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Former gang members from throughout the city and country gathered at the Mitchell-Lama housing projects in the South Bronx to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Black Spades, New York’s ...
Come out to play-ay. The 1979 film “The Warriors” takes a look at the gangs of New York City — focusing on the victimized Coney Island crew. It may have been fiction, but the film… ...
With colorful names like the Ghetto Brothers, Savage Skulls, Black Spades, Grim Reapers and Royal Javelins, the highly organized, mostly Latino and black gangs nearly went to all-out war with each ...
Street gangs had existed in New York City since the 1800s, going all the way back to the Bowery Boys and Dead Rabbits portrayed in Martin Scorsese’s 2002 imperfect period piece Gangs Of New York ...
A once-violent street gang in the Bronx is using the Thanksgiving holiday to team up with a local church to feed those in need. Former members of the Black Spades gang teamed up with the United ...