He was out on the street. They made us have a big meeting in Junior High School 73. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams Wed eat, drink wine, hang out, bullshit, discuss what we were going to do that day, whether we were going to go visit another club or if there was going to be some kind of party. That was the end of him. He used to shake when he walked and shit like that. We made sure nobody messed with them. From time to time, wed bump into them and theyd make fun of us like, Hey, we got your park. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. We started saying, Why dont we make patches? And finally we did. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. I wasnt hit too often. It also made us brother clubs with the Redwings, who were in East Harlem. After that I knew it was nothing serious, so I never bothered to go to the hospital. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. 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. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. The Dukes were on Roebling and South 3rd, over to South 1st. They had a lotta heart. About a month later, when he got out of the hospital, they invaded us again. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. 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 got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. In 1959, a member of the Dragons was killed in a fight with the Viceroys. What do you think?--rocketrye12 talk/contribs 04:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], Sorry, didn't see this discussion - I changed the name to Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s) because that is specifically what is being discussed. 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. So there wasnt one particular reason. What they had at that time was called the Youth Squad. 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. Everything was about turf. By the way, there were always fights yet it was all handled with reverence, one on one. He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. It wasnt too hard to see the handwriting on the wall. We never went crazy in our neighborhood, and whoever did, they would hear about it from us the next day. 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. They were a very big club. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. I never robbed anybody. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. If anything happened to one of us, we had all of these guys. We had everything sold by sunrise. They were with them most of the day. Wasnt too much of a fight. Like 12 or 13. I stayed in there for what seemed like three hours, but it was probably 15 minutes. And I think using full years instead of century description is better. Big car, big wallet, and next thing you know theyre doing fifty years in jail. Ernests son is now 58 years old and just now found out about his familys history in New York City. But that didnt last too long once they got used to it. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. Sometimes wed say, Come on up. We had nobody left, so we said, Whats the use in fighting? We got to the point where we got older, we had girlfriends, we started getting cars, and we left the neighborhood. Thats when we were first coming up. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. We went for the cheap wine. on/associate of the Baldies was killed--shot to the head, and two The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. 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. The battle lines between opposing armies had already 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. The parents always got along, and we always respected their parents and they respected our parents. Actually, I wish I could go back a couple years. Girls drank free. Before the pill, you mostly just had blowjobs. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. His laugh reflex got fucked-up. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. Fordham Baldies is on Facebook. My brothers were making money selling drugs but I didnt want to get into it. 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. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. Our "uniform" was teal bowling shirts with black velvet vertical stripes. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. 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. 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. After that it was acidPurple Haze. This was on Fulton and Rockaway, a half block from my house. 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 . It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. Robert Beer, Ph.D. (JMH 634) He didnt see where I was shooting from, so I ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one. I carried a .25, then later a 9 mm. Join Facebook to connect with Fordham Baldies and others you may know. No matter where you went, even the toughest gangsfuckin Puerto Ricans, blacks, whateverthey wouldnt fuck with us. Its cheaper than coke, and you get whacked on it. At that point, all everybody wanted to do was sell drugs. 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. Belmont Avenue, near East 189th Street. You come running through the building with the cops after you and you could run into any door. For each institution, films are listed by release date, starting with the most recent. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. 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. Its like a family, or the police department, or the priesthood. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. 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. Over the course of one or two summers, they outnumbered us. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. It wasnt about, This is where were hanging out, anymore. The ending was tragic and if one were keeping score on such a grim topic, the Red Wings came out on top. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. If anything, wed protect them. I also had to fight some of the guys in the club. *Click on Fullscreen to see the full trial minutes*. You have your murderers, your rapists, your thieves. John Gotti, too. We used to make choppers with four- and six-polesextensions, you know? It made his brain all fucked-up. The son made it seem like it was a burglary, and we made off with all his weapons. But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. I think I was under that car for half an hour, until I heard my guys yelling my name. 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. Joey DiMassi is leader of the Fordham Baldies, respected for his fairness and decency. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. Rivals: Allerton Avenue gang, Parkside gang, and the Wanderers gang. 