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The meeting was held at the Boys Club on Hoe Avenue in the Bronx, with dozens of street organizations and many city officials and police present. Attendants included the Black Pearls, Savage Skulls, Turbans, Young Sinners, Royal Javelins, Dutchmen, Magnificent Seven, Dirty Dozens, Liberated Panthers, Black Spades, Seven Immortals, Latin Spades, Peacemakers, and Ghetto Brothers. [4]
The gang originated in 1968 in the Bronxdale Houses in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Although rumor says they were originally named the Savage Seven, the name from the start was the Black Spades. The Black Spades officially formed in Junior High School 123 on Morrison Ave in Soundview.
80 Blocks from Tiffany's documents the lives of gang members in the Grand Concourse area of the South Bronx, between 167th and 170th Streets. [1] The film focuses primarily on the members of two gangs, the Savage Skulls and the Savage Nomads, in an area with a high level of crime and urban decay. [1]
The Savage Nomads were a mostly Puerto Rican and African American street gang started in the South Bronx area of The Bronx, New York during the late 1960s, gaining popularity in the 1970s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The gang was involved in a number of running battles with rival gangs Seven Immortals, Savage Skulls , and the Dirty Dozen.
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The Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) was one of the ten bureaus that formed the New York Police Department.The Bureau was charged with the investigation and prevention of organized crime within New York City.
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.