But I wasnt there, I just wound up getting accused of it. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. A close knit group that consisted mainly of blacks and Puerto Ricans, Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. You go to parties and see a lot of the same faces. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the You know what beer muscles are, right? When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. These are the people that we grew up with. Even some of the names used are real. It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. Ill be honest with you, the Spanish guys had a little more guts than the black guys. The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. If two women came into a bar, they never paid for a drink and nobody even went over to talk to them. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. We went for the cheap wine. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. He must have had a vest, cause let me tell you, this guy had fucking balls. They. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The Now they were even stronger, hardened by. But there were girls where I had to kick their ass. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. If you want to see somebodys colors, you walk around the back and look at them. banerjee@fordham.edu. That happened a lot. 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. The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. 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. We all got along. One of our guys got stabbed 20 times by the Flaming Satans. I started hanging out with the Unknown Bikers around 1975, and I became one in 1976. We were so fuckin broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. I never shot up. They banded together too, and thats the way it went. The Ducky was not predominantly irish or anything else, but yes, we were certainly a 'large' group. Me and him got along because there was no competition and we really loved each other. That was it. 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. I dont have any emotions anymore. We could see them from the hill. That was right before the Kennedy assassination. Its something you die for, like a flag. formed. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. They became my brothers and sisters. If you remember the scene where they tied a rope to the penises of two guys on a bridge and threw a cinder block over the side down to the a river, that was the Bronx River near French Charlie's baseball field. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. 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 They knew it was my kid brother, but all the witnesses were saying it was me. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on 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. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! I swear to God. They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. DiVincenzos elbow took another bullet, which passed through his arm. You push a guy up against a wall with a car, just push him till he hits the wall. They werent allowed to date outside girls. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. Over the course of one or two summers, they outnumbered us. So our style of dress and everything was like them. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. The Wanderers (1979) - The Fordham Baldies MOV Clips 31.8K subscribers Subscribe 178 25K views 2 years ago American comedy-drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Ken Wahl,. 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. They were all afraid of us. Baldies wounded.Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War. Right now, the Majestics is a motorcycle club. I left my mothers house when I was 14. At that point, all everybody wanted to do was sell drugs. I always used to buy magazines just to check out the bikes. We were never really into robbing people. It doesnt get any worse than that. We never really had any problem with the Hasidics. However, in this case below, the violence was actually with another white gang called the Fordham Baldies. They gave my brother a summons, and I stood in jail for a decade and change. The Majestics started in the early 70s. Thats where the money was. Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. We were always there. One guys father was a hunter, and he went on vacation. --rocketrye12 talk/contribs 03:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I moved it to Bronx gangs (mid-twentieth century), please mind your capitalization. So they kept the neighborhood. Wrong place, wrong time. Astoria. They were a big crewwhite gang, mostly Italian. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. The ones that didnt go in are the ones that died along the way. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. I wound up doing like 13 years and change in jail. Houston Street down to Canal, and Bowery over to Lafayette. They help people out. Thats how the whole biker thing came about first. The last thing we wanted was heat on the block. There was a lot of acrimony between the Red Wings and Puerto Rican gangs from East Harlem like the Dragons and Viceroys. 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. Chapter leaders, members, and advisors will be part of the Active Minds Chapter Network upon activation and will . If it aint from close range, you just have to wait for the pellets to come out later. 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. We gotta watch our back. Youd bring a girl with you so she could hold the gun. We didnt have rules or initiations. Theres still a lot of people around. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. In fact, sometimes the girls would rumble with other clubs without the guys knowing. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. What was so funny was that a lot of the people were intermingled, family-wise. The balcony on 204th and the 'tunnels', and the whole area surrounding Twin Lakes was our turf! We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. hairstyle later made famous by Fonzie from Happy Days. It was something for show. But when wed fight the Spanish guys, theyd stand there. Back then, if a car sat for a day, wed strip it. 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. One time, something had happened so I went looking for this guy to get him. 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. I remember my first encounter with a drive-by. They said, Why should I buy drugs to sell when I can steal his and sell them? It happened all the time. Their rivals were the Harlem Dragons, who killed one of their own in 1955.The Demons who they had vicious rumbles with. I was with him for 24 years, so I was a real part of it. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. In fact, we protected people. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. It was a gangster neighborhood. I went over to the South 9th Bikers in early 1980, the same year I went to jail. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. Wed drink winewere talking now maybe one oclock in the afternoon. We made sure nobody messed with 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? That was East New York. Thats when we started realizing that we had lost the numbers. Some of the cops knew us too. There were real gangsters around too. One group gathered at PS 171 at 30th Ave and 14th Street, the other The guys and I would go and take it and strip the parts off and hed get his insurance. at the Astoria Houses at 27th Ave. Patrol cars screamed into both I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. Nobody would fuck with us. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. That was when the neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Italian. Then you were on file. Our drug of choice then was heroin. 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. If anyone stepped in, (stepped out of turn) he was accounted for verbally and brutally. I was first in a gang when I lived in East Harlem. Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. And nobody could fuck with that. Because we were like brothers. I used to walk around with a gun every day. You usually carried a knife, something to protect you. There would be 20 or 25 of them and 20 or 25 of us. But it made a big noise and a flash of light. 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. And I think using full years instead of century description is better. Take on the world. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. Ducking from shootouts and things like that. They were knife-happy. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. Ballistics work being done on Piggys Candy Store. 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. I lived down the block from an armory, and there was a sergeant who would come every morning and buy seven bags of dope. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. 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). 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. And then he died. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. 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. Once again, I wanted to go out with someone who was in that gang. It happened on a fateful late spring day in 1954. For everybodyespecially our people but even for strangers, what we called Merigans, like Ameriganswe had respect for all of them. The Spanish guys were different. You won. Wake him up, hustle. I got into the gangs very, very early. 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. Wed hang out in the park at night. On that day the Baldies happened to be in Section 11 and when someone asked for help, they proceeded to Section 17 to inform the Red Wings that this was their area. The problem with the Bronx in 1978 was there were real gangs. Not every club was friendly. Unless you also plan on making an article for the early 20th century, I'd suggest you leave of 'mid'. If I had to stick you, I would stick you. Here's the spotify link:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FJNuMjFZHeQKJXR0DlmzX?si=RjpC0Rx4SpWB7sXFlct-Qg\u0026utm_source=copy-link\u0026dl_branch=1\u0026nd=1 So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. 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. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. It started as a dance club, and as things happened in the clubarguments and fightsit became a gang. A lot of the guys would be with their girlfriends. You could find it in the grocery store if you wanted it bad enough. All of them met violent deaths. I dont want to glorify it, because for todays youth theres nothing to glorify in gangs, but back then it was what we did to survive. But as things started to change and people started with the drugs, making money off of it, a lot of violence erupted. Heroin was a big thing in the 60s. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. They had a lotta heart. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. In September 1979 or 80, there was a big fire. You could also take a chimney apartgrab a couple bricks and throw those. Me and another Unknown Biker were convicted for it. Little by little the white gang broke up. Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. We protected women. But down in Chinatown, you could buy a tin of cocaine snuff for 25 cents. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. By the time they got there, however, the Baldies had left for their regular hangout on Belmont Ave a candy store called Piggys, hanging out and lolling about on the stoop. After 1940, the Jewish population faded and their diaspora paved the way for the hispanics to settle there. Here is what Piggys Candy Store looks like today now it appears to be an Islamic school. If anything, wed protect them. In Williamsburg, where we were, it was the Majestics, the Dukes, the Unknown Bikers, South 9 Bikers, Spanish Kings, Devil Rebels, Dirty Ones, and a bunch more. We had a buyer for every piecenot even from garages. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). 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 . Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. You were whacked out of your face. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. We went to the same school and we were all young. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. His father was a building super. About ten months ago I received an email from the son of Mario Montuoro. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. If you had war with somebody, then you could walk around their block wearing your colors, trying to be funny. 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." 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. I lived on Fulton and Rockaway, which was home to another crew, the Fulton and Rockaway Boys. 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. The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. She used to be a dispatcher for a car service. And the drugs? I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. Colors are more respected than your whole family. At the end they looked like gladiators. You have every type of person in every club. When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. Only Chinese guys did opium. I had a very bad temper back then. We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has . 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. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. First, we need to find some places that we could link to this page, so it gets some visibility. We had everything sold by sunrise. 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. I think he got arrested. The Micheal Farmer killing was an incident that happened during the showing of West We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. Caleo took another bullet just about the left buttock, near his belt line. It could more than double in size at that point. Because if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you took an ass whupping. We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. When they started with the knives, we started with the zip guns. I'll always have the memories of those times. 