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South Brooklyn Boys. South Brooklyn Boys (abbreviated as SBB) was a famous New York City street gang. In the 1950s, various Italian-American gangs were formed in South Brooklyn, New York City, and came together under the moniker of "South Brooklyn Boys" sometime around the 1950s. The gang had a mostly Italian American membership.
Mau Maus was the name of a 1950s street gang in New York City. The book and the adapted film The Cross and the Switchblade and biography Run Baby Run document the life of its most famous leader Nicky Cruz. Their name was derived from the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. Nicky Cruz wrote a book about his experiences called Run Baby Run.
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-1910)
0–9. 14K (triad) 18th Street gang. 80 Blocks from Tiffany's. 116th Street Crew.
For so long Red Hook was one of Brooklyn’s most stigmatized neighborhoods, dominated by crime and extreme violence. In the early twentieth century, for instance, Red Hook’s docks were ...
Dennis Allen "Dr. Death", Melbourne based drug dealer and murderer. April – Cesare Bonventre, Bonanno - Galante crime family captain. May 27 – Michael Franzese, member of the Colombo crime family. June – Keith Faure, Melbourne crime figure. June 30 – Salvatore LoCascio, high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family.
Former gangs in New York City, specifically those of the Bowery and Five Points districts. Many of these topics were described in Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York and fictionalized in director Martin Scorsese's the 2002 film, Gangs of New York.
Less than a month later, Warlick and George Risher Jr., another member of YPF gang, and at least two other unidentified people, went to a birthday party in East New York for a 16-year-old after ...