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South Brooklyn Boys (abbreviated as SBB) was a famous New York City street gang. In the 1950s, various Italian-American gangs were formed in South Brooklyn , New York City , and came together under the moniker of "South Brooklyn Boys" sometime around the 1950s.
Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on October 31, 1905, to Margaret Moultrie and William Johnson.When he was 10, his older brother Willie was accused of killing a white man.
Casso was a violent youth, and a member of the infamous South Brooklyn Boys street gang. [10] In 1958, he was arrested after a "rumble" against a rival Irish American gang. Casso later told Carlo that his father Michael visited him at the police station and tried in vain to scare his son straight.
Rochester crime family; Founded: c. 1950s Founders: Buffalo crime family: Founding location: Rochester, New York, United States: Years active: c. 1950s–1993 [1] Territory: Primarily the Rochester metropolitan area, with additional territory throughout Western New York
The Tanglewood Boys was an Italian-American recruitment gang or "farm team" for the American Mafia, specifically the Lucchese crime family. [1] The gang frequently operated from the Tanglewood Shopping Center in Yonkers, New York .
For so long Red Hook was one of Brooklyn’s most stigmatized neighborhoods, dominated by crime and extreme violence. In the early twentieth century, for instance, Red Hook’s docks were ...
Boriello grew up in South Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by mobsters from the Gambino, Genovese, and Colombo crime families. His younger brother Stevie was a close friend of neighborhood gangsters Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Albert Gallo and Frank Illiano, and after Joey's murder, Stevie was instrumental in securing the crew's South Brooklyn rackets.
They're called the Wolfpack, the six Angulo brothers whose father locked them in a New York City apartment for 14 years. After becoming the subject of an award-winning documentary, they're finally ...