Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. 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. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. 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. I got locked up in 80 and came out in 83. So they kept the neighborhood. Chapter leaders, members, and advisors will be part of the Active Minds Chapter Network upon activation and will . Thats how I used to get my money. Want to go to the college that inspired <i>Animal House</i>? I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. So our style of dress and everything was like them. Ernests son is now 58 years old and just now found out about his familys history in New York City. We had a buyer for every piecenot even from garages. Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. Back in those days, we always had a clubhouse. Everybody fights to kill. People hustled their money. You stick a car antenna in it and file down the part that you cock backthe hammer. Me and a few other guys started making a lot of noise, you know, fighting all these other gangs. That means turn your jacket around or take it off. We just got along. Ducking from shootouts and things like that. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. In them days, it was no big thing. Theres a lot of people walking around messed up to this day, and a lot of people dead. Then you had all these other little clubs in between. A lot of the guys would be with their girlfriends. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. 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. The Micheal Farmer killing was an incident that happened during the showing of West So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. The year is 1963 but their experiences are universal: falling in love, surviving in school and defending their turf against rivals like the Fordham Baldies, the Del Bombers and the Ducky Boys. Im 46 now and Im still with this thing. The Spanish guys were different. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. There were some crazy kids, though. I left it, but recommend changing that line. 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 . We buried each others brothers too much. 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. I didnt take no shit from nobody. 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. Prostitution was everywhere too. Somebody else could come and rob your mother and you wouldnt like it. But down in Chinatown, you could buy a tin of cocaine snuff for 25 cents. I never wore colors. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. 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. All of us went to school together. The landlord wasnt going to come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. A couple times, wed take somebody down there and leave em, maybe tied up, and he had to get out by himself. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. There were no drugs then. I think I was under that car for half an hour, until I heard my guys yelling my name. After I received this email, I received yet another email, this time from Ernests niece who has some stories to share about Ernest that her father shared with her. It made more money. I got my head split open with a piano leg one night too. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. They thought I had control over their leader. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. Theres still a lot of people around. I never robbed anybody. A lot of my buddies went in. 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. The ones that didnt go in are the ones that died along the way. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the He got killed a few years later. We were coming down Freeman Street to the club, and they started calling us out. 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 . We gotta watch our back. Youd bring a girl with you so she could hold the gun. I buried three of my brothers because of being in gangs and being involved in drugs and living in the ghetto. You have it all. Over the course of one or two summers, they outnumbered us. Our turf was Lee Avenue and Lynch Street. Naturally, there were a lot of shot-up people. That was East New York. Take on the world. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. On a warm Saturday night, wed all be up on the hill. The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It could more than double in size at that point. I got into the gangs very, very early. I was a heroin addict from the age of maybe 13 to 17, but not like a falling-down addict. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. What was so funny was that a lot of the people were intermingled, family-wise. Before we started getting high on dope, we were sniffing glue. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. Bellagio99 20:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]. From the east side, are The last thing we wanted was heat on the block. He died in a tragic fuckin condition. 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,. Their leader is Terror, a 6'6", 400-pound monster of a man. It was the fact that they were so cool with us. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. 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. We used to make choppers with four- and six-polesextensions, you know? He suffers from asthma. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. It was on 42nd between Eighth and Ninth in the back of a parking lot. They banded together too, and thats the way it went. Every Friday and Saturday night I would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and Flushing Avenue. We went to Seward Park High School, and it was mostly Jews. We were always armed. From the Jewish girls mostly, not from Catholic girlsnot when I was a kid. But I never did. From Spanish Harlem, we moved to the South Bronx. Who the hell knows whats in your brain? Convicted Red Wings were Frank Ciappetta, Vincent Gugliemelli, Philip Bonanno, Jerry Santaniello and Frank Giampetruzzi. 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. DiVincenzos elbow took another bullet, which passed through his arm. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. When I was in Spanish Harlem, the guys in gangs wore silk jackets with their name on the front and the club name on the back. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. He lived like that for a long time. You were whacked out of your face. 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 was like 50 cents a bottle. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? They werent allowed to date outside girls. We were so fuckin broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. 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? I used to walk around with a gun every day. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. Heroin was the drug of choice. When you left your house you had to worry about somebody grabbing you and kicking your ass. 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 . People started making money on their own and they forgot about their buddies. We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. 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. When the pill came, everything changed. So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. At its centre is Italian-American kid Richie (Ken Wahl) who is one of. Theyd hang around. One of our guys got stabbed 20 times by the Flaming Satans. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. 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. You won. Not every club was friendly. 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. Thats when we were first coming up. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. Basically, the Dirty Ones was the only gang that was friendly with us. In fact, you dont turn around for anybody either. 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). 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. 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. Yeah, it was nice. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. Before that, date rape was the usual. A lot of guys got hurt, and a couple a guys got hurt really bad. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. 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. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. 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. A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. We had a riot on Fulton Street one time, and thats what we did. I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. We went to the same school and we were all young. If he was alone, he got his ass kicked. I left my mothers house when I was 14. Not in my memory! 90K views 13 years ago Gang turf of the Corona Dukes, Arthur Avenue Boys, and the Fordham Baldies. 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 carried guns for them if we had to go to a rumble or something because at the time the police wouldnt check the girls. 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. When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. 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. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. They were all afraid of us. That was a typical day. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. Everybody knew who was who. It didnt begin as a crime thing. Italians were Italians in those days. 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. Unknown Bikers were just big in Williamsburg, South 9 Bikers the same. 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 . Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were charged with 2nd Degree Murder and the others with 1st Degree Manslaughter. I dont have any emotions anymore. They were with them most of the day. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. I got arrested October 1980, came home December 1993. Gang wars were very infrequent and when they did occur hardly ever was there any firearms used. 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. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. Everything was about turf. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Go home. The year given is the year of the film's release or first season of the series. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. On any given weekend night, as you reached the 'balcony', you started the Ducky 'whistle'. I never jumped anybody. But thats the way they did it in those days. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. They had me in the bullpen with him when the witnesses came. That was when the neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Italian. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. It was just fighting all the time. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. We went down one night, had a fight with them, and Ill never forget it: We chased them all the way down Evergreen Avenue, and all of a sudden about 60 or 70 of them came out of a house. After a while, if he called the police, then we would be angry at him. I went over to the South 9th Bikers in early 1980, the same year I went to jail. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on Their members use racial epithets to describe their rivals. They. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. Or you find them in a car, dead. We used to wrap the gun up with a lot of tape, because those things had a tendency to blow up in your hands. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. You could also take a chimney apartgrab a couple bricks and throw those. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? You could see how things escalated. 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. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. His father was a building super. Lot of guys went to jail. Little Italy was strictly Italian. This event took place in Washington Heights, There would be 20 or 25 of them and 20 or 25 of us. By the time Henry and Stephanie reached junior high school, gangs were becoming an issue, particularly the Fordham Baldies. If anyone stepped in, (stepped out of turn) he was accounted for verbally and brutally. Baldies didn't shave their heads and in reality wore Ducks Ass hairdoos like The Fonz and were named after bald eagles? It was a gangster neighborhood. Only Chinese guys did opium. They were on the highway, and the guy said something out the window to his girl, and they went back and forth, then finally pulled off the highway up by Bryant Park. Sometimes. But as things started to change and people started with the drugs, making money off of it, a lot of violence erupted. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. I never shot up. Thats the bottom line. These are the people that we grew up with. For everybodyespecially our people but even for strangers, what we called Merigans, like Ameriganswe had respect for all of them. The '50s and '60's were a time when loyalty actually meant esteem, consequence, and prestige. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. We had no real guns, just the ones that we made, which were a joke. I remember them strutting their stuff on the boardwalk dressed in black bikini bathing suits with red piping. They were like, "Who's the. The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. Now all girls think giving a blowjob is nothing. I mean, I could have been arrested for date rape a million times. If you want to see somebodys colors, you walk around the back and look at them. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. Interestingly, this second nephew of Ernests that emailed me works just a few miles from where Ernest was shot and killed. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. Any girl that wasnt a virgin, if you went out with her you couldnt let her get away, because there werent many around. So Id go back to the club, feed myself, feed my man and whoever else was there. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. down on them. True, that could be any college. That was right before the Kennedy assassination. Back then you just hung out with the right people. We protected women. I guess some guys, you know, went with them. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. You know, you pull it out or you just display it, and people say, OK, were not gonna mess around. Most of the time when you would shoot, you did it not to hurt somebody, but to scare them. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available! 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. From the sweaters we went to a shirt, and from the shirt we finally got to patches. That was a typical night. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. Thats the way the neighborhood was. Who was I supposed to hang out with? We never went crazy in our neighborhood, and whoever did, they would hear about it from us the next day. 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. If two women came into a bar, they never paid for a drink and nobody even went over to talk to them. The gangs started separating. Once again, I wanted to go out with someone who was in that gang. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. Here's the spotify link:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FJNuMjFZHeQKJXR0DlmzX?si=RjpC0Rx4SpWB7sXFlct-Qg\u0026utm_source=copy-link\u0026dl_branch=1\u0026nd=1 Some people were robbing other gangs for their drugs. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. The two toughest guys would fight it out, and that was how it worked. Third, some more trivia. I was from one side of the Southside, and the Unknowns were from the other side. Me and another Unknown Biker were convicted for it. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. They were a big crewwhite gang, mostly Italian. 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. Eventually everybody said, Were not going to dance no more. When he died, my brother Carlos took over. Me and him got along because there was no competition and we really loved each other. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. 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. The guys in the restaurants were cool with us, and in return, we took care of them. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. The battle lines between opposing armies had already It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. I lost my virginity at like 14. To this day, we still hang out, and wed do anything for each other. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. 42nd Street was like a neutral area, unless you ran into clubs from different boroughs. If it aint from close range, you just have to wait for the pellets to come out later. If they caught you, you were going to get an ass whuppin. Nobody ever bothered to call the cops, because everybody wanted to just take care of him. We made sure nobody messed with them. The 70s was real nice. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. And I tell you, it was a great fuckin scam. 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. Fordham Baldies is on Facebook. So every day somebody else would wear the jackets at school. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. This was on Fulton and Rockaway, a half block from my house. 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. The Fordham Rams are members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for most sports. She used to be a dispatcher for a car service. First, we need to find some places that we could link to this page, so it gets some visibility. Eventually, though, it got to where you were lucky to get within a block of each other. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. They were called the Flaming Satans. There were also after school programs Stephanie went to that had a lot of activities for the kids. In fact, all three people who were involved in the murder ended up dying within three years of it. 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. Like 12 or 13. Violence back then, if you put it on a scale, Id say it was about a seven. Like if we were walking down the street and we saw one of the Spanish guys with his girlfriend, we wouldnt beat him up. A car can sit on the street two or three days today. It was all music and sex and everybody getting high. Joey DiMassi is leader of the Fordham Baldies, respected for his fairness and decency. Baldies wounded.Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War. 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." You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. But back then, if you had a girlfriend, if you were getting laid, you were the king of the mountain. NYC. After that I knew it was nothing serious, so I never bothered to go to the hospital. 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. That was it. Everybody kept their eyes open. That was all tongue in cheek. But I wasnt there, I just wound up getting accused of it. Robert Beer, Ph.D. (JMH 634) Our drug of choice then was heroin. 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