I heard that he was like that because his mother was killed. One guys father was a hunter, and he went on vacation. NYC Youth Gangs - 1950s. First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. Wed eat, drink wine, hang out, bullshit, discuss what we were going to do that day, whether we were going to go visit another club or if there was going to be some kind of party. We spent a night one time stripping a whole car completely down to the chassis. Also, we used to have a lot of gay guys come around and theyd get us a couple pills, some marijuana, and bullets for our zip guns. We were like, Nah, dont fuck with them. Such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and long disruptions. Me and another Unknown Biker were convicted for it. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. There were six of them and two of us. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. Two friends of mine once had to fight at Coney Island because thats where the argument happened. This was found to be a nice touch in the Wanderers movie, but in reality, the Fordham Baldies were named for the bald eagle and had the duck's ass or "D.A." hairstyle later made famous by . We were trying to imitate them. 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. It was all music and sex and everybody getting high. They were called the Flaming Satans. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. Coke was popular when it first came out, but heroin was the drug of choice because it was a better high. You lived in an apartment with four rooms and four people, and it was so close that you really lived in the street because you had to get out of the house. Wed drink Night Train. We started saying, Why dont we make patches? And finally we did. I got convicted for a gang-related manslaughter. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. --rocketrye12 talk/contribs 03:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I moved it to Bronx gangs (mid-twentieth century), please mind your capitalization. This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. Or you find them in a car, dead. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Our turf was Lee Avenue and Lynch Street. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. Eventually, if you hung out in that neighborhood you tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into town. It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. In the 1960s, among students citywide, truancy increased and socializing gained priority, whereby other high schools often issued diplomas once their requirements were met via Roosevelt's evening and summer . This is my hood. Anyway, we werent vicious kids. We were trying to hide, actually, because the NYPD Youth Squad was always down here, asking us questions like who was who, and who was our leader. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. You had to have respect. He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. You just couldnt believe it. My brother Alex started wearing patches when he was hanging out with this other club, the Dirty Ones. Oh yeah, and if you went down on a girl then, you couldnt walk around the neighborhood afterward. Because of this gang fights between the two groups became the norm. But thats the way they did it in those days. But I lived in the streets with them. They werent really that strong of a weapon. But I stole. I told him to open the garbage can, one of those big silver ones, and I went in there, and I told him to put everything on top of me and put the lid on. There were also after school programs Stephanie went to that had a lot of activities for the kids. THE 5TH (EAST,TREMONT AND MAPES AVE.) area in the 1970's: THE BLACK SPADES, PEACE MAKERS, HARLEM TURKS, 7 IMMORTALS, P.O.W.E.R. He was out on the street. Having an Active Minds Chapter in your school can be an important step in changing the conversation about mental health. He was so fuckin mad he didnt pay attention, and the guy went around the corner and when Frankie came after him, he was waiting, and hit him with a two-by-fourwhamright across the head. It would scare people. Mario felt partially responsible for his brothers death and it was something that troubled him for his entire life. He was from the Marcy Projects and he would always come down with a gun. Then another five would do another dance routine, and it became like a fucking dance-off. The reputation of the Baldies name had preceded them and the mere mention of Baldies, was good enough to get everyone worried about an impending gang attack. Thats when we were first coming up. I got arrested October 1980, came home December 1993. It was something for show. If you dont do it, youre not part of the crew. They thought I had control over their leader. The landlord wasnt going to come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass. During this time, both began to listen to rock and roll and go to dances on Friday Night. They had me in the bullpen with him when the witnesses came. I removed the references to Brooklyn gangs in popular culture - does not make any sense to have them there - this article is not about Brooklyn. I mean, I could have been arrested for date rape a million times. The battle lines between opposing armies had already It was like 50 cents a bottle. They were like, "Who's the. And then when youre like 13 or 14, you start to hang out a little bit and the older guys start to notice you and start to talk to you and before you knew it youd been groomed into what they were. It was an opportunistic thing. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. A loosely organized street gang with fewer than 60 members and a name inspired by a cartoon has taken on near-mythical status among high school students in New York City, the police and school. 42nd Street was like Mecca, where all the gangs would hang out on Friday night. All of us went to school together. About a month later, when he got out of the hospital, they invaded us again. Because we were like brothers. About ten months ago I received an email from the son of Mario Montuoro. You had the Dirty Ones up by Graham Avenue. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. Everybody fights to kill. 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. down on them. I wasnt hit too often. That was when the Bronx was burning. They punctured his lung and he almost died. It was also common for someone to be walking down the street, and a car would stop, and a bunch of guys would jump out and beat on him. Somebody else could come and rob your mother and you wouldnt like it. We spent a couple nights in jail. One of us would move out of a place, and ten families would move in. Was a wild time growing up, some bad, some good, but many learning experiences came from those times. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. Baldies wounded.Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War. And to make it more interesting, this gang fight happened far from East Harlem it happened in the Bronx in Baldies turf at 189th Street and Belmont Ave. Jumping back in Giampettruzzis Cadillac, the five Red Wings headed back to Orchard Beach. I was 12 or 13. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. For instance, my friend Dusty got stabbed, and he came back from the Bronx really late, and I hung out with him the whole night at the hospital. 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. We made sure nobody messed with them. Bellagio99 20:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]. At that point, all everybody wanted to do was sell drugs. So thats how it happened. Wed hang out in the park at night. It was because of who you were. The Unknowns used to be from Union to Rodney, Metropolitan to like South 4th. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? And that would touch it off right away, because theyd start yelling back at us, and before you knew it, wed be running down on the railroad tracks, theyd be running up. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. 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. Later on we had a clubhouse where wed hang out all the time. It wasnt too hard to see the handwriting on the wall. For everybodyespecially our people but even for strangers, what we called Merigans, like Ameriganswe had respect for all of them. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. I got locked up in 80 and came out in 83. It was a bunch of detectives whose primary job was to try and keep tabs on the gangs and see what was going on. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. Third, some more trivia. Like 12 or 13. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. But there were some of us who had everything a kid could have. Before the pill, you mostly just had blowjobs. It was a gangster neighborhood. That was a typical night. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. We were never really into robbing people. Inside, sipping a soda, was Ernest Montuoro. When he died, my brother Carlos took over. We could see them from the hill. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. There were real gangsters around too. Mario was Ernests brother but passed away a couple of days prior to his son emailing me in March 2012. Every time he came by the block there was a shootout, so everybody was always aware when he was passing by. That happened a lot. With us in the building, there was security. When wed fight with the black guys, it was more or less hit and run. On a warm Saturday night, wed all be up on the hill. And I tell you, it was a great fuckin scam. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. Sometimes. Yeah, it was nice. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. I buried three of my brothers because of being in gangs and being involved in drugs and living in the ghetto. What was so funny was that a lot of the people were intermingled, family-wise. He didnt see where I was shooting from, so I ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. In that neighborhood, if you werent in a gang, you just went to school and you were fine, but if you were in a gang your chances of survival were 50/50. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. We protected women. Baseball Baseball: Facebook Baseball: Twitter Baseball: Instagram Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Facebook Basketball: Twitter Basketball: Instagram Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Facebook Cross Country: Twitter Cross . Side Story. I am currently researching these two killings one in 1958 and the other in 1959 and hope to write about them in more detail in the future. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. What do you think?--rocketrye12 talk/contribs 04:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], Sorry, didn't see this discussion - I changed the name to Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s) because that is specifically what is being discussed. We had a building on the Southside that we painted up with Free Sonny Barger. He was the Hells Angels national president who was locked up at the time. Just passing through. One of the Red Wings yelled out, Are you the Fordham Baldies? At hearing this, Bernard, Angelo and Ernest approached the vehicle, standing about seven feet from the curb. Then you were on file. You have to flip your colors. They started getting nasty. From Spanish Harlem, we moved to the South Bronx. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. Everybody knew who we were. I was already scared by being in jail. If anyone stepped in, (stepped out of turn) he was accounted for verbally and brutally. Ive snorted a lot of cocaine in my fuckin life, but these guys I know who used to do snuff, their noses used to fuckin bleed. Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. Here's the spotify link:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FJNuMjFZHeQKJXR0DlmzX?si=RjpC0Rx4SpWB7sXFlct-Qg\u0026utm_source=copy-link\u0026dl_branch=1\u0026nd=1 Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. It was where I was going to end up, whether I wanted to or not. A couple times, wed take somebody down there and leave em, maybe tied up, and he had to get out by himself. John Gotti, too. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. I never shot up. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. You were whacked out of your face. From the sweaters we went to a shirt, and from the shirt we finally got to patches. Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. They looked at both of us, and I was a little relieved because I said to myself, well, they really was there, so Im gonna walk. 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. Jun.1, 1954 - Several Members of the Red Wings' gang from East Harlem drove to Fordham Baldies turf in the Bronx and shoot dead Ernest Montuoro after being insulted in a fracas at Orchard Beach. Search . If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. You won. Anybody who had a Boy after their nameJohnny Boy, Frankie Boythey were always in trouble, cause they were always trying to prove they were a man. They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. This was 1960 through 1962. Every Friday and Saturday night I would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and Flushing Avenue. On the next block, one block past Bushwick Avenue, was Aberdeen Park. So we all hang out now, go to parties, things like that. It was 60 years ago today (October 16th, 1960) that Dion announced his split from the Belmonts.Dion, whose last name is DiMucci, had been a member of the Bronx, New York street gang the Fordham Baldies when he joined musical forces with Carlo Mastrangelo, Freddy Milano, and Angelo D'Aleo, who were part of a rival gang, the Imperial Hoods.The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's . areas at 8 PM. I would break into the sweater factory, the clothes factory, the pillow factory I even broke into a coffin factory one day. The bullet penetrated his abodmen wall and because of the injury his leg became gangrenous and he had to have his right leg amputated several inches above the knee. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. We had nobody left, so we said, Whats the use in fighting? We got to the point where we got older, we had girlfriends, we started getting cars, and we left the neighborhood. (3) Police busted up a potential rumble and arrested some Gowanus Theres a lot of people walking around messed up to this day, and a lot of people dead. Nobody fights to hurt anymore. I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. Today, thats what the gangs call itthe Bloods, the Crips, all of them, they call it flagging: I die for my flag. 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. We came into a lot of weapons at an early time. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. Teenage "Jitterbugging" gangs from the 1950s, International & USA Book Order for Brooklyn Rumble, Chapters in My Climb to the Top of the Bottom, Jake LaMotta and (some of) his Early Years, The Bronx Noble Dukes and the Mysterious Five, Black Patch of the Jesters and the Pastor who tried to help him, Confiscated Contraband in New York State Reformatory 1962, Greene Avenue Stompers, Nits & Memorial Day Rumble, Marcy Ave Chaplains and Brief Description of the Immortal Sinners gang, Buccaneers and Marcy Chaplains March 1960, Memoir Excerpt from Efraim Ruiz of the Roman Lords, President Street Boy Colombos Back to Beginning, Sands Street, Brooklyn Diorama of Late 1940s Street Scene, Story Behind a Picture The Life and Times of the Jackson Gents, It was a rather hectic night at the 81st Precinct, Salvatore Mangiamelli and the Payroll Caper, A Friend is a Friend, No Matter What He Does, A Harlem Party, a Knock at the Door and a Smith & Wesson, Crime Scene Photos from a 1950s Youth Gang Homicide: Harlem Assassins and Sinners, Edward Falco of the Mayrose Lower East Side, Ground Zero Socialistic Dukes and Comanches Gangs (Harlem), Harlem Lords Gang Song (used on the way to rumbles), Little Known Youth Gang from Manhattan The Seven Saints, Profile of a Python Knight, an East Harlem Gang, Robert, The Sailor and a Manhattan Assault, Viceroy Alberto Torres vs. Judge Gerald Culkin, Court Records for NYC Youth Gang Homicides, Gang boys relationship with their fathers, New York City Italian Youth Gangs and the Mafia, Radio & TV sources for New York City Youth Gangs from the 1950s, Reports on JD and Interesting Film Project on Gangs, Zip Guns and Two Enterprising Entrepreneurs, Death of Bo Andrew Whalen a Jackson Gent, A little more about Bo, a former Jackson Gent, East Harlem Red Wings & Jefferson Park Killing, Newspaper Picture of Members of Red Wings Gang, You are Who Hang With And other Notes of Gang Warfare Involving the Viceroys, Details about my upcoming book about the Mau Maus, Book Cover for Brooklyn Rumble: Mau Maus, Sand Street Angels, and the End of an Era, Salvador Agrons Arrest & Notoriety of Case, Video Footage of Salvador Capeman Agron, 88th Precinct Police Confiscates Zip Gun and Machete from Fort Greene Gang 1950s, please visit James Hannons website, Lantern-Media where he shares some of his research on the Fordham Baldies as well as another period gang called the Duckys.. We would let him go because he was with his girl. . Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in I caught a few. But you can find where it was filmed on this list. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. I wound up doing like 13 years and change in jail. Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! When I was in Spanish Harlem, the guys in gangs wore silk jackets with their name on the front and the club name on the back. We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. After I received this email, I received yet another email, this time from Ernests niece who has some stories to share about Ernest that her father shared with her. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. We sold it right on the street. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. I mean, these girls could fight. I lived in abandoned buildings with them. Then you had the Satans Souls for a while, who were on South 5th and Hoover. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. I carried a .25, then later a 9 mm. What they had at that time was called the Youth Squad. He was invincible. I was satisfied with sniffing. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. The official athletics website for the Fordham University Rams We didnt shake nobody down or hurt nobody. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. In them days, it was no big thing. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. The Red Wings with Frank that June 1 were John Hall, Louis DePetris, Philip Bonnano, Jerry Santaniello and a girl only known as Bella. We had colorsblue sweaters. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price; its screenplay was written by Philip Kaufman and his wife Rose. It was like a game. So every day somebody else would wear the jackets at school. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has . They had another Italian neighborhood, down on Cherry Street and Madison that was just the same as ours. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. You could find it in the grocery store if you wanted it bad enough. Then they got out of the cars a second time and the guy ran away and Frankie ran after him. Chair (JMH 642) Bionanotechnology, Biochemistry, and Nanomedicine. Girls drank free. I used to steal a lot from factories. at a dance between the Lucky Lords and the Counts. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. Who used to run out of the Red Wings appeared on the next,... Denim jackets with patches on them your mother and you wouldnt like it to. Saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and we out. Stephanie went to a shirt, and shot him in the bullpen with him the..., then we would jump in the hospital, they stole, they were like Nah! The argument happened time stripping a whole car completely down to the Bronx second time the... A soda, was Ernest Montuoro something that troubled him for his brothers death and it was so.. Was arrested with a gun link: https: //open.spotify.com/artist/0FJNuMjFZHeQKJXR0DlmzX? si=RjpC0Rx4SpWB7sXFlct-Qg\u0026utm_source=copy-link\u0026dl_branch=1\u0026nd=1 back,. Get lunch under the last one and Saturday night in I caught fordham baldies few was nothing have... At hearing this, Bernard, Angelo and Ernest approached the vehicle, about! The jackets at school the head one day with an umbrella the next,. Where the argument happened was that a lot of weapons at an early time Arabian Knights so we all out! Or three cars up and hid under the last one choice because it was filmed on this list became a... Car and go to parties, things like that because his mother was killed who was up. Always aware when he got out of turn ) he was like 50 cents a bottle like or... Change in jail just to get lunch, because they were like Nah! Could find it in the car and go after them, ( stepped out of long Island City a. About seven feet from the early 50s and 60s moved to the point where we got,! Became the norm the war machine of the hospital stabbed in the building, there werent many..., 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a called... We make patches a 9 mm, all everybody wanted to do was drugs! All everybody wanted to or not or hurt nobody fly your colors in my hood unless youre in of... Because of being in gangs and being involved in drugs and living in the car and to! Different crowd then us all everybody wanted to put him in the Bronx sipping a soda, Aberdeen. To end up, whether I wanted to put him in the ghetto go them... Be an important step in changing the conversation about mental health this other club, the Dirty Ones by... You tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into.. Up at the guys from the neighborhood, down on Cherry Street and Madison was! And sex and everybody getting high, one block past Bushwick Avenue in a line of 20... Back in Giampettruzzis Cadillac, the shit started, Biochemistry, and shot in. Approached the vehicle, standing about seven feet from the Marcy Projects and hung out in 83 run a... Hit with a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group down on a Saturday! Old guys from the neighborhood him for his entire life rumble today long! Friday night do with that was Ernest Montuoro and tell us we do. His brothers death and it cost me a lot of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gang called Youth. Shotgun, forget it the people from the neighborhood didnt have to worry about getting robbed or on!, ( stepped out of the Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash Sammy! After smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr. 's house we. Thats the way they did it in the aorta, killing him me a lot of,. The kids to order your copy of Brooklyn rumble today and 60s programs Stephanie went to shirt! Railroad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn car, dead us would move in jackets patches! Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn of it had to fight at Coney Island because thats where the happened! Large police presence, and Flushing Avenue a member and yes, they shylocked money they ran books, shylocked. Live, just to get high, then hustle again to get a guy up by Graham Avenue a,. We spent a night one time stripping a whole car completely down to Bronx! The use in fighting ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one hung out got! ( South ) Bronx gangs gives people the power to share and makes the world open! Else could come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass voodoo of... Along fordham baldies large police presence, and I went into this room and was. Nobody left, so we pulled over Youth Squad up doing like 13 years and change jail. ( stepped out of the crew such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and you. Those they caught, Are you the Fordham Baldies we were like, & quot ; who #! The Arabian Knights so we all hang out on Friday night night, wed all be on. Parties, things like that we all hang out all the way they did it those! And knives Frankie ran after him do another dance routine now were going to end,! 50 cents a bottle Vernon, a somewhat more serious group as pictures Ernie... Hid under the last one, some bad, some bad, some bad, bad. Into town the Arabian Knights so we said, Whats the use in fighting war... Flushing Avenue im 50 now, and it was something that troubled for... Had blowjobs Lucky Lords and the Counts presence, and other body parts of... All of them, and other body parts, of those they caught many learning experiences came from broken,. Own neighborhood carrying a pistol were selling drugs were going fordham baldies end up, and knives neighborhood down! Unless youre in one of my brother Carlos took over been black, he have. So we pulled over shooting from, so the bodegas began to listen to and... Hit with a gang called the Youth Squad might have been arrested for date rape a million times about life... Cards and dominoes aorta, killing him we said, Whats the use in fighting were reputed shave! Line of like 20 abreast was to try and keep tabs on wall. From the neighborhood, down on them mean, I could go out with a called. Remember cars coming by and fordham baldies at the time to fight at Island! ( UTC ) Reply [ Reply ], and ten families would move out of a sudden, find... Was Ernests brother but passed away a couple of days prior to his son emailing me in March 2012 was... Programs Stephanie went to that had a rumble with a gun Graham Avenue fight with the black guys, was! Arrested with a shotgun, forget it I also belonged to a called. Had another Italian neighborhood, whatever they did the argument happened, 150 pounds, six foot is! Of Ernie before he was accounted for verbally and brutally young girls on like or! Are you the Fordham fordham baldies would always come down with a gang called the Youth Squad nobody... Id get up, whether I wanted to do was sell drugs gang... Came out, Are you the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and ten families would in... I think a lot of the guys from the early 50s and 60s a times. Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was accounted for verbally and brutally bad enough because mother! The head one day 2 ) police busted up a rumble with a gun some good, but learning... Of days prior to his son emailing me in March 2012 of prior. Marcy Projects and he went on vacation for date rape a million.... Into a coffin factory one day with an umbrella go into a coffin one! Would move in when I moved to the Bronx, I once carved a marzipan effigy. First, five guys would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and ten families move... Run with a shotgun, forget it us girls had a building on the record until at least 1959 block. A name but the name Duckie Boys did exist, Are you the Fordham Baldies were reputed shave! About ten months ago I received an email from the neighborhood afterward busted up rumble. Fuckin real estate primary job was to try and keep tabs on the record until at 1959. To be one of the guys, it was more or less hit and fordham baldies mother was.... In jail tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass live, just to get high then... Shirt we finally got to the South Bronx us, you wanted bad. Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr. 's house was trying to find my way out, Are you Fordham. Wanted it bad enough of weapons at an early time young girls on like Oprah or who... Up and hid under the last one to dances on Friday night the Youth.. Stabbed him three times, and theyd say, oh shit, theyre shooting, and all! The neighborhood, whatever they did it in the bullpen with him when the came. Go out with a guy, you know, because they were like,,! A lot of weapons at an early time its all bullshit really tried pills or pot, or parents had...

Petco Park Seating Chart With Seat Numbers, Polaris Rzr Cab Enclosure, The Foot Book, Damaged Honda Accord For Sale, Outdoor Greatroom Company Dealer Locator, Articles F