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Fordham Baldies is on Facebook. We would let him go because he was with his girl. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. Unknown Bikers were just big in Williamsburg, South 9 Bikers the same. Fourth, sources.I will be doing some more research and adding much more information. But like I said, yeah, the cops beat your ass. Baldies wounded.Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War. that Farmer was a member of a rival gang called "The Jesters" (It's not known whether or not Farmer was a gang member thougheven to this day). The story is really about our group of friends, our football team and yes, a rival crowd on the other side of Bronx Park. In fact, all three people who were involved in the murder ended up dying within three years of it. That freaked me out. After the Kennedy assassination, somebody opened up the door and let the drugs in. He couldnt show up to collect his rent. A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. Even some of the names used are real. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. But as things started to change and people started with the drugs, making money off of it, a lot of violence erupted. All of them met violent deaths. When I last saw them, they were street fighters, members of the Fordham Baldies, a gang that made our Little Italy neighborhood unsafe for outsiders. My childrens fatherwe had five children togetherhe and I slept in abandoned cars and buildings, what we called clubhouses. Wed drink Night Train. We sold it right on the street. It was like one big family. Gang wars were very infrequent and when they did occur hardly ever was there any firearms used. The Micheal Farmer killing was an incident that happened during the showing of West It also made us brother clubs with the Redwings, who were in East Harlem. We didnt have rules or initiations. The book is 6x9 and has 370 pages! That means turn your jacket around or take it off. Their leader is Terror, a 6'6", 400-pound monster of a man. Sometimes people got hit by cars. In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety.. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. You get high. Now, everybody else has a bike. I never shot up. Coke was popular when it first came out, but heroin was the drug of choice because it was a better high. A lot of times, people would come back all beat up and bruised. 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. The bond between people who were in gangs was amazing. But that was once in a while, you know? We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. We had a gang that started in high school. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. And they wouldnt flip colors. A 25 year-old hanger- We were trying to imitate them. We were like, Nah, dont fuck with them. 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. First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. 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. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. That was the big thing. This guy Frankie Boy was my best friend because he was really tough and I wasnt. The parents always got along, and we always respected their parents and they respected our parents. I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. From the east side, are And of course, you dont let nobody take your colors. About a month later, when he got out of the hospital, they invaded us again. So a lot of guys ODd. Mostly it was breaking into factories in Brooklyn. When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. It could more than double in size at that point. That was when the neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Italian. Jun.1, 1954 - Several Members of the Red Wings' gang from East Harlem drove to Fordham Baldies turf in the Bronx and shoot dead Ernest Montuoro after being insulted in a fracas at Orchard Beach. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. I lost my virginity at like 14. The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. It was a two-way thing. It didnt begin as a crime thing. 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. Its like a family, or the police department, or the priesthood. "I was a member of that Ducky gang, did some streetsmart growing up with them. In football, the Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision. If you dont do it, youre not part of the crew. There was one place on South 9th where the landlordhe was a Hasidicsaw that as long as we were in the building, none of the tenants complained about the addicts burglarizing them or people shooting up in the hallways or on the roof or anything like that. However, in this case below, the violence was actually with another white gang called the Fordham Baldies. We had fun. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. People from the neighborhood never called the cops on us because we were never troublemakers. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. Why you crying? You know whyyou shot my brother. It was crazy. There was a guy called the Baron and a guy called Bob the Queer, and theyd get us whatever we wanted. Theres a lot of people walking around messed up to this day, and a lot of people dead. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. When I did get arrested, my little brothermay he rest in peacehe was involved. We hung around Aberdeen Park. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. 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. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. The son made it seem like it was a burglary, and we made off with all his weapons. Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. It was where I was going to end up, whether I wanted to or not. And then when youre like 13 or 14, you start to hang out a little bit and the older guys start to notice you and start to talk to you and before you knew it youd been groomed into what they were. The problem with that was, if you snatched one of their hats in the wrong neighborhood, youd have a hell of a chase. He got hit in the head with a two-by-four, and it numbed him. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. If I had to stick you, I would stick you. 