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 mean, we liked to have a good old-fashioned fight and beat the hell outta each other, but we never had no intentions of, Lets go down there and kill a few of em. We all lived in the same neighborhoodthat was another reason why we werent out to kill each other. Prostitution was everywhere too. Only Chinese guys did opium. 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. Take on the world. Ill be honest with you, the Spanish guys had a little more guts than the black guys. It could more than double in size at that point. Then Id go into this one restaurant, talk to the guy I knew there, find out if there was any food from breakfast left99 percent of the time there wasand hed pack it up and give it to me. It went right through his forearm. It was a two-way thing. Mostly we drank wine. There were real gangsters around too. It was an abandoned building. Hell no. of the day,' black leather jackets dungarees and boots. We went to Seward Park High School, and it was mostly Jews. We were sitting on the corner of Longwood, drinking beer, and this particular club came by and started shooting. I got locked up with another friend of mine. We didnt shake nobody down or hurt nobody. FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? About Us Site Map Contact Us Great American Youth Book Lords Of Kilbourn Book, Greaser Magazine: "Rising Up Angry:" Stone Greaser Grapevine, Debbie Kozlarek/Carolyn Vandermolen Murders, The Teddy Girls Gang - Great Britain 1950s, Mighty Zulu Nation, Universal Zulu Nation Gang history, Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War, SBB Garfield Boys verses Red Hook Tigers article, Brass Knuckle Tales 50's Street Gang Looks Back, Jimmy the Gent Burke Rest in Peace Article, Harlem Red Wings/Northmen Street Gang article. A close knit group that consisted mainly of blacks and Puerto Ricans, All the defendants were found guilty and the shooters Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were sent to prison for twenty years. I'll always have the memories of those times. It was a sanctuary, this rectangle here. Overdosed, stuff like that. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. 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. Thats the way the neighborhood was. My kid brother ended up dying. We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. One guys father was a hunter, and he went on vacation. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. True, that could be any college. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. Not every club was friendly. The University also supports a number of club sports, and a significant intramural . . I ran up and down the fire escape, taking a lot of the tenants out. We never really had any problem with the Hasidics. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. 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 learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. The story is really about our group of friends, our football team and yes, a rival crowd on the other side of Bronx Park. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. Theyd hang around. 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. There were no drugs then. Later on we had a clubhouse where wed hang out all the time. 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. Eventually, though, it got to where you were lucky to get within a block of each other. That was a typical night. I saw him on the corner at South 10th and Bedford, and I started shooting. They werent really that strong of a weapon. A car can sit on the street two or three days today. So wed take the apartment over. We didnt even have to do anything. Forget about iteverywhere you went, every corner, the drugs were there. But thats the way they did it in those days. To make a zip gun you buy a cap gun. That was East New York. The Spanish guys were different. Or cite a source, of course. He died in a tragic fuckin condition. These are the people that we grew up with. It was where I was going to end up, whether I wanted to or not. I never shot up. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! This was our life. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. bayonets, brass knuckles, and garrison belts before officers swoop Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. 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! All of them met violent deaths. 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 . Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The Thats all I ever wanted to do. Meanwhile, a local gang, the Fordham Baldies, menacing blacks and Hispanics in Roosevelt's vicinity, kept enrollment overwhelmingly white. They help people out. 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. Side Story. I was like, What the hell is this? Then, slowly but surely, I started to gravitate towards them. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. He left behind a wife and child. I heard that he was like that because his mother was killed. It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. There were no real initiations. Me and a few other guys started making a lot of noise, you know, fighting all these other gangs. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in You have to flip your colors. They started getting nasty. 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. 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. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. Little by little the white gang broke up. His mind was OK, but hed be talking and hed start laughing cause he couldnt help it. The Viceroys were a Puerto Rican gang from 103rd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. 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". The Fordham Rams are members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for most sports. Teenage Gangs Kill One, Injure Six: one shot and killed, one stabbed, and four beaten in a gang fight That was it. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. If you dont do it, youre not part of the crew. The rest of them are scattered to the wind. Not many fights broke out there. who descended on Micheal Farmer in the city owned: Highbridge swimming pool, whom they perceived It was a crazy neighborhood. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. The official athletics website for the Fordham University Rams I was 12 or 13. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. Mario was Ernests brother but passed away a couple of days prior to his son emailing me in March 2012. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. When the pill came, everything changed. Egyptian Dragons". the Saracen Lords and the Nobles. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. down on them. It was all music and sex and everybody getting high. The Fordham Baldies were one of the gangs featured in the movie "The Wanderer". 