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Heroin was a big thing in the 60s. Like I remember coming home and having my sister-in-law crying, and I would walk in the house and make believe I didnt know why. Wake him up, hustle. Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. 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. I doubt anyone walking down the street knew that in 1954 Ernest was killed and Bernard and Angelo were severely injured in a gang war. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. At the end they looked like gladiators. They were like, Whos the president? and a couple of guys went over, and we had this truce. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. Everybody else ran. It was an opportunistic thing. Its something you die for, like a flag. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. It didnt begin as a crime thing. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. On a warm Saturday night, wed all be up on the hill. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. You push a guy up against a wall with a car, just push him till he hits the wall. We didnt even have to do anything. There would be a fight set up, and we told you to be there at seven oclock. When I did get arrested, my little brothermay he rest in peacehe was involved. They were like, Oh, its not bad. One of my friends who I wanted to get high with said, You wanna get high, you gotta watch this. And he shot up and he said, Im doing this so you can see what I do, and I said, I dont want nothing to do with that. And I never did it. DiVincenzo and Caleo were both members of the Baldies but had no criminal record. 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. I would buy it from Italian guys over on Avenue D, but not guys that we actually knew. My brother Alex started wearing patches when he was hanging out with this other club, the Dirty Ones. That was when the neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Italian. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. A close knit group that consisted mainly of blacks and Puerto Ricans, Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. Because if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you took an ass whupping. But that was once in a while, you know? That means turn your jacket around or take it off. at a dance between the Lucky Lords and the Counts. I never wore Property of. In the gang, the girls used to have to wear Property of on their jackets. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in I was too young to know much about them, except that everyone was afraid of them. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. Any gear you could put on, no matter how hot or cold it was, you went to 42nd and wore your colors proudly. Over the course of one or two summers, they outnumbered us. Wed drink Night Train. Puerto Ricans were moving into East Harlem at greater rates as the 1950s progressed. But that didnt last too long once they got used to it. I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. Me and a couple friends of mine went to a hooker. One of our guys got stabbed 20 times by the Flaming Satans. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. You have it all. To Manhattan, then back across the bridge, and once we got to Brooklyn they would just split off to their side and wed keep driving to our side, like it was nothing. They didnt like me too much. In fact, we protected people. I left in Mean Streets temporarily, but I am pretty sure that the Little Italy it depicted was Manhattan's, and therefore it should be out as well. I remember my first encounter with a drive-by. They werent very accurate, either. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. They gave my brother a summons, and I stood in jail for a decade and change. Lots of guys were fucking up, but all I wanted was to have our club, and for everybody to have bikes and go places together and ride. I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. The fordam baldies aka belmont baldies aka baldie mob shaved their heads as far back as the 1940's and hung out at a candy store on belmont between 189th and fordham. You came, you hung out, you drank a bottle of wine, you went crazy like everybody else. It could more than double in size at that point. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. With that money Id buy wine and cigarettes. It got to a point where a gang called the Fordham Baldieswho were like the biggest Italian gang in the Bronxheard about us and came down and made us a brother club. 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 . You have your murderers, your rapists, your thieves. The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. Bucks, the Gents and the Garrisons gangs. It was a crazy neighborhood. When this second son was born, Ernests widow moved to California leaving everyone and everything behind. If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. Did it help? There were opium dens down in Chinatown. I used to steal a lot from factories. Even some of the names used are real. In them days, it was no big thing. My brothers were making money selling drugs but I didnt want to get into it. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. The Fordham Baldies were one of the gangs featured in the movie "The Wanderer". That was the end of him. All of us went to school together. Ill be honest with you, the Spanish guys had a little more guts than the black guys. They were going back to the Bronx to pay the Baldies a visit they would never forget. Chemistry Faculty. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. Eventually, if you hung out in that neighborhood you tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into town. I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. We had a riot on Fulton Street one time, and thats what we did. And of course, you dont let nobody take your colors. I was 13 or 14 when I started. That was East New York. I lived down the block from an armory, and there was a sergeant who would come every morning and buy seven bags of dope. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. On any given weekend night, as you reached the 'balcony', you started the Ducky 'whistle'. 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. Anyway, we werent vicious kids. On the next block, one block past Bushwick Avenue, was Aberdeen Park. We sold it right on the street. For everybodyespecially our people but even for strangers, what we called Merigans, like Ameriganswe had respect for all of them. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. At that time I was doing a lot of harm to the Dukes, and the cops figured, lets get him off the streets. We had colorsblue sweaters. The ending was tragic and if one were keeping score on such a grim topic, the Red Wings came out on top. I proposed some sections, but there is still lots of work to be done. About ten months ago I received an email from the son of Mario Montuoro. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. Their members use racial epithets to describe their rivals. I got convicted for a gang-related manslaughter. In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety. 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. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. 42nd Street was like Mecca, where all the gangs would hang out on Friday night. I think he got arrested. They were called the Flaming Satans. I was 12 or 13. formed. We were fighting with everybody. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. All these people laying down on cots and shit, with these pipes, and one guy tending them. 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. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. 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. The guys in the restaurants were cool with us, and in return, we took care of them. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. We started saying, Why dont we make patches? And finally we did. Nobody fights to hurt anymore. It got to a point where a gang called the Fordham Baldieswho were like the biggest Italian gang in the Bronxheard about us and came down and made us a brother club. There were also after school programs Stephanie went to that had a lot of activities for the kids. One time, something had happened so I went looking for this guy to get him. 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. You wanted to teach him a lesson. I didnt do that. Read more about Bronx Gangs (1950s1960s): Popular Culture, who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Batteryto holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and childrenbrought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain and drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo,Allen Ginsberg (b. There were six of them and two of us. 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. Both Frank and Vincent were packing fully loaded automatic pistols. They werent really that strong of a weapon. He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. We were in the papers more than the president. This event took place in Washington Heights, The Woodside Chiefs were a Pop Warner, multi-division, football team from 1955 thru 1965. These are the people that we grew up with. During this time, both began to listen to rock and roll and go to dances on Friday Night. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. We ran out of a restaurant without paying one time, ran down into this building, and they had like catacombs. But when wed fight the Spanish guys, theyd stand there. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. Once again, I wanted to go out with someone who was in that gang. We burned fires in the tunnels in the winter to stay warm, and we went swimming in the Bronx river when it was hot. With a peculiar frequency, a click of the cable remote shows the Fordham Baldies hanging out at the corner of Fordham Road and Grand Concourse, the foot chase through 1963 central Bronx alleyways . He lived like that for a long time. But you can find where it was filmed on this list. Me and him got along because there was no competition and we really loved each other. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on They said, Why should I buy drugs to sell when I can steal his and sell them? It happened all the time. 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. There were like 20 of us. If it aint from close range, you just have to wait for the pellets to come out later. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. He was out on the street. I used to walk around with a gun every day. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. Back then, if a car sat for a day, wed strip it. on/associate of the Baldies was killed--shot to the head, and two We were never really into robbing people. You went home, you needed a couple of stitches, you know, you went to the neighborhood drugstore, you got butterfly stitches. To this day, we still hang out, and wed do anything for each other. The Brooklyn clubs were OK, but the clubs from the Bronx and Queensthe Savage Skulls, the Nomadsthey could cause some problems. It was just a lucky shot and it went right through this guys arm. You know, if somebody needed to get high, you made sure they got high; if someone got locked up, you make sure when they got out, you threw a party. Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. When wed fight with the black guys, it was more or less hit and run. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. He used to shake when he walked and shit like that. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. The father ended up getting most of them back after people started getting arrested with them, because he came home and reported them stolen. John Gotti, too. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. If you want to see somebodys colors, you walk around the back and look at them. The last thing we wanted was heat on the block. Their rivals were the Harlem Dragons, who killed one of their own in 1955.The Demons who they had vicious rumbles with. I was from one side of the Southside, and the Unknowns were from the other side. From Spanish Harlem, we moved to the South Bronx. Having an Active Minds Chapter in your school can be an important step in changing the conversation about mental health. There were real gangsters around too. Not in my memory! Theres a lot of people walking around messed up to this day, and a lot of people dead. Youd be saying, I dont give a shit who you are, calling the club out. 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. I'll always have the memories of those times. Some people were robbing other gangs for their drugs. I knew so many people that everybody would open their doors for me. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. They didnt look like they bathed. It took a lot of people out. We made sure nobody messed with them. On Tuesday, June 1, 1954 at around noon hour, six Red Wings arrived at Orchard Beach, the Bronx in a dark-coloured 41 Cadillac, driven by Frank Giampetruzzi who was AWOL from Camp Dix. 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. Overdosed, stuff like that. Life magazine ran a big story on us. All except the sadistic Ducky Boys who seem to suddenly materialize at the opportune moment, are more like social clubs and do little besides partying and hanging out. Then he became the President of the Majestics. Wed break into cars, stuff like that. 90K views 13 years ago Gang turf of the Corona Dukes, Arthur Avenue Boys, and the Fordham Baldies. Jumping back in Giampettruzzis Cadillac, the five Red Wings headed back to Orchard Beach. Everybody knew who we were. Sweater by United Bamboo, jeans by Levis. If you walked by somebodys block, they would chase you, shoot at you, and beat you down if they caught you. My mentality wasnt, I have to join that gang. It was, I like the guy, the guy likes me. Before you knew it, I married the president of the gang. 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. People started making money on their own and they forgot about their buddies. We were always armed. The book is 6x9 and has 370 pages! The problem with that was, if you snatched one of their hats in the wrong neighborhood, youd have a hell of a chase. Me and a few other guys started making a lot of noise, you know, fighting all these other gangs. 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. They help people out. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. We hung around Aberdeen Park. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. Nobody ever bothered to call the cops, because everybody wanted to just take care of him. Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. I think I shot two or three times with my .25 before it jammed. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. It was something for show. It went right through his forearm. Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. Join Facebook to connect with Fordham Baldies and others you may know. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. I ran up and down the fire escape, taking a lot of the tenants out. The year given is the year of the film's release or first season of the series. He had hair just like mussolini in real life, and I'm the princess of canada although I can't offically back that up with paperwork. Plus, if you had a leather jacket on and I shot you, chances are the bullet wouldnt even go through the jacket. Theres still a lot of people around. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. All the defendants were found guilty and the shooters Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were sent to prison for twenty years. So there wasnt one particular reason. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. And sometimes it didnt. 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. At about 4:55 p.m. after asking around where the Baldies hung out, the Red Wings rolled up on Piggys Candy store, double parking in front. I got my head split open with a piano leg one night too. The son made it seem like it was a burglary, and we made off with all his weapons. The '50s and '60's were a time when loyalty actually meant esteem, consequence, and prestige. I go to a funeral now and I dont even cry. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. The bond between people who were in gangs was amazing. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. When you left your house you had to worry about somebody grabbing you and kicking your ass. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. 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 film is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price; its screenplay was written by Philip Kaufman and his wife Rose. So it was an epidemic, but an economic type of epidemic. They parked the Caddy and settled in at Section 17 of Orchard Beach which at the time was divided into 27 sections (now it is divided into 13 sections). All the gangs were there: The Sportsmen, that was a big black gang, pretty tough guys, and the Dragons, that was the Puerto Rican gang. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. Im 46 now and Im still with this thing. You could see how things escalated. That was when the Bronx was burning. The only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. Somebody else could come and rob your mother and you wouldnt like it. We rumbled with their guys, and that started a war between the clubs. Our turf was Lee Avenue and Lynch Street. I left it, but recommend changing that line. We used to make choppers with four- and six-polesextensions, you know? The two toughest guys would fight it out, and that was how it worked. It was because of who you were. For more information on the Baldies, 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. In the case I am talking about here, there are no school rumours about a Baldie invasion. Looking to gather allies to their fight as the Del-Bombers have bigger numbers, The Wanderers get rejected (humiliatingly) by the Fordham Baldies and by the Chinese Wongs. So a lot of guys ODd. I went over to the South 9th Bikers in early 1980, the same year I went to jail. If anything happened to one of us, we had all of these guys. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. 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 . Then another five would do another dance routine, and it became like a fucking dance-off. I got locked up in 80 and came out in 83. We had everything sold by sunrise. Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). We were coming down Freeman Street to the club, and they started calling us out. A car can sit on the street two or three days today. So wed take the apartment over. It was just that I started hanging out over here more than over at the other side. 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 Fonzie from Happy Days. BRONX, UPTOWN SPADES,HARLEM TURKETTES, SATAN ANGELS, SAVAGE SKULLS, ROYAL JAVILINS, GESTAPO CREW, THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION, and THE REAPERS 1ST DIV/MAIN DIV/ AND Juniors. Right now, the Majestics is a motorcycle club. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. Like 12 or 13. 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 . That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. 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. It was a bunch of detectives whose primary job was to try and keep tabs on the gangs and see what was going on. Then you had all these other little clubs in between. Before we started getting high on dope, we were sniffing glue. The balcony on 204th and the 'tunnels', and the whole area surrounding Twin Lakes was our turf! Problem-wise, you know, we had a few here and there. After a while, I realized that theynot just them, other clubs toowere being paid by the landlords to burn the buildings for the insurance. The memories are all roughly the same, or close to it. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. One summer, we got into it with the Spanish gang. Sometimes. 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