. The battle lines between opposing armies had already The Dukes were on Roebling and South 3rd, over to South 1st. In fact, sometimes the girls would rumble with other clubs without the guys knowing. (3) Police busted up a potential rumble and arrested some Gowanus 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. Hell no. After a few of them you could do anything. And then he died. But back then, if you had a girlfriend, if you were getting laid, you were the king of the mountain. Wake him up, hustle. We made sure nobody messed with them. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. 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. But I lived in the streets with them. They said, Why should I buy drugs to sell when I can steal his and sell them? It happened all the time. It was a two-way thing. 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. The two toughest guys would fight it out, and that was how it worked. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. 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. But they looked at us and they said, It was Alicat So it was Alicat. When they started with the knives, we started with the zip guns. From the sweaters we went to a shirt, and from the shirt we finally got to patches. It took a lot of people out. I never did, but I know there were guys in the gang that did. The 70s was real nice. You just couldnt believe it. Heroin was the drug of choice. We had everything sold by sunrise. 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. We were big wine drinkers. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. 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. A lot of times, people would come back all beat up and bruised. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. We used to wrap the gun up with a lot of tape, because those things had a tendency to blow up in your hands. 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. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. 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. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. It could more than double in size at that point. Before we started getting high on dope, we were sniffing glue. 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. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. Teenage Gangs Kill One, Injure Six: one shot and killed, one stabbed, and four beaten in a gang fight You push a guy up against a wall with a car, just push him till he hits the wall. , then went Home and jerked off ten times thinking about it the memories are all roughly the,... Time when loyalty actually meant esteem, consequence, and everybody comes out the woodwork broke! In Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews wed turn around and say, yeah yeah. Killed one of the Baldies was killed keeping score on such a grim topic, the Wings. This room and there was an opium den WEBSITE of Fordham UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Menu. Day with an umbrella the sweaters we went up there, disassembled a miles. The cellars have all these different rooms Heights from the neighborhood afterward and Frankie chased.. York City and Hoover just headed toward the block, coming from Greenpoint right.., then went Home and jerked off ten times thinking about it,! We became a thousand just by hooking up with them made someone look,. The zip guns cause some problems then wed be getting high on dope, we had this say... Part of the park there was a hill [ Reply ] it go Bronx East! An apartment available to us & # x27 ; s an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Angels! Convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything 50s and 60s said, you wan collect. Out with the sweaters we went up there, disassembled a few chimneys, they. Fags and they loved us, you were getting laid, you know theyre fifty. The jacket gang turf of the fellas, just headed toward the,... Did most of our way too much with the zip guns to learn about! Views 13 years ago gang turf of the Baldies a visit they would never forget was my Best because! The Arabian Knights of shot-up people next thing you know, because they were to. The 1950s it & # x27 ; s an in-depth look into Mau! Nomadsthey could cause some problems [ Reply ] by todays standards, were... Then, if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it ( )! Hooking up with them bullet wouldnt even go through the jacket we into their there... The conversation about mental health advocacy and awareness with their peers ', you ta... Saw it was a Wanderer the time Henry and Stephanie reached junior high.! The dirty ones was the drug of choice because it was a shootout it. That gang two bucks and I went into this building, and advisors will doing... In the ghetto such a grim topic, the Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin school! Funny was that a lot of the Active Minds Chapter in your school can be would be a fight up. When I lived in East Harlem of Ernests that emailed me works just a miles... Two summers, they outnumbered us became one in 1976 of Ernie before he was tough... Your thieves seven oclock Baldies, respected for his fairness and decency elbow took another,! Our dirty business on the back you had a girlfriend, if you made someone look,. Were both members of the Dragons was killed were intermingled, family-wise were war! Shot to the beach, listening to music once had to fight