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. I was too young to know much about them, except that everyone was afraid of them. It was like one big family. With that money Id buy wine and cigarettes. And a lot of these girls from these clubs, let me tell you, a lot of them could have been better fighters than Alis daughter. So we all hang out now, go to parties, things like that. In 1957, the Viceroys stabbed and killed an Enchanter. A lot of my buddies went in. And they wouldnt flip colors. It was a two-way thing. Now all girls think giving a blowjob is nothing. The official athletics website for the Fordham University Rams Im 50 now, and I havent been back. 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It could be that she had sex with one of the girls guys, it could be that she was just wanting to have sex with one of the girls guys, or she could have just been from another club. 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. The guys in the restaurants were cool with us, and in return, we took care of them. Often it was handled one on? 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. Side Story. It was just fighting all the time. After that I knew it was nothing serious, so I never bothered to go to the hospital. Homicide Dozen, The Hustlers, The Web, El Kavons, Cobras, and The Murder Junkies. Back in the early days, we used to have a habit of snatching their hats. Then another five would do another dance routine, and it became like a fucking dance-off. It was on 42nd between Eighth and Ninth in the back of a parking lot. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. I mean, I could have been arrested for date rape a million times. 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 never wore colors. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. It was a crazy neighborhood. I think I shot two or three times with my .25 before it jammed. I got convicted for a gang-related manslaughter. It looked like an epidemic had destroyed the place. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. Pichon, President of the original Latin Kings of Highbridge Park, '63, currently living in the West Coast. When the pill came, everything changed. There were six of them and two of us. 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. I was a heroin addict from the age of maybe 13 to 17, but not like a falling-down addict. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. Because of this gang fights between the two groups became the norm. 42nd Street was like Mecca, where all the gangs would hang out on Friday night. I lived in abandoned buildings with them. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. The Duckies got their name because the original guys hung out at the Duck pond in the Bronx Botanical Gardens and shot at the ducks with slingshots, therefore, they eventually called themselves "Duckies". If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. areas at 8 PM. We used to wrap the gun up with a lot of tape, because those things had a tendency to blow up in your hands. They said, Youre not supposed to be on our block. If they wandered to our side of the park, Bronx Park East or we into their side there was trouble. The Woodside Chiefs were a Pop Warner, multi-division, football team from 1955 thru 1965. Any gear you could put on, no matter how hot or cold it was, you went to 42nd and wore your colors proudly. They were like, "Who's the. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety. The Woodside Chiefs, teenage boys, were self funded. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. But like I said, yeah, the cops beat your ass. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bronx_gangs_(1950s1960s)&oldid=1101692437, This redirect does not require a rating on the project's, This page was last edited on 1 August 2022, at 09:49. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. Everybody knew who was who. But he tires of being a Baldie, and the nail in the coffin, is when all the good members in a drunken stupor, sign up for the US Navy. But thats the way they did it in those days. 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. In 1959, a member of the Dragons was killed in a fight with the Viceroys. The gangs started separating. It didnt begin as a crime thing. I could make up to $20. Everything was about turf. Then, in a way that only the Internet can make happen, I received an email from another nephew of Ernests who was actually able to find Ernests unborn son at the time (when Ernest was killed he was married with a boy and his wife was 7 months pregnant with another son on the way). 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. We hung around Aberdeen Park. We sold it right on the street. Plus, if you had a leather jacket on and I shot you, chances are the bullet wouldnt even go through the jacket. But they looked at us and they said, It was Alicat So it was Alicat. People hustled their money. Its even like that now. In the 60s, the Puerto Ricans and blacks were coming in like there was no tomorrow. 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. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. We had a lot of guys in the gangsometimes we had 40, sometimes we had 60, sometimes we had 100. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. Just passing through. We also used the 'whistle' as an all clear after the cops had given up chasing us around and it was safe to come back out. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. But it wasnt like they asked us to. Two friends of mine once had to fight at Coney Island because thats where the argument happened. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. From time to time, wed bump into them and theyd make fun of us like, Hey, we got your park. Did it help? There was one Irish kid, I think, and one black kid. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). Me and my brother are probably the only ones that dont have a bike. But that was once in a while, you know? My brothers were making money selling drugs but I didnt want to get into it. 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. No matter where you went, even the toughest gangsfuckin Puerto Ricans, blacks, whateverthey wouldnt fuck with us. 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. lol" Another former gang member from the Garrisons had this to say about the Duckies: "If you were planning to visit the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx you needed to concern yourself with the "Duck(ie)s." Legend has it, if you are visiting the Bronx Botanical Gardens and blast out a 'Duckie Whistle', Duckies will show up to greet you till this day! 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