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. This was from a roof maybe four stories up. One of our guys got stabbed 20 times by the Flaming Satans. One time, something had happened so I went looking for this guy to get him. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. They became my brothers and sisters. Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. The father ended up getting most of them back after people started getting arrested with them, because he came home and reported them stolen. It was two carloads of the fellas, just headed toward the block, coming from Greenpoint. It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. 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. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. You just couldnt believe it. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. These were all pretty much in the same area and were all converted store fronts with bars. Everybody kept their eyes open. Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). "I was a member of that Ducky gang, did some streetsmart growing up with them. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. They banded together too, and thats the way it went. If somebody says, Oh, let me see your colors, turn around, its not something you do. But it made a big noise and a flash of light. Wed be going across the Williamsburg Bridge, shooting at them, them shooting at us. We were always armed. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. One of us would move out of a place, and ten families would move in. From the Jewish girls mostly, not from Catholic girlsnot when I was a kid. You push a guy up against a wall with a car, just push him till he hits the wall. 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. We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. We were able to do that, whereas the newcomers werent. They were like, "Who's the. He got killed a few years later. I was satisfied with sniffing. 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. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. You could see how things escalated. That was the big thing. Theres a lot of people walking around messed up to this day, and a lot of people dead. I used to steal a lot from factories. Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. Back then you just hung out with the right people. Nobody ever bothered to call the cops, because everybody wanted to just take care of him. Then of course the cops picked up on it, and it got to be really tough. At the end they looked like gladiators. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. But back then, if you had a girlfriend, if you were getting laid, you were the king of the mountain. My brother Alex started wearing patches when he was hanging out with this other club, the Dirty Ones. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? This guys sister might be living with that guys brother, or you might have a kid with that guys sister. Everybody wants to make a name for themselves, a reputation. hairstyle later made famous by Fonzie from Happy Days. We hung around Aberdeen Park. Nobody would fuck with us. 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. Wrong place, wrong time. That was it. Our program is free and empowers youth to champion mental health advocacy and awareness with their peers. 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. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. Back in those days, we always had a clubhouse. They were knife-happy. Convicted Red Wings were Frank Ciappetta, Vincent Gugliemelli, Philip Bonanno, Jerry Santaniello and Frank Giampetruzzi. They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! On the west side of Astoria, members came from the (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on Astoria. Problem-wise, you know, we had a few here and there. The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. 1954 Red Wings & Fordham Baldies The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. Any gear you could put on, no matter how hot or cold it was, you went to 42nd and wore your colors proudly. Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. We had a building on the Southside that we painted up with Free Sonny Barger. He was the Hells Angels national president who was locked up at the time. They said, Why should I buy drugs to sell when I can steal his and sell them? It happened all the time. 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. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. They werent allowed to date outside girls. He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. Nobody fights to hurt anymore. When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. That happened a lot. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available! Ducking from shootouts and things like that. Caleo took another bullet just about the left buttock, near his belt line. So our style of dress and everything was like them. Their gang was the Comanchero Chaplains. Today, thats what the gangs call itthe Bloods, the Crips, all of them, they call it flagging: I die for my flag. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. I mean, these girls could fight. This is my hood. A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. There was nothing you could do about it. one fistfights and it would be over. When you got caught doing something, they handcuffed you, took you down to the precinct, beat the shit outta ya, then took the information down. 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. We gotta watch our back. Youd bring a girl with you so she could hold the gun. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. The Unknowns used to be from Union to Rodney, Metropolitan to like South 4th. The landlord wasnt going to come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass. 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Chemistry Faculty. We were never really into robbing people. That was when the Bronx was burning. Me and a couple friends of mine went to a hooker. 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 never jumped anybody. There was a lot of acrimony between the Red Wings and Puerto Rican gangs from East Harlem like the Dragons and Viceroys. 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. I was with him for 24 years, so I was a real part of it. The Woodside Chiefs were a Pop Warner, multi-division, football team from 1955 thru 1965. Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. The apartments were filled with rats and roaches, we had no heat or hot water half the time, pipes were falling down, ceilings were leaking. I left my mothers house when I was 14. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. Bucks, the Gents and the Garrisons gangs. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes.