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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. 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. I would say, three out of every five shootouts, somebody would get hit. Did it help? It was a crazy neighborhood. Wed fire at a guy standing three feet away, and wed miss. Now all girls think giving a blowjob is nothing. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. A lot of shit went on. 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. We were big wine drinkers. The rivalry was like what you see in movies and worse, because gangs back then, the people they hung out with meant more to them than their family. 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. Its like a family, or the police department, or the priesthood. We were all hanging out together already, the Unknowns and the South 9s. Was a wild time growing up, some bad, some good, but many learning experiences came from those times. That was the year when it started getting real serious. Their rivals were the Harlem Dragons, who killed one of their own in 1955.The Demons who they had vicious rumbles with. You could find it in the grocery store if you wanted it bad enough. After a while, if he called the police, then we would be angry at him. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. But I lived in the streets with them. The problem with the Bronx in 1978 was there were real gangs. 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 I left my mothers house when I was 14. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. Mario felt partially responsible for his brothers death and it was something that troubled him for his entire life. We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. Basically the territory was divided by the Bronx River that ran through the park. Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. Thats the bottom line. We were in the papers more than the president. formed. If they wandered to our side of the park, Bronx Park East or we into their side there was trouble. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. When they started with the knives, we started with the zip guns. These were all pretty much in the same area and were all converted store fronts with bars. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. After a while, I realized that theynot just them, other clubs toowere being paid by the landlords to burn the buildings for the insurance. It was easier to sell. When he died, my brother Carlos took over. Sometimes. You come running through the building with the cops after you and you could run into any door. You push a guy up against a wall with a car, just push him till he hits the wall. The rest of them are scattered to the wind. 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. No matter where you went, even the toughest gangsfuckin Puerto Ricans, blacks, whateverthey wouldnt fuck with us. I never shot up. Thats when we were first coming up. Convicted Red Wings were Frank Ciappetta, Vincent Gugliemelli, Philip Bonanno, Jerry Santaniello and Frank Giampetruzzi. She used to be a dispatcher for a car service. I never robbed anybody. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. Violence back then, if you put it on a scale, Id say it was about a seven. Today, thats what the gangs call itthe Bloods, the Crips, all of them, they call it flagging: I die for my flag. Theres still a lot of people around. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. Unknown Bikers were just big in Williamsburg, South 9 Bikers the same. That was it. I swear to God. Giampetruzzi, Bonano, Santanielli and the rest of the Red Wings high tailed it out of the Bronx back to East Harlem, seething over the insults and plotting revenge. He was out on the street. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. Me and my brother are probably the only ones that dont have a bike. the Saracen Lords and the Nobles. Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. 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. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. Back in those days, we always had a clubhouse. Life magazine ran a big story on us. A lot of them I met through fighting with them. Wasnt too much of a fight. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. Often it was handled one on? It didnt begin as a crime thing. 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. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. 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. That was the big thing. My brother Alex started wearing patches when he was hanging out with this other club, the Dirty Ones. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. We sold it right on the street. So I ran down the block, and theres a restaurant there, still exists to this day, and I went into the restaurant because I knew the owner. We never went crazy in our neighborhood, and whoever did, they would hear about it from us the next day. I went over to the South 9th Bikers in early 1980, the same year I went to jail. I was always aware. 42nd Street was like a neutral area, unless you ran into clubs from different boroughs. I used to steal a lot from factories. He didnt see where I was shooting from, so I ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one. So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. There would be a fight set up, and we told you to be there at seven oclock. 90K views 13 years ago Gang turf of the Corona Dukes, Arthur Avenue Boys, and the Fordham Baldies. Then, you know, the blacks started coming in and naturally there was tension and we banded together. We didnt even have to do anything. And they wouldnt flip colors. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. We were fighting with everybody. I was like, What the hell is this? Then, slowly but surely, I started to gravitate towards them. You wanna have a game of football? or sometimes wed say, F youse, were gonna come down and kick your asses. When we were drinking, wed scream down at them, Hey, you fuckin black bastards! Wed say something racial, you know? Sometimes wed say, Come on up. There would be 20 or 25 of them and 20 or 25 of us. The Micheal Farmer killing was an incident that happened during the showing of West They were a big crewwhite gang, mostly Italian. I saw a lot of people get killed and a lot of people go to jail. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. In football, the Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision. Meanwhile, a local gang, the Fordham Baldies, menacing blacks and Hispanics in Roosevelt's vicinity, kept enrollment overwhelmingly white. He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on Who was I supposed to hang out with? Indeed, I started this at someone else's suggestion, with the understanding that s/he would pick up from there. I got my head split open with a piano leg one night too. Fordham Baldies is on Facebook. We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. 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. Us, the Chaplains, and the Spanish guys all got together and they gave us an ultimatum: Either we made peace or we were gonna start going to jail. In fact, sometimes the girls would rumble with other clubs without the guys knowing. 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. All those clubs that were fighting back then hang out together now. John Gotti, too. After the Kennedy assassination, somebody opened up the door and let the drugs in. The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. It started as a dance club, and as things happened in the clubarguments and fightsit became a gang. areas at 8 PM. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. We spent a couple nights in jail. 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. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. 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. 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. The story is really about our group of friends, our football team and yes, a rival crowd on the other side of Bronx Park. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. 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. 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. Then you had all these other little clubs in between. Its something you die for, like a flag. The Dukes were on Roebling and South 3rd, over to South 1st. This guy was always strapped. But it isnt like we were setting out to take over the building. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. They were like, Whos the president? and a couple of guys went over, and we had this truce. They. one fistfights and it would be over. Finally the Youth Squadthe special police squad they set up just to deal with the gang problemgot involved. So they kept the neighborhood. It was just: This is your part of Brooklyn, this is my part of Brooklyn. It got to the point where you couldnt walk outside of a radius of five or ten blocks. 