To this day, we still hang out, and wed do anything for each other. And I tell you, that was a fuckin fight. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. We gotta watch our back. Youd bring a girl with you so she could hold the gun. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. It could be that she had sex with one of the girls guys, it could be that she was just wanting to have sex with one of the girls guys, or she could have just been from another club. 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. So wed take the apartment over. I could make up to $20. So a lot of guys ODd. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. By todays standards, there would have been a lot more lawsuits. I left my mothers house when I was 14. This time we were up on the roofs throwing things down on them: Bricks, bottles, cans you could kill somebody if you hit em with a garbage can of rocks from 50 feet up. The Woodside Chiefs, teenage boys, were self funded. 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 was easier to sell. So our style of dress and everything was like them. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. It was a sanctuary, this rectangle here. There were no drugs then. The Duckies got their name because the original guys hung out at the Duck pond in the Bronx Botanical Gardens and shot at the ducks with slingshots, therefore, they eventually called themselves "Duckies". Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. Bernard Caleo and Angelo DiVincenzo were seated on the stoop in front of the candy store, unaware of what was about to happen. I never believed in that, so I never did it. 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. I go to a funeral now and I dont even cry. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. This is my hood. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. My brothers were making money selling drugs but I didnt want to get into it. Right now, the Majestics is a motorcycle club. And sometimes it didnt. 1954 Red Wings & Fordham Baldies The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. Our gang was the wiseguys, you know what I mean? It was just that I started hanging out over here more than over at the other side. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. After that I knew it was nothing serious, so I never bothered to go to the hospital. Not many fights broke out there. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. In football, the Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision. I swear to God. If you want to have a "See also" section where wiki articles on bklyn etc gang-related movies, etc are handled, I guess you could, but I didn't particularly feel the need so I didn't. Someone please remove this, its a rap music term. 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. Youd be saying, I dont give a shit who you are, calling the club out. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. 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. 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. I got into the gangs very, very early. A lot of them I met through fighting with them. Ducking from shootouts and things like that. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. Wasnt too much of a fight. Puerto Ricans were moving into East Harlem at greater rates as the 1950s progressed. It was like 50 cents a bottle. I was a heroin addict from the age of maybe 13 to 17, but not like a falling-down addict. And nobody could fuck with that. I stayed in there for what seemed like three hours, but it was probably 15 minutes. bayonets, brass knuckles, and garrison belts before officers swoop This was 1960 through 1962. I dont have any emotions anymore. People hustled their money. And I tell you, it was a great fuckin scam. We hung around Aberdeen Park. 42nd Street was like Mecca, where all the gangs would hang out on Friday night. They were a big crewwhite gang, mostly Italian. You usually carried a knife, something to protect you. 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. The 2 external links that I supplied give a lot more detail and documentation, and I suggest that the next editor of this piece start there. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. We came into a lot of weapons at an early time. If you walked by somebodys block, they would chase you, shoot at you, and beat you down if they caught you. We were so fuckin broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. All these people laying down on cots and shit, with these pipes, and one guy tending them. It wasnt too hard to see the handwriting on the wall. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. The bullet penetrated his abodmen wall and because of the injury his leg became gangrenous and he had to have his right leg amputated several inches above the knee. When this second son was born, Ernests widow moved to California leaving everyone and everything behind. You could see how things escalated. You went home, you needed a couple of stitches, you know, you went to the neighborhood drugstore, you got butterfly stitches. I'm kind of busy so don't know if I can do much here, but if I come across things that are relevant, I'll add them. Finally the Youth Squadthe special police squad they set up just to deal with the gang problemgot involved. I got my head split open with a piano leg one night too. Its something you die for, like a flag. From the Jewish girls mostly, not from Catholic girlsnot when I was a kid. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. 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. I never let anybody get close to me or walk behind me. From the sweaters we went to a shirt, and from the shirt we finally got to patches. You come running through the building with the cops after you and you could run into any door. 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. "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. *Click on Fullscreen to see the full trial minutes*. It would scare people. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. We were always there. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. They were like, "Who's the. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. You could also take a chimney apartgrab a couple bricks and throw those. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. Little Italy was strictly Italian. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. The 70s was real nice. Wake him up, hustle. 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 like Jersey to me, Avenue D. The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. Thats how popular heroin was. That was the big thing. We rumbled with their guys, and that started a war between the clubs. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. The gangs -- with names such as the Ducky Boys, Del Bombers and Fordham Baldies (who really are bald) -- are racially segregated. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. I snorted it, sometimes I shot it, but not often. In fact, we protected people. 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. We were never really into robbing people. But yeah, I broke into every factory. 