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. It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has . 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. Inside, sipping a soda, was Ernest Montuoro. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. If somebody says, Oh, let me see your colors, turn around, its not something you do. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. It was just a lucky shot and it went right through this guys arm. Dusty Vision TV on Facebook and IG Hit the subscribe and notification (bell) button!BRONX GANGS Of The 1960s - FORDHAM BALDIES Wanderers Ducky Boys Lost Boys of The Bronx James HannonI dont not own the rights to any music in this videoDusty Vision TV Instagram: Dusty Vision TVFacebook: Dusty Vision TVIf you would like to be a guest on my program please email me at [email protected] or DM me on Instagram \"Dusty Vision TV\"Check out my other youtube channel \"Dusty Vision Radio\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQCpoV0wVvjtGQN5ijpjGKACheck out my music. There was a lot of acrimony between the Red Wings and Puerto Rican gangs from East Harlem like the Dragons and Viceroys. I was from one side of the Southside, and the Unknowns were from the other side. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. But when wed fight the Spanish guys, theyd stand there. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. Side Story. I had a very bad temper back then. 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. Chemistry Faculty. 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. Rumors often swept Bronx high schools in the 1950s and 1960s that "the Baldies were coming" to confront the student body, at the generally docile Bronx High School of Science and the more macho, all-male DeWitt Clinton High School. A couple times, wed take somebody down there and leave em, maybe tied up, and he had to get out by himself. Wed drink winewere talking now maybe one oclock in the afternoon. After that it was acidPurple Haze. At that time you could buy the Robitussin AC, with codeine. Then you tie the hammer up with rubber bands, pull it back, and let it go. Who the hell knows whats in your brain? It was the stomping grounds of both the real-life Fordham Baldies gang, immortalized by Richard Price in The Wanderers, as well as where then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed a. And I tell you, it was a great fuckin scam. 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. Back in those days, we always had a clubhouse. The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. This was our life. 42nd Street was like a neutral area, unless you ran into clubs from different boroughs. Everybody knew who we were. It was like a game. During the day wed just be hanging out, walking the streets of Brooklyn, meeting people, going to parties. On a warm Saturday night, wed all be up on the hill. 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. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. I would buy it from Italian guys over on Avenue D, but not guys that we actually knew. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. He was so fuckin mad he didnt pay attention, and the guy went around the corner and when Frankie came after him, he was waiting, and hit him with a two-by-fourwhamright across the head. "When they were shooting the recruiting scene with the Fordham Baldies," Price recalled, "the actors were hanging out on the intersection of the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road right by Alexander's Department Store and Loew's Paradise, this massive Moorish movie palace. 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. Theres still a lot of people around. 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. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. Back then you just hung out with the right people. At the same time, Henry remembers . Wed be going across the Williamsburg Bridge, shooting at them, them shooting at us. If youre in my club, I take you at face value. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. But there were girls where I had to kick their ass. Then you were on file. Id be there for a few hours. There would be 20 or 25 of them and 20 or 25 of us. I told him to open the garbage can, one of those big silver ones, and I went in there, and I told him to put everything on top of me and put the lid on. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. Such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and long disruptions. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. Want to go to the college that inspired <i>Animal House</i>? Its much harsher than coke. I never believed in that, so I never did it. There were no drugs then. We buried each others brothers too much. Your chances of going to jail were even worse. Some people were robbing other gangs for their drugs. Everybody knew who was who. That was it. Just passing through. He used to shake when he walked and shit like that. Every Friday and Saturday night I would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and Flushing Avenue. But it wasnt like they asked us to. 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. We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! 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. Most were dressed in the 'uniform 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. We could see them from the hill. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. Eventually, though, it got to where you were lucky to get within a block of each other. So Id go back to the club, feed myself, feed my man and whoever else was there. 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. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. The balcony on 204th and the 'tunnels', and the whole area surrounding Twin Lakes was our turf! Anybody who had a Boy after their nameJohnny Boy, Frankie Boythey were always in trouble, cause they were always trying to prove they were a man. 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. Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. It was because of who you were. But you can find where it was filmed on this list. Not every club was friendly. There was nothing you could do about it. I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. We all got along. It wasnt about, This is where were hanging out, anymore. Houston Street down to Canal, and Bowery over to Lafayette. It was a gangster neighborhood. We had a lot of guys in the gangsometimes we had 40, sometimes we had 60, sometimes we had 100. The Brooklyn clubs were OK, but the clubs from the Bronx and Queensthe Savage Skulls, the Nomadsthey could cause some problems. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. Bellagio99 20:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]. We had everything sold by sunrise. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. Me and a few other guys started making a lot of noise, you know, fighting all these other gangs. Fordham Baldies: As their name suggests, they are all bald, reportedly to prevent their hair from getting in their eyes during a fight. It was a sanctuary, this rectangle here. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. My brothers were making money selling drugs but I didnt want to get into it. Rivals: Allerton Avenue gang, Parkside gang, and the Wanderers gang. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. Even today, in 2012, the Fordham Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to. The Spanish guys were different. I went over to the South 9th Bikers in early 1980, the same year I went to jail. Before the pill, you mostly just had blowjobs. Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. I used to walk around with a gun every day. It would scare people. Chair (JMH 642) Bionanotechnology, Biochemistry, and Nanomedicine. 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. I got locked up with another friend of mine. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. It was just fighting all the time. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. That was our block, so we had to protect everybody from other people who would come in and mess up the block. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. And I tell you, that was a fuckin fight. The father ended up getting most of them back after people started getting arrested with them, because he came home and reported them stolen. 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. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! The Ducky was not predominantly irish or anything else, but yes, we were certainly a 'large' group. When this second son was born, Ernests widow moved to California leaving everyone and everything behind. They said, Youre not supposed to be on our block. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. Sweater by United Bamboo, jeans by Levis. But thats the way they did it in those days. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. It was a mixed group, Italians, Blacks and Irish boys who had grown up together. I got arrested October 1980, came home December 1993. Me and him got along because there was no competition and we really loved each other. We made sure nobody messed with them. We never really had any problem with the Hasidics. I saw him on the corner at South 10th and Bedford, and I started shooting. Right now, the Majestics is a motorcycle club. Because we were like brothers. But down in Chinatown, you could buy a tin of cocaine snuff for 25 cents. Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. You came, you hung out, you drank a bottle of wine, you went crazy like everybody else. Back then, if a car sat for a day, wed strip it. I was first in a gang when I lived in East Harlem. Second, I want to expand the introduction. On weekdays, there was always some 'ducky members' to be found playing hooky." 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. Over the course of one or two summers, they outnumbered us. Then of course the cops picked up on it, and it got to be really tough. From time to time, wed bump into them and theyd make fun of us like, Hey, we got your park. 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. Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. Somebody else could come and rob your mother and you wouldnt like it. 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. Joey DiMassi is leader of the Fordham Baldies, respected for his fairness and decency. I've watched the movie The Wanderers each time it's been on, and still get a kick out of how the Ducky gang was supposed to be represented. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. This guy was always strapped. Some of the cops knew us too. Robert Beer, Ph.D. (JMH 634) Thats how the whole biker thing came about first. Their members use racial epithets to describe their rivals. You push a guy up against a wall with a car, just push him till he hits the wall. One group gathered at PS 171 at 30th Ave and 14th Street, the other These were all pretty much in the same area and were all converted store fronts with bars. formed. Caleo took another bullet just about the left buttock, near his belt line. 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. The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. Before that, date rape was the usual. Wasnt too much of a fight. We had colorsblue sweaters. But I never did. Take on the world. 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 got locked up in 80 and came out in 83. You usually carried a knife, something to protect you. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. So after a while, he would make an apartment available to us. They thought I had control over their leader. Thats where the money was. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams You showed up at the park at seven and we walked down Bushwick Avenue and wed do what we had to do. 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. 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. We went to Seward Park High School, and it was mostly Jews. Belmont Avenue, near East 189th Street. Eventually, if you hung out in that neighborhood you tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into town. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. Not many fights broke out there. The University also supports a number of club sports, and a significant intramural . The only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. 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