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The Whyos or Whyos Gang, a collection of the various post-Civil War street gangs of New York City, was the city's dominant street gang during the mid-late 19th century. The gang controlled most of Manhattan from the late 1860s until the early 1890s, when the Monk Eastman Gang defeated the last of the Whyos. The name came from the gang's cry ...
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 crime families historically operated throughout the New York metropolitan area, but mainly within New York City. In the state of New York, the gangs have increased their criminal rackets on Long Island, including both Nassau and Suffolk counties, and the counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Albany.
Gangs and gang culture are nothing new. The Office of Justice Programs traces some of America’s first gangs to the 1700's. The National Gang Center says early immigration to the U.S. played a role.
View of fight between two gangs, the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys, New York City, 1857. Three main immigrant groups entered the Northeast US via New York in the early 1800s: English, Irish, and German. [10] On the Lower East Side of New York, these immigrant groups formed into gangs in an area known as the Five Points. [10]
The gang, which also peddles a lethal fentanyl mix called Tussi or “pink cocaine,” has grown so fast that it has so far overwhelmed both average New Yorkers and the city’s elite police force.
Massino was the first sitting boss of a New York crime family to turn state's evidence, and the second in the history of the American Mafia to do so. [76] Philadelphia crime family boss Ralph Natale had flipped in 1999 when facing drug charges, though Natale was mostly a "front" boss while the real boss of the Philadelphia Mafia used Natale as ...
The Five Points Gang was a criminal street gang (very dangerous), initially of primarily Irish-American origins, based in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan, New York City, during the late 19th and early 20th century. [1] The gang had its origin in the various Irish immigrant and Irish-American gangs in the Five Points area.