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. I lived on Fulton and Rockaway, which was home to another crew, the Fulton and Rockaway Boys. Like 12 or 13. hairstyle later made famous by Fonzie from Happy Days. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. But there were some of us who had everything a kid could have. The battle lines between opposing armies had already When I did get arrested, my little brothermay he rest in peacehe was involved. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. My brother Alex started wearing patches when he was hanging out with this other club, the Dirty Ones. Ill be honest with you, the Spanish guys had a little more guts than the black guys. Did it help? A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. They were all afraid of us. When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. We had a lot of guys in the gangsometimes we had 40, sometimes we had 60, sometimes we had 100. This guy Frankie Boy was my best friend because he was really tough and I wasnt. I was like, What the hell is this? Then, slowly but surely, I started to gravitate towards them. Nobody ever bothered to call the cops, because everybody wanted to just take care of him. 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. Its even like that now. We were all hanging out together already, the Unknowns and the South 9s. 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. FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? The Micheal Farmer killing was an incident that happened during the showing of West We had no real guns, just the ones that we made, which were a joke. We were sitting on the corner of Longwood, drinking beer, and this particular club came by and started shooting. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. 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. The Woodside Chiefs were a Pop Warner, multi-division, football team from 1955 thru 1965. It doesnt get any worse than that. You wanted to teach him a lesson. Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. Its like a family, or the police department, or the priesthood. So every day somebody else would wear the jackets at school. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. If two women came into a bar, they never paid for a drink and nobody even went over to talk to them. The rest of them are scattered to the wind. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. I was too young to know much about them, except that everyone was afraid of them. They were like, Oh, its not bad. After the Kennedy assassination, somebody opened up the door and let the drugs in. I would say, three out of every five shootouts, somebody would get hit. Your chances of going to jail were even worse. That was it. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). The biggest place we would go was the Starship. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. 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). The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. Before the pill, you mostly just had blowjobs. Sweater by United Bamboo, jeans by Levis. 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. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. For more information on the Baldies, please visit James Hannons website, Lantern-Media where he shares some of his research on the Fordham Baldies as well as another period gang called the Duckys. In the case I am talking about here, there are no school rumours about a Baldie invasion. In 1959, a member of the Dragons was killed in a fight with the Viceroys. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. The problem with that was, if you snatched one of their hats in the wrong neighborhood, youd have a hell of a chase. The University also supports a number of club sports, and a significant intramural . They. A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. They It was like a game. I never did, but I know there were guys in the gang that did. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. I caught a few. But I never did. 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 had another Italian neighborhood, down on Cherry Street and Madison that was just the same as ours. They werent pussies. When we were on Lee Avenue there was this black guy. Not in my memory! I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. That was the year when it started getting real serious. I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. Even today, in 2012, the Fordham Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to. You stick a car antenna in it and file down the part that you cock backthe hammer. But there were girls where I had to kick their ass. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. We had colorsblue sweaters. 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. They parked the Caddy and settled in at Section 17 of Orchard Beach which at the time was divided into 27 sections (now it is divided into 13 sections). The Dukes were on Roebling and South 3rd, over to South 1st. You have every type of person in every club. 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. In fact, all three people who were involved in the murder ended up dying within three years of it. Our big thing was buying cough medicine. 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. The Viceroys were a Puerto Rican gang from 103rd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues. You know, if somebody needed to get high, you made sure they got high; if someone got locked up, you make sure when they got out, you threw a party. I left it, but recommend changing that line. One summer, we got into it with the Spanish gang. Id be there for a few hours. Having an Active Minds Chapter in your school can be an important step in changing the conversation about mental health. The '50s and '60's were a time when loyalty actually meant esteem, consequence, and prestige. I mean, these girls could fight. You get high. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. I also had to fight some of the guys in the club. Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. Thats the bottom line. The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's Belmont Avenue. You won. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. I didnt do that. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. Premieres in 64 minutes February 20 at 4:30 PM BRONX GANGS Of The 1960s - FORDHAM BALDIES Dusty Vision TV - DVTV 36.5K subscribers Subscribe 0 1 waiting Premieres Feb 20, 2023 Dusty Vision TV on. During this time, both began to listen to rock and roll and go to dances on Friday Night. That freaked me out. They werent really that strong of a weapon. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). Montuoro, who was 25, was not in the Baldies but did have a criminal record for assault and robbery in 1947 and possession of a firearm in 1949. I would break into the sweater factory, the clothes factory, the pillow factory I even broke into a coffin factory one day. 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. Everybody kept their eyes open. You lived in the neighborhood, you joined a gang. Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were charged with 2nd Degree Murder and the others with 1st Degree Manslaughter. At school, a high school teacher accidentally sparks a race riot between the Italian gang the Wanderers and the Black gang the Del-Bombers. There were like 20 of us. Basically the territory was divided by the Bronx River that ran through the park. A couple times, wed take somebody down there and leave em, maybe tied up, and he had to get out by himself. I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. 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. We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. It was a black guy who did it to him, in a fight over a girl. 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." The only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. It was like one big family. Even some of the names used are real. He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. Second, I want to expand the introduction. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. The guys and I would go and take it and strip the parts off and hed get his insurance. Pichon, President of the original Latin Kings of Highbridge Park, '63, currently living in the West Coast. Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. There were some crazy kids, though. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. I guess I was lucky. You had the Dirty Ones up by Graham Avenue. We went to the same school and we were all young. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. 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. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. It looked like an epidemic had destroyed the place. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. 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 . Bellagio99 20:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Yeah, it was nice. Everybody fights to kill. These are the people that we grew up with. Just passing through. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. I wasnt hit too often. First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. 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. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. I went into the service in 66. Little by little the white gang broke up. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. It was just fighting all the time. 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. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. Who was I supposed to hang out with? My childrens fatherwe had five children togetherhe and I slept in abandoned cars and buildings, what we called clubhouses. Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. Once again, I wanted to go out with someone who was in that gang. This was on Fulton and Rockaway, a half block from my house. First, we need to find some places that we could link to this page, so it gets some visibility. 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. I used to hide sometimes on the corner and wait for him, just hoping to get him. But you can find where it was filmed on this list. And a lot of these girls from these clubs, let me tell you, a lot of them could have been better fighters than Alis daughter. Thats how I used to get my money. When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on That was our block, so we had to protect everybody from other people who would come in and mess up the block. We had fun. But it made a big noise and a flash of light. I remember my first encounter with a drive-by. NYC Youth Gangs - 1950s. 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. Side Story. The parents always got along, and we always respected their parents and they respected our parents. His father was a building super. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. Then, in a way that only the Internet can make happen, I received an email from another nephew of Ernests who was actually able to find Ernests unborn son at the time (when Ernest was killed he was married with a boy and his wife was 7 months pregnant with another son on the way). Who the hell knows whats in your brain? 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. All of them met violent deaths. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in At its centre is Italian-American kid Richie (Ken Wahl) who is one of. They didnt look like they bathed. You have your murderers, your rapists, your thieves. Violence back then, if you put it on a scale, Id say it was about a seven. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. Everybody knew who we were. They yell one word in Yiddish, and everybody comes out the woodwork. 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. 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. 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 . It feels bad. This was from a roof maybe four stories up. He lived like that for a long time. So it was an epidemic, but an economic type of epidemic. 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. I had a very bad temper back then. They were called the Flaming Satans. I got arrested October 1980, came home December 1993. We went to Seward Park High School, and it was mostly Jews. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. Thats when we were first coming up. The guys in the restaurants were cool with us, and in return, we took care of them. We had a gang that started in high school. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. 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. They gave my brother a summons, and I stood in jail for a decade and change. We just got along. It was a bunch of detectives whose primary job was to try and keep tabs on the gangs and see what was going on. But when wed fight the Spanish guys, theyd stand there. In the back of the park there were freight trains that ran underneath and there was one tunnel that was closed off due to an explosion. They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. The Majestics started in the early 70s. 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. They punctured his lung and he almost died. Overdosed, stuff like that. We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. The book is 6x9 and has 370 pages! Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. The balcony on 204th and the 'tunnels', and the whole area surrounding Twin Lakes was our turf! He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. We would let him go because he was with his girl. However, in this case below, the violence was actually with another white gang called the Fordham Baldies. Because of this gang fights between the two groups became the norm. About a month later, when he got out of the hospital, they invaded us again. Eventually, if you hung out in that neighborhood you tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into town. After a while, if he called the police, then we would be angry at him. And of course, you dont let nobody take your colors. You showed up at the park at seven and we walked down Bushwick Avenue and wed do what we had to do. 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