Comments about 18 street gangs

There are 42 comments about "18 street gangs"

Humboldt1: I am happy to get rid of all the gangbangers. I have confronted drug dealers and will surely do it again. I do not want the kids on my street living around this......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

kls: My husband and I have lived in Humboldt Park for 4 years since moving to Chicago from Guatemala. I cannot think of a better compromise for us both. I love being near the shops......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Anna: Now that a