Everyone pleaded not-guilty and a trial proceeded the following year in April 1955. Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were charged with 2nd Degree Murder and the others with 1st Degree Manslaughter. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. *Click on Fullscreen to see the full trial minutes*. What they had at that time was called the Youth Squad. The Fordham Rams are members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for most sports. 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. It was a gangster neighborhood. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. If they caught you, you were going to get an ass whuppin. DiVincenzos elbow took another bullet, which passed through his arm. We also used the 'whistle' as an all clear after the cops had given up chasing us around and it was safe to come back out. Because we were like brothers. It made more money. You have it all. It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. I got locked up with another friend of mine. I got in, it was dark, and then when I put on the light all I saw was coffins, so I ran out. But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. So they kept the neighborhood. Everybody else ran. We were always there. There was one Irish kid, I think, and one black kid. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Film Details Also Known As Wanderers MPAA Rating R Genre Adaptation Comedy Drama Period Release Date 1979 Distribution Company KINO LORBER/ORION PICTURES Technical Specs Duration 1h 53m Sound Stereo Color Color (Technicolor) Theatrical Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1 There was a lot of acrimony between the Red Wings and Puerto Rican gangs from East Harlem like the Dragons and Viceroys. I mean, I know I never did it. They werent really that strong of a weapon. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. With a peculiar frequency, a click of the cable remote shows the Fordham Baldies hanging out at the corner of Fordham Road and Grand Concourse, the foot chase through 1963 central Bronx alleyways . I guess some guys, you know, went with them. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. That was it. Little Italy was strictly Italian. It feels bad. Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. Eventually, if you hung out in that neighborhood you tried pills or pot, or whatever other crap came into town. 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. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. There was always some guy who got beat up and they took the sweater and we had to go find out who took it and get it back. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. Also, we used to have a lot of gay guys come around and theyd get us a couple pills, some marijuana, and bullets for our zip guns. But it made a big noise and a flash of light. His laugh reflex got fucked-up. 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. I lived down the block from an armory, and there was a sergeant who would come every morning and buy seven bags of dope. The 2 external links that I supplied give a lot more detail and documentation, and I suggest that the next editor of this piece start there. It was like one big family. I also had to fight some of the guys in the club. They looked at both of us, and I was a little relieved because I said to myself, well, they really was there, so Im gonna walk. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. They knew it was my kid brother, but all the witnesses were saying it was me. I remember my first encounter with a drive-by. We went to the same school and we were all young. This was from a roof maybe four stories up. I got arrested October 1980, came home December 1993. No matter where you went, even the toughest gangsfuckin Puerto Ricans, blacks, whateverthey wouldnt fuck with us. When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. SM28, Mount Carmel Candy Store Home of the Best New York Egg Creams. Just passing through. I proposed some sections, but there is still lots of work to be done. At school, a high school teacher accidentally sparks a race riot between the Italian gang the Wanderers and the Black gang the Del-Bombers. Then of course the cops picked up on it, and it got to be really tough. Heroin was a big thing in the 60s. Their leader is Terror, a 6'6", 400-pound monster of a man. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. Mostly we drank wine. I never jumped anybody. Montuoro, who was 25, was not in the Baldies but did have a criminal record for assault and robbery in 1947 and possession of a firearm in 1949. On Tuesday, June 1, 1954 at around noon hour, six Red Wings arrived at Orchard Beach, the Bronx in a dark-coloured 41 Cadillac, driven by Frank Giampetruzzi who was AWOL from Camp Dix. When I was in Spanish Harlem, the guys in gangs wore silk jackets with their name on the front and the club name on the back. Problem-wise, you know, we had a few here and there. Any girl that wasnt a virgin, if you went out with her you couldnt let her get away, because there werent many around. Heroin was the drug of choice. I got my head split open with a piano leg one night too. That was the year when it started getting real serious. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. In fact, sometimes the girls would rumble with other clubs without the guys knowing. So we all hang out now, go to parties, things like that. After a while, I realized that theynot just them, other clubs toowere being paid by the landlords to burn the buildings for the insurance. And I tell you, that was a fuckin fight. These are the people that we grew up with. All the defendants were found guilty and the shooters Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were sent to prison for twenty years. He was out on the street. 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. Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. The 70s was real nice. Actually, I wish I could go back a couple years. If the cops wanted to see who was who, they just had to look there on Friday and Saturday night because everybody wore their patches, all dressed up down to their boots. This was 1960 through 1962. It was just fighting all the time. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. One time we were having a fight and we had a couple of guys up on a roof. I was already scared by being in jail. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. That was my opportunity. The book is 6x9 and has 370 pages! We rumbled with their guys, and that started a war between the clubs. All the gangs recognized and even esteemed one another showing respect. I stayed in there for what seemed like three hours, but it was probably 15 minutes. That was when the Bronx was burning. Bernard Caleo and Angelo DiVincenzo were seated on the stoop in front of the candy store, unaware of what was about to happen. Like if we were walking down the street and we saw one of the Spanish guys with his girlfriend, we wouldnt beat him up. Now all girls think giving a blowjob is nothing. Some people were robbing other gangs for their drugs. It happened on a fateful late spring day in 1954. This was our life. formed. Here is what Piggys Candy Store looks like today now it appears to be an Islamic school. When I did get arrested, my little brothermay he rest in peacehe was involved. In Williamsburg, where we were, it was the Majestics, the Dukes, the Unknown Bikers, South 9 Bikers, Spanish Kings, Devil Rebels, Dirty Ones, and a bunch more. who descended on Micheal Farmer in the city owned: Highbridge swimming pool, whom they perceived The ones that didnt go in are the ones that died along the way. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. Oh yeah, and if you went down on a girl then, you couldnt walk around the neighborhood afterward. Thats the way the neighborhood was. But I wasnt there, I just wound up getting accused of it. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. I was 12 or 13. What was so funny was that a lot of the people were intermingled, family-wise. We were trying to imitate them. But it isnt like we were setting out to take over the building. 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. They talked about it, shook hands, and then we were brother clubs. And a lot of these girls from these clubs, let me tell you, a lot of them could have been better fighters than Alis daughter. Overdosed, stuff like that. We spent a couple nights in jail. Thats how I used to get my money. Two friends of mine once had to fight at Coney Island because thats where the argument happened. You won. I think snuff is much worse than cocaine. Sometimes people got hit by cars. You know, if somebody needed to get high, you made sure they got high; if someone got locked up, you make sure when they got out, you threw a party. 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. If he was alone, he got his ass kicked. TRIKER1 (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply], I read the article twice and I still have no idea what most of it was talking about. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. Our "uniform" was teal bowling shirts with black velvet vertical stripes. The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. Their rivals were the Harlem Dragons, who killed one of their own in 1955.The Demons who they had vicious rumbles with. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price; its screenplay was written by Philip Kaufman and his wife Rose. Take on the world. So a lot of guys ODd. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. We had a clubhouse. Every time he came by the block there was a shootout, so everybody was always aware when he was passing by. To this day, we still hang out, and wed do anything for each other. When I stepped off the train, I saw all these abandoned buildings, and every night there were the sirens of the fire trucks, and people being displaced, crying, no place to go. It was like a game. They were on the highway, and the guy said something out the window to his girl, and they went back and forth, then finally pulled off the highway up by Bryant Park. Robert Beer, Ph.D. (JMH 634) In 1957, the Viceroys stabbed and killed an Enchanter. That was the big thing. We were never really into robbing people. We had like one pistol, and that was for everybody, because every now and then you had a confrontation that would require it. Go home. Every Friday and Saturday night I would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and Flushing Avenue. Everybody knew who was who. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. Youd be saying, I dont give a shit who you are, calling the club out. Looking to gather allies to their fight as the Del-Bombers have bigger numbers, The Wanderers get rejected (humiliatingly) by the Fordham Baldies and by the Chinese Wongs. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in If you had war with somebody, then you could walk around their block wearing your colors, trying to be funny. 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. With us in the building, there was security. My mentality wasnt, I have to join that gang. It was, I like the guy, the guy likes me. Before you knew it, I married the president of the gang. Then, in a way that only the Internet can make happen, I received an email from another nephew of Ernests who was actually able to find Ernests unborn son at the time (when Ernest was killed he was married with a boy and his wife was 7 months pregnant with another son on the way). It was two carloads of the fellas, just headed toward the block, coming from Greenpoint. There was a guy called the Baron and a guy called Bob the Queer, and theyd get us whatever we wanted. We quit school at 16, and we went up to the park, we drank wine, and we ran up and down the street beating each other up. Its even like that now. But thats the way they did it in those days. Or cite a source, of course. Only Chinese guys did opium. Wrong place, wrong time. The story is really about our group of friends, our football team and yes, a rival crowd on the other side of Bronx Park. So our style of dress and everything was like them. This was found to be a nice touch in the Wanderers movie, but in reality, the Fordham Baldies were named for the Bald Eagle and had the Duck's Ass or "D.A." hairstyle later made famous by Fonzie from Happy Days. From the sweaters we went to a shirt, and from the shirt we finally got to patches. 1954 Red Wings & Fordham Baldies The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. Then another five would do another dance routine, and it became like a fucking dance-off. 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. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. In September 1979 or 80, there was a big fire. Then they got out of the cars a second time and the guy ran away and Frankie ran after him. Someone from the car said, you called us punks. 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