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Former gangs in New York City (5 C, 73 P) F. Five Families (7 C, 7 P) N. Nine Trey Gangsters (4 P) Pages in category "Gangs in New York City"
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 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.
Maranzano reorganized the Italian American gangs in New York City into the Maranzano, Profaci, Mangano, Luciano, and Gagliano families, which are now known as the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families, respectively. Each family had a demarcated territory and an organizationally structured hierarchy and reported to the same ...
Like in Chicago, New York City during the mid 20th century saw a dramatic increase in organized criminal rackets and the gangsters of Harlem have been among the most notorious in American history. Gangsters such as Frank Lucas , hailed as the "baddest dude on the mean streets of Harlem", operated a gang that smuggled heroin into the states from ...
Two senior members of the violent MS-13 gang are among more than a dozen indicted for a series of grisly machete murders across Long Island and Queens, according to prosecutors....
Dozens indicted over NYC gang warfare that led to the deaths of four bystanders NEW YORK (AP) — Four bystanders were shot dead in the last 18 months because of gang rivalries in upper Manhattan, authorities said Thursday as they announced the indictments of dozens of people in a yearslong welter of gunfire, robberies, weapons deals, car ...
How bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua used NYC migrant shelters to build a criminal empire: ‘Hiding in plain sight’ Joe Marino, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon September 23, 2024 at 6:00 AM