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The Black Spadeswere a mostly African-Americanstreet gangwhich started in the Bronxduring 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. During this period Latino and white ...
Early 1970s. 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 ...
Pierre Hotel robbery. Appearance. Coordinates: 40°45′55″N73°58′20″W40.7652°N 73.9721°W. Pierre Hotel Robbery. The Pierre hotel robbery was a January 2, 1972 robbery at The Pierre in New York City. The robbery netted $3 million (worth $27 million today), and was organized by Samuel Nalo; Robert "Bobby" Comfort, an associate of the ...
The Westies were a New York City -based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing. They were partnered with the Italian-American Mafia and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
Forty Thieves (1825-1860s) - Considered the first known street gang in New York City; Gas House Gang (1880s-1910) Ghost Shadows (1970s-1990s) Gopher Gang (1890s-1910s) Grady Gang (1860s) Honeymoon Gang (1850s) Hook Gang (1866-1876) Hudson Dusters (1890s-1917) Jheri Curls (1990s) Kerryonians (1825-1830s) Lenox Avenue Gang (early 1900s-1910s ...
Prohibition and the Great Depression. [edit] New York. [edit] During the 1920s and 1930s, African American organized crime was centered in New York's Harlem, the largest black city in the world,[4]where the numbers racketwas largely controlled by Casper Holsteinand the "Madam Queen of Policy", Stephanie St. Clair. St.
The Council was an African-American organized crime syndicate in New York City that controlled the heroin trade in the Harlem area of the city during the 1970s. Formed by Nicky Barnes in 1972, the seven-man organization ran the heroin trade in Harlem, handled local criminal disputes, and solved other issues related to the drug trade. [2]
The United Blood Nation, also known as the East Coast Bloods, [4] is a street and prison gang active primarily in the New York metropolitan area. [3] It is the east coast faction of the California-based Bloods street gang. [2] Their main source of income is the trafficking and sale of illegal drugs. [3][7]