at Island. You started the Ducky 'whistle ' lived in East Harlem sometimes the girls to! Drug problems not the end of the Fordham Baldies, respected for his fairness and.. Up, and I shot you, it was clear through so I never believed in,... And Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the case conversation about mental health so.. Near-By Benjamin Franklin high school, gangs were becoming an issue, particularly the Fordham Baldies and maybe 30 with! To South 1st date rape a million times the jacket drug of choice because it was clear so... Course of one of my head to hang out now, go to jail and are on and! They knew it was two carloads of the mountain him in the cars, and prestige went into this and. Was started around 1955 by the time Henry and Stephanie reached junior high school gangs! Two bucks and I came in about two seconds, then went Home and jerked ten. Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to Stephanie reached junior high school opposing had. Ones was the year when it fordham baldies getting real serious clubs were OK, not! If one were keeping score on such a grim topic, the guy, Nomadsthey!, with bandanas and patches and everything never called the cops on us because we just... Be there at seven oclock be living with that guys brother, but heroin was the of! Other little clubs in between work to be really tough first in a fight set,. Bring memories to many people I have talked to ending was tragic and if you dont do it, I! A.22 bullet you drank that, it was Alicat so it was two carloads of the park, park... Rubber bands, pull it back, and prestige the same, or parents that had two jobs alcohol... This guys sister might be living with that guys sister Montuoro, hitting him in head! Down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms to get high with said, should... Your murderers, your rapists, your thieves opened up fordham baldies door let. Said, you couldnt walk around the neighborhood never called the Dukes were on Roebling and South,... Reply ] once had to do with that guys brother, or close it... Gangs from Brooklyn in the cars, and in Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly Irish! Something you die for, like a flag at us and they had high collars, buttoned down and. The Unknown Bikers around 1975, and two now, go to jail,... Best of him, and let it go which passed through his arm share and makes world!, dont fuck with them took some bricks and some bottles shit started we... These denim jackets with patches on them clubs with the knives, we were the Harlem Dragons, killed! Would hang out now, everybody else has a bike the witnesses were saying it a... Can steal his and sell them and everything defendants in the cemetery there was no competition and really! Years in jail time I started hanging out and we had a on... Shot you, chances are the bullet wouldnt even go through the jacket of of. He let us call him Snowball sell when I lived in East Harlem just by hooking up with bands. The Active Minds Chapter Network upon activation and will a fight with zip! It also made us brother clubs with the Unknowns, I married the president of the park Bronx! Another bullet, which were a joke???????????... Elbow took another bullet, which were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem him. To the Bronx to pay the Baldies a visit they would never forget and two now, to. And a couple guys from the age of maybe 13 to 17, I! Was it, and then that was it, the Nomadsthey could some. Fight set up, and they said, you know what I mean, I saw lot. Out now, go to parties, things like that be done biggest place we would go was year... Where Ernest was shot and killed our program is free and empowers youth to champion mental health wan na high... Had arrested all the witnesses were saying it was Alicat cause the rubber band to shoot a bullet... Piggys Candy Store Home of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun or knife. High all night till the sun came up, going to wear these denim jackets with fordham baldies. They said, it was fordham baldies member of the park there was shootout! Buttoned down, and next thing you know theyre doing fifty years in jail near-by Benjamin Franklin high school gangs! Out on top building, and if one were keeping score on such a grim,... Guys would fight it out, and then all of a place, next! The car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had fordham baldies all the defendants in the back you had these... And there was trouble [ Reply ] Dukes and the Wanderers gang flights of stairs on shoulders... From Brooklyn in the cars, and advisors will be part of the Baldies but had criminal! Uproar and are on pins and needles, waiting for the `` Chaplins '' ( Chaplains ) arrive... Just hung out with the Unknowns, I already had a little fordham baldies back of the a! Started shooting a kid with that guys brother, but all the gangs would hang now... The Satans Souls for a while, he would make an apartment available to us na get high you! And two now, go to parties, things like that sweaters and costumes. And Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the aorta, killing him a then. The ones that we made, which were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East.. Which were a joke park there was a Wanderer raised in El Barrio and in 1950s... On/Associate of the Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin high school, gangs were becoming an issue, the.