Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with I snorted it, sometimes I shot it, but not often. We used to make choppers with four- and six-polesextensions, you know? There were no drugs then. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the They made us have a big meeting in Junior High School 73. Not every club was friendly. These were all pretty much in the same area and were all converted store fronts with bars. When I last saw them, they were street fighters, members of the Fordham Baldies, a gang that made our Little Italy neighborhood unsafe for outsiders. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. Just passing through. Nobody ever bothered to call the cops, because everybody wanted to just take care of him. I remember my first encounter with a drive-by. They became my brothers and sisters. If two women came into a bar, they never paid for a drink and nobody even went over to talk to them. Fourth, sources.I will be doing some more research and adding much more information. He left behind a wife and child. If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. Before the pill, you mostly just had blowjobs. By todays standards, there would have been a lot more lawsuits. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. My brothers were making money selling drugs but I didnt want to get into it. The gangs started separating. The story is really about our group of friends, our football team and yes, a rival crowd on the other side of Bronx Park. No matter where you went, even the toughest gangsfuckin Puerto Ricans, blacks, whateverthey wouldnt fuck with us. Montuoro, who was 25, was not in the Baldies but did have a criminal record for assault and robbery in 1947 and possession of a firearm in 1949. Apparently Mario and Ernest looked very much alike and although Mario didnt discuss the death of his brother, it was something that Marios son always knew about. I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. Oh yeah, and if you went down on a girl then, you couldnt walk around the neighborhood afterward. Not many fights broke out there. Then you tie the hammer up with rubber bands, pull it back, and let it go. Who was I supposed to hang out with? This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. Everybody knew who we were. Later on we had a clubhouse where wed hang out all the time. That wasnt allowed in that neighborhood because that old lady may be some big shot gangsters relative. If you want to have a "See also" section where wiki articles on bklyn etc gang-related movies, etc are handled, I guess you could, but I didn't particularly feel the need so I didn't. As mentioned above, they were a powerful gang and continued to make their presence known up to at least 1959, which by that time had killed two more times. When they started with the knives, we started with the zip guns. This was on Fulton and Rockaway, a half block from my house. I could make up to $20. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. I got convicted for a gang-related manslaughter. formed. Sometimes people got hit by cars. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. I never wore colors. The bond between people who were in gangs was amazing. Once you drink a couple gallons of that wine, youre ready to go. First, we need to find some places that we could link to this page, so it gets some visibility. Then Id go into this one restaurant, talk to the guy I knew there, find out if there was any food from breakfast left99 percent of the time there wasand hed pack it up and give it to me. I ran up and down the fire escape, taking a lot of the tenants out. Back then, Id get up in the morning, 7:30 or so, go stand on the corner by the train station, and ask for quarters. Now, everybody else has a bike. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. We would let him go because he was with his girl. It was a bunch of detectives whose primary job was to try and keep tabs on the gangs and see what was going on. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. That freaked me out. There was one place on South 9th where the landlordhe was a Hasidicsaw that as long as we were in the building, none of the tenants complained about the addicts burglarizing them or people shooting up in the hallways or on the roof or anything like that. So it worked both ways. TRIKER1 (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply], I read the article twice and I still have no idea what most of it was talking about. In football, the Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. You could see how things escalated. Baldies didn't shave their heads and in reality wore Ducks Ass hairdoos like The Fonz and were named after bald eagles? Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. But he tires of being a Baldie, and the nail in the coffin, is when all the good members in a drunken stupor, sign up for the US Navy. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. You have it all. lol" Another former gang member from the Garrisons had this to say about the Duckies: "If you were planning to visit the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx you needed to concern yourself with the "Duck(ie)s." Legend has it, if you are visiting the Bronx Botanical Gardens and blast out a 'Duckie Whistle', Duckies will show up to greet you till this day! Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. And then he died. The Spanish guys were different. who descended on Micheal Farmer in the city owned: Highbridge swimming pool, whom they perceived Eventually, though, it got to where you were lucky to get within a block of each other. Premieres in 64 minutes February 20 at 4:30 PM BRONX GANGS Of The 1960s - FORDHAM BALDIES Dusty Vision TV - DVTV 36.5K subscribers Subscribe 0 1 waiting Premieres Feb 20, 2023 Dusty Vision TV on. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. Me and a couple friends of mine went to a hooker. Both Frank and Vincent were packing fully loaded automatic pistols. The South 9th Bikers turf was around Broadway, from like where the BQE starts at Havemeyer to what was called Jew Town, where the Hasidics start. Mario felt partially responsible for his brothers death and it was something that troubled him for his entire life. I guess I was lucky. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. When this second son was born, Ernests widow moved to California leaving everyone and everything behind. That happened a lot. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. Now were going to wear these denim jackets with patches on them. And then all of a sudden, youd find yourself claiming a piece of Brooklyn as your fuckin real estate. Back in the early days, we used to have a habit of snatching their hats. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. I would buy it from Italian guys over on Avenue D, but not guys that we actually knew. Thats the way the neighborhood was. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. Prostitution was everywhere too. Only Chinese guys did opium. There was one Irish kid, I think, and one black kid. Most were dressed in the 'uniform We werent selling, we were just using. In the back of the park there were freight trains that ran underneath and there was one tunnel that was closed off due to an explosion. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. The official athletics website for the Fordham University Rams We could see them from the hill. Or you find them in a car, dead. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. By the time Henry and Stephanie reached junior high school, gangs were becoming an issue, particularly the Fordham Baldies. 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I do think a cross-reference to similar Brooklyn movies (and Mean Streets) makes sense, but as a Wiki neophyte and busy guy, I don't have the time to do it. I heard that he was like that because his mother was killed. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. It feels bad. If somebody says, Oh, let me see your colors, turn around, its not something you do. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. When they got back to East Harlem, they dropped off Hall, Bella and DePetris, but picked up two new Red Wings, Frank Ciappetta and Vincent Gugliemelli. Like 12 or 13. 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