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Daybreak Boys (1840s-1859) Dead Rabbits (1830s-1860s) Dutch Mob (1870s-1880s) East Harlem Purple Gang (1970s-1980s) Eastman Gang (1890s-1910s) Five Points Gang (1890s-1920s) Flying Dragons (1967-1994) Forty Thieves (1825-1860s) - Considered the first known street gang in New York City. Gas House Gang (1880s-1910)
The Crenshaw Mafia Gangster Bloods had started out as a Black gang near 104th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles. They'd shown up in Denver in the mid-Eighties, and their power had been growing ever since. ^ "Gang member sentenced to 30 years in prison after shell casings tied to 2 murders". 9 News.
Paul Kelly, founder of the Five Points Gang. A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch. The area of Manhattan where four streets – Anthony (now Worth), Cross (now Mosco), Orange (now Baxter), and Little Water (now nonexistent) – converged was known as the "Five Points". [2] Mulberry, notorious for slum tenements, was one street ...
0–9. 14K (triad) 18th Street gang. 80 Blocks from Tiffany's. 116th Street Crew.
A 24-hour brothel raided by the NYPD last week may have ties to the gang, sources said.. Long list of victims. One current crime spree has seen nearly two dozen heists pulled off by migrants ...
Westies. The Westies were a New York City -based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing. They were partnered with the Italian-American Mafia and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s, and the 1950s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the mafia and organized crime as a whole. [ 23 ]
The Eastman Gang was a predominately Jewish-American street gang that dominated parts of the underworld in New York City during the late 1890s until the early 1910s. Along with the increasingly Italian-American and Italian immigrant Five Points Gang under Italian-American Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, best known by his pseudonym Paul Kelly, the Eastman gang succeeded the long dominant Whyos as the ...