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. The book is 6x9 and has 370 pages! 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. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. We protected women. I wasnt hit too often. When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. The Viceroys were a Puerto Rican gang from 103rd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues. Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. That was a typical day. Wed have sticks, bats, clubs, and bottles, and wed just beat the heck out of each other until the cops came or until we got tired of it. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. But it made a big noise and a flash of light. Thats how I used to get my money. I mean, these girls could fight. Everything was about turf. We buried each others brothers too much. There was hookers toohookers is what we mostly fucked. In September 1979 or 80, there was a big fire. That was my opportunity. We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. It was a mixed group, Italians, Blacks and Irish boys who had grown up together. 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. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. Overdosed, stuff like that. Any girl that wasnt a virgin, if you went out with her you couldnt let her get away, because there werent many around. A 25 year-old hanger- There was a lot of acrimony between the Red Wings and Puerto Rican gangs from East Harlem like the Dragons and Viceroys. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. The Red Wings with Frank that June 1 were John Hall, Louis DePetris, Philip Bonnano, Jerry Santaniello and a girl only known as Bella. 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 removed the references to Brooklyn gangs in popular culture - does not make any sense to have them there - this article is not about Brooklyn. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. And the drugs? 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. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. Astoria. The ending was tragic and if one were keeping score on such a grim topic, the Red Wings came out on top. When this second son was born, Ernests widow moved to California leaving everyone and everything behind. I mean, I could have been arrested for date rape a million times. Sometimes people got hit by cars. I never did, but I know there were guys in the gang that did. We had colorsblue sweaters. Now they were even stronger, hardened by. It could more than double in size at that point. Baldies wounded.Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. down on them. This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. 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 he became the President of the Majestics. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? I stayed in there for what seemed like three hours, but it was probably 15 minutes. They heard that the Italian Dukes were brother gangs with the Fordham Baldies, so if you were walking around with an Italian Dukes jacket, they didnt fuck with you. There were six of them and two of us. The 2 external links that I supplied give a lot more detail and documentation, and I suggest that the next editor of this piece start there. Chemistry Faculty. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. Even today, in 2012, the Fordham Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to. Their members use racial epithets to describe their rivals. We would hang out in these abandoned buildings that we had electricity running into. Or cite a source, of course. Third, some more trivia. A close knit group that consisted mainly of blacks and Puerto Ricans, FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? It was something for show. At that time you could buy the Robitussin AC, with codeine. He must have had a vest, cause let me tell you, this guy had fucking balls. Me and him got along because there was no competition and we really loved each other. We had a gang that started in high school. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. 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. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. of the day,' black leather jackets dungarees and boots. A lot of my buddies went in. 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. The Ducky was not predominantly irish or anything else, but yes, we were certainly a 'large' group. The two toughest guys would fight it out, and that was how it worked. This guy Georgie Grout, he had a car antenna and he threw it down and this guy must have been, I dunno, 40 feet away? This page is not available in other languages. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. Lot of guys went to jail. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. I could make up to $20. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. Thats how the whole biker thing came about first. A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. These are the people that we grew up with. 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. We had everything sold by sunrise. It was an opportunistic thing. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. I would buy it from Italian guys over on Avenue D, but not guys that we actually knew. 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. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. 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 . What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. Here's the spotify link:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FJNuMjFZHeQKJXR0DlmzX?si=RjpC0Rx4SpWB7sXFlct-Qg\u0026utm_source=copy-link\u0026dl_branch=1\u0026nd=1 Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! Not every club was friendly. We made sure nobody messed with them. They werent allowed to date outside girls. From Spanish Harlem, we moved to the South Bronx. If it aint from close range, you just have to wait for the pellets to come out later. He lived like that for a long time. I never jumped anybody. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. 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. One time, something had happened so I went looking for this guy to get him. I used to hide sometimes on the corner and wait for him, just hoping to get him. I think I shot two or three times with my .25 before it jammed. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. We used to make choppers with four- and six-polesextensions, you know? The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. At the same time, Henry remembers . Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. I was a heroin addict from the age of maybe 13 to 17, but not like a falling-down addict. 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 . Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. Ducking from shootouts and things like that. If he was alone, he got his ass kicked. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. To make a zip gun you buy a cap gun. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams You have every type of person in every club. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. Girls drank free. Then of course the cops picked up on it, and it got to be really tough. But you can find where it was filmed on this list. I gave her two bucks and I came in about two seconds, then went home and jerked off ten times thinking about it. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. 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. If you want to see somebodys colors, you walk around the back and look at them. If anything, wed protect them. At the end they looked like gladiators. So it was an epidemic, but an economic type of epidemic. The Fordham Rams are members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for most sports. We were so fuckin' broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. If I had to stick you, I would stick you. Then you were on file. But there were girls where I had to kick their ass. He got hit in the head with a two-by-four, and it numbed him. Belmont Avenue, near East 189th Street. It also made us brother clubs with the Redwings, who were in East Harlem. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. Before we started getting high on dope, we were sniffing glue. But it wasnt like they asked us to. From time to time, wed bump into them and theyd make fun of us like, Hey, we got your park. In them days, it was no big thing. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. Our turf was Lee Avenue and Lynch Street. All these people laying down on cots and shit, with these pipes, and one guy tending them. 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. The Unknowns used to be from Union to Rodney, Metropolitan to like South 4th. 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