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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.
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 ...
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.
The 116th Street Crew, [2] also known as the Uptown Crew, [3] is a faction of the Genovese crime family.In the early 1960s, Anthony Salerno became the caporegime of the 116th Street Crew and one of the most powerful captains in the Genovese 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.
[21] [22] Although New York built large, urban high-rise public housing in the 1940s, much of the public housing was built in low-rise form and in outer areas during the 1950s and 1960s; the effect of this was to mitigate much of the gang-on-gang violence that other American cities suffered in that period. [21]
A 24-hour brothel raided by the NYPD last week may have ties to the gang, sources said.. Long list of victims. One current crime spree has seen nearly two dozen heists pulled off by migrants ...
Cosimo Commisso (born 1950) Raffaele Delle Donne (born 1967 or 1968) Antonio Macrì (1902–1975) Salvatore Miceli (born 1946) Michele Modica (born 1955) Gaetano Panepinto (1959–2000) Roberto Pannunzi (born 1948) Johnny Papalia (1924–1997) Domenic Racco (1950–1983) Michele Racco (1913–1980) Johnny Raposo (1977–2012) Norman Ryan (1895 ...