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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) Ghost Shadows (1970s-1990s) Gopher Gang (1890s-1910s) Grady Gang (1860s) Honeymoon Gang (1850s) Hook Gang ...
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]
Former gangs in New York City (5 C, 73 P) F. Five Families (7 C, 7 P) N. Nine Trey Gangsters (4 P) Pages in category "Gangs in New York City"
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 early 1980s.
The Richardson Gang, Charlie and Eddie Richardson; Roy Shaw (1936–2012 ... Nicodemo Scarfo, "Little Nicky" (Philadelphia family member based in Atlantic City) (1929 ...
Gang violence is increasing across the board in big cities and small towns. Gangs and gang culture are nothing new. The Office of Justice Programs traces some of America’s first gangs to the 1700's.
It is an accurate reflection on the Bronx's history considering that the towns that existed in the area prior to annexation to the City of New York generally did not straddle the Bronx River. In addition, what is today the Bronx was annexed to New York City in two stages: areas west of the Bronx River were annexed in 1874 while areas to the ...
The gang broadened its reach into other states, and small-time gangsters once happy to score a few hundred dollars now brought home thousands. Sex Money Murder gang grew from Bronx to running ...