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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 Five Points, Manhattan is a location that was associated with gang activities from the early 19th century. [1] In the late 1920s, Al Capone was the leader of the Chicago Outfit [2] The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club was founded in 1948 and is considered a criminal gang by American law enforcement agencies, particularly for their involvement in drug-related activities and violent crimes.
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 Orchard Park Trailblazers is a street gang in the Roxbury area of Boston. The gang was mostly active in the early 1990s and became infamous for violence. [1] They are bitter rivals of the Columbia Point Dawgs. Both gangs have been feuding on the streets of Boston for nearly 30 years. [2]
The Eastman Gang was a predominately Jewish-American street gang that dominated parts of the underworld in New York City during the late 1890s until the early 1910s. Along with the increasingly Italian-American and Italian immigrant Five Points Gang under Italian-American Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, best known by his pseudonym Paul Kelly, the Eastman gang succeeded the long dominant Whyos as the ...
The 1962 book, All the Way Down: The Violent Underworld of Street Gangs by Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum, featured real accounts of the Gowanus Boys. The gang was located in the Gowanus section of South Brooklyn, and was one of the earlier neighborhood crews that would evolve into the larger, loosely affiliated South Brooklyn Boys street gang.
The Almighty Gaylords Nation, founded in 1953, is one of Chicago's oldest street gangs, [4] originating in the West Town neighborhood at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Noble Street. Initially composed mostly of Italians, it also included some Mexican Americans, reflecting the ethnic diversity of the area, which was recognized as one of ...
The Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips is a "set" of the Crips street gang alliance based in Los Angeles, California, originally formed around Hyde Park, Los Angeles in 1976 from the Westside Crips and having since spread to other cities in the United States.