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Crazy Butch Gang (1890s- early 1900s) Daybreak Boys (1840s-1859) Dead Rabbits (1830s-1860s) Dutch Mob (1870s-1880s) East Harlem Purple Gang (1970s-1980s) Eastman Gang (1890s-1910s) Five Points Gang (1890s-1920s) Flying Dragons (1967-1994) Forty Thieves (1825-1860s) - Considered the first known street gang in New York City; Gas House Gang (1880s ...
The Hoe Avenue peace meeting was an important gathering of gangs that took place in the Bronx, New York City, on December 8, 1971. [1] [2] [3] It was called to propose a general truce and an unprecedented inter-gang alliance.
The Black Spades were a mostly African-American street gang which started in the Bronx during the late 1960s and gained popularity in the 1970s. [1] The gang began to spread from the Bronx to Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, New Rochelle, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut by the late 1980s.
Marco Reginelli (Philadelphia family member based in South Jersey) (1897–1956) Giovanni Riggi , "John the Eagle" (1925–2015) Nicodemo Scarfo , "Little Nicky" (Philadelphia family member based in Atlantic City) (1929–2017)
Gang violence is increasing across the board in big cities and small towns. Gangs and gang culture are nothing new. The Office of Justice Programs traces some of America’s first gangs to the 1700's.
The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang and organized crime group in New York City consisting of Italian-American hit-men and heroin dealers who were semi-independent from the Italian-American Mafia and, according to federal prosecutors, dominated heroin distribution in East Harlem, Italian Harlem, and the Bronx during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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The NYPD, which has its hands tied by New York State's lenient bail reforms and protections for violent juveniles criminals, also grapples with the Big Apples migrant-friendly 'sanctuary' status.