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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.
The gangs in attendance that are most frequently mentioned include the Black Spades, Ghetto Brothers, Savage Skulls, Turbans, and Seven Immortals. This historic treaty among South Bronx gangs lasted until the crack cocaine wars erupted during the early 1980s. Some of the Gangs that attended the Hoe Avenue peace treaty meeting: Alley Cats; Bachelors
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) Ghost Shadows (1970s-1990s ...
More than a dozen south Brooklyn gangbangers were charged in a massive sweep for their alleged roles in 19 shootings that left nine people wounded and killed a rival gang member in Sheepshead Bay ...
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 ...
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 .
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.
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.