Some of the cops knew us too. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. Theyd hang around. But thats the way they did it in those days. I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. This time we were up on the roofs throwing things down on them: Bricks, bottles, cans you could kill somebody if you hit em with a garbage can of rocks from 50 feet up. Wed get high and go into the city. I went into the service in 66. I wasnt hit too often. When you left your house you had to worry about somebody grabbing you and kicking your ass. We quit school at 16, and we went up to the park, we drank wine, and we ran up and down the street beating each other up. Id be there for a few hours. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. I left it, but recommend changing that line. That was a typical day. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. bayonets, brass knuckles, and garrison belts before officers swoop Nobody ever bothered to call the cops, because everybody wanted to just take care of him. He got hit in the head with a two-by-four, and it numbed him. "When they were shooting the recruiting scene with the Fordham Baldies," Price recalled, "the actors were hanging out on the intersection of the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road right by Alexander's Department Store and Loew's Paradise, this massive Moorish movie palace. Who was I supposed to hang out with? After the Kennedy assassination, somebody opened up the door and let the drugs in. NYC Youth Gangs - 1950s. I would say, three out of every five shootouts, somebody would get hit. I think snuff is much worse than cocaine. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. People hustled their money. We rumbled with their guys, and that started a war between the clubs. 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. The only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. 42nd Street was like Mecca, where all the gangs would hang out on Friday night. We werent selling, we were just using. In fact, all three people who were involved in the murder ended up dying within three years of it. But there were girls where I had to kick their ass. You just couldnt believe it. But it made a big noise and a flash of light. This event took place in Washington Heights, That was East New York. Their members use racial epithets to describe their rivals. They knew it was my kid brother, but all the witnesses were saying it was me. We went to Seward Park High School, and it was mostly Jews. My childrens fatherwe had five children togetherhe and I slept in abandoned cars and buildings, what we called clubhouses. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. 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 hung around Aberdeen Park. The Fordham Baldies in a way were my first singing group, They would back up my singing and guitar playing in my Bronx Neighborhood, Schoolyard Parties, Our Clubroom Dances,1956, 1957 This was from a roof maybe four stories up. Its like a family, or the police department, or the priesthood. down on them. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. Such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and long disruptions. I heard that he was like that because his mother was killed. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. I never shot up. And sometimes it didnt. Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! He used to shake when he walked and shit like that. Right now, the Majestics is a motorcycle club. You showed up at the park at seven and we walked down Bushwick Avenue and wed do what we had to do. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. I lost my virginity at like 14. Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. If you had war with somebody, then you could walk around their block wearing your colors, trying to be funny. Even today, in 2012, the Fordham Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to. 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. After 1940, the Jewish population faded and their diaspora paved the way for the hispanics to settle there. There were also after school programs Stephanie went to that had a lot of activities for the kids. That was the year when it started getting real serious. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. I started hanging out with the Unknown Bikers around 1975, and I became one in 1976. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! The problem with that was, if you snatched one of their hats in the wrong neighborhood, youd have a hell of a chase. 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. 1954 Red Wings & Fordham Baldies The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. Because we were like brothers. 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. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. Homicide Dozen, The Hustlers, The Web, El Kavons, Cobras, and The Murder Junkies. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. Not every club was friendly. 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. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. The balcony on 204th and the 'tunnels', and the whole area surrounding Twin Lakes was our turf! We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. Little by little the white gang broke up. She used to be a dispatcher for a car service. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. Our drug of choice then was heroin. 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. Inside, sipping a soda, was Ernest Montuoro. We went to Our Lady of Lourdes Grammar School on Aberdeen Street. Finally the Youth Squadthe special police squad they set up just to deal with the gang problemgot involved. He couldnt show up to collect his rent. When wed fight with the black guys, it was more or less hit and run. But I never did. The biggest place we would go was the Starship. So a lot of guys ODd. Wed get harassed by the cops all the time, but then again, that was a time when if you had a fight on the street, the cops would grab you, kick you in the ass, and send you on your way like, Get outta here. We had everything sold by sunrise. Basically, the Dirty Ones was the only gang that was friendly with us. 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. They were like, Oh, its not bad. 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. That was it. Everybody knew who we were. The book is 6x9 and has 370 pages! You went home, you needed a couple of stitches, you know, you went to the neighborhood drugstore, you got butterfly stitches. I never wore colors. It was a bunch of detectives whose primary job was to try and keep tabs on the gangs and see what was going on. It made more money. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. In September 1979 or 80, there was a big fire. Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. 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. His laugh reflex got fucked-up. To make a zip gun you buy a cap gun. 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. At school, a high school teacher accidentally sparks a race riot between the Italian gang the Wanderers and the Black gang the Del-Bombers. Bernard Caleo and Angelo DiVincenzo were seated on the stoop in front of the candy store, unaware of what was about to happen. He was from the Marcy Projects and he would always come down with a gun. I was from one side of the Southside, and the Unknowns were from the other side. Im 46 now and Im still with this thing. So it was an epidemic, but an economic type of epidemic. But they looked at us and they said, It was Alicat So it was Alicat. I didnt do that. But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. Teenage Gangs Kill One, Injure Six: one shot and killed, one stabbed, and four beaten in a gang fight He suffers from asthma. I guess some guys, you know, went with them. A lot of times, people would come back all beat up and bruised. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. You come running through the building with the cops after you and you could run into any door. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. Like 12 or 13. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. I mean, I know I never did it. The rest of them are scattered to the wind. FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? The next time you went to the club, theyd be there and it would be like, Oh, we had a fight with these guys last time. And I think using full years instead of century description is better. When we were on Lee Avenue there was this black guy. It was on 42nd between Eighth and Ninth in the back of a parking lot. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. That wasnt allowed in that neighborhood because that old lady may be some big shot gangsters relative. I lived down the block from an armory, and there was a sergeant who would come every morning and buy seven bags of dope. Our gang was the wiseguys, you know what I mean? I gave her two bucks and I came in about two seconds, then went home and jerked off ten times thinking about it. It was because of who you were. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. Mostly we drank wine. Unlike the idiotic movie the wanderers, however, they didn't have any blacks in the gang, they went around to other neighborhoods to see if they could find some to beat up. A lot of my buddies went in. Everyone pleaded not-guilty and a trial proceeded the following year in April 1955. I left my mothers house when I was 14. On any given weekend night, as you reached the 'balcony', you started the Ducky 'whistle'. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. That was all tongue in cheek. He didnt see where I was shooting from, so I ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one. It goes something like this: While at school, a rumour makes the rounds that the Baldies are coming to the school (insert school name here). Students are in an uproar and are on pins and needles, waiting for a Baldy invasion. 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 a riot on Fulton Street one time, and thats what we did. "I was a member of that Ducky gang, did some streetsmart growing up with them. Chair (JMH 642) Bionanotechnology, Biochemistry, and Nanomedicine. The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. This page is not available in other languages. Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. had zip-guns. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. After a while, if he called the police, then we would be angry at him. Fordham Baldies is on Facebook. There were like 20 of us. 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. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. That was our block, so we had to protect everybody from other people who would come in and mess up the block. Its even like that now. They were with them most of the day. You have your murderers, your rapists, your thieves. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. Lot of guys went to jail. I was always aware. The year given is the year of the film's release or first season of the series. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with I could make up to $20. There would be a fight set up, and we told you to be there at seven oclock. Once you drink a couple gallons of that wine, youre ready to go. Fordham Baldies: As their name suggests, they are all bald, reportedly to prevent their hair from getting in their eyes during a fight. It went right through his forearm. At the same time, Henry remembers . Before we started getting high on dope, we were sniffing glue. It didnt begin as a crime thing. If he was alone, he got his ass kicked. 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. They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. They had high collars, buttoned down, and on the back you had RR. But we didnt really go out of our way too much with the sweaters and the costumes. But you can find where it was filmed on this list. He was able to shed some light on his father Mario and how he felt about Ernests death at the hands of the Red Wings. He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. They talked about it, shook hands, and then we were brother clubs. All these people laying down on cots and shit, with these pipes, and one guy tending them. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. 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. Sometimes people got hit by cars. Usually it was chains or sticks; knives and zip guns occasionally. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. 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). True, that could be any college. NYC. *Click on Fullscreen to see the full trial minutes*. Dukes, as they were waiting for the "Chaplins" (Chaplains) to arrive. The Woodside Chiefs were a Pop Warner, multi-division, football team from 1955 thru 1965. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. 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. So thats how it happened. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. This guy was always strapped. One of our guys got stabbed 20 times by the Flaming Satans. When he died, my brother Carlos took over. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. We had a clubhouse. They were called the Flaming Satans. But that was once in a while, you know? If anyone stepped in, (stepped out of turn) he was accounted for verbally and brutally. When I stepped off the train, I saw all these abandoned buildings, and every night there were the sirens of the fire trucks, and people being displaced, crying, no place to go. I'm kind of busy so don't know if I can do much here, but if I come across things that are relevant, I'll add them. But as things started to change and people started with the drugs, making money off of it, a lot of violence erupted. 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. But when wed fight the Spanish guys, theyd stand there. That was the big thing. So this guy started going off with everybody. Unlike the idiotic movie the wanderers, however, they didn't have any blacks in the gang, they went around to other neighborhoods to see if they could find some to beat up. We came into a lot of weapons at an early time. They were like, Whos the president? and a couple of guys went over, and we had this truce. They werent really that strong of a weapon. We made sure nobody messed with them. You have to flip your colors. They started getting nasty. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. We were able to do that, whereas the newcomers werent. 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. John Gotti, too. the Saracen Lords and the Nobles. 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. The landlord wasnt going to come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass. But that didnt last too long once they got used to it. 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. The Woodside Chiefs, teenage boys, were self funded. We sold it right on the street. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. It was just that I started hanging out over here more than over at the other side. The Ducky was not predominantly irish or anything else, but yes, we were certainly a 'large' group. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. A lot of shit went on. I used to walk around with a gun every day. That was the end of him. The quarterback of the Lynvettes, Thomas "Tommy" Wall, a Woodsider and former Chief QB said about the Chiefs "in the off season we were a gang." If youre in my club, I take you at face value. 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. Sweater by United Bamboo, jeans by Levis. In fact, we protected people. Did it help? We ran out of a restaurant without paying one time, ran down into this building, and they had like catacombs. The gangs started separating. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. We burned fires in the tunnels in the winter to stay warm, and we went swimming in the Bronx river when it was hot. Houston Street down to Canal, and Bowery over to Lafayette. However, when they got there, the Fordham Baldies who had been frequenting Orchard Beach on a regular basis, found out the Red Wings were hanging out on Section 17 of the beach. Or cite a source, of course. Then, you know, the blacks started coming in and naturally there was tension and we banded together. In football, the Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision. So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. Our "uniform" was teal bowling shirts with black velvet vertical stripes. 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 . Heroin was a big thing in the 60s. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). At that time you could buy the Robitussin AC, with codeine. I always sniffed. Thats how the whole biker thing came about first. Everybody kept their eyes open. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. There was always some guy who got beat up and they took the sweater and we had to go find out who took it and get it back. The battle lines between opposing armies had already We didnt even have to do anything. I would buy it from Italian guys over on Avenue D, but not guys that we actually knew. If we had a problem between us, wed all go meet over at City Hall and wear different color bandanas so people knew where you were from. It was like a game. Set in the Bronx in 1963, the film follows a gang of Italian-American teenagers known as the Wanderers and their ongoing power struggles with rival gangs such as the Baldies and the Wongs. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. You have every type of person in every club. They help people out. I remember the older guys coming around and passing the word that if any white kid in the neighborhood stole an old ladys pocketbook, they would have their hands and legs broken. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. Forget about iteverywhere you went, every corner, the drugs were there. For about ten minutes the two groups faced off against each other, calling each other names, threatening each other, and in the Baldies case, jeering Bella. I got my head split open with a piano leg one night too. I got arrested October 1980, came home December 1993. It was an opportunistic thing. I think that had a lot to do with the fact that I wasnt a member. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. 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. In the summer we were always out there, like 15 or 20 of us, sitting on the steps in summer, drinking beer, and bullshitting. Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. The guys and I would go and take it and strip the parts off and hed get his insurance. I wound up doing like 13 years and change in jail. That was right before the Kennedy assassination. Meanwhile, a local gang, the Fordham Baldies, menacing blacks and Hispanics in Roosevelt's vicinity, kept enrollment overwhelmingly white. What was so funny was that a lot of the people were intermingled, family-wise. 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. And the drugs? That freaked me out. You have it all. If the cops wanted to see who was who, they just had to look there on Friday and Saturday night because everybody wore their patches, all dressed up down to their boots. Ernests son is now 58 years old and just now found out about his familys history in New York City. Mostly it was breaking into factories in Brooklyn. Pichon, President of the original Latin Kings of Highbridge Park, '63, currently living in the West Coast. 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. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. It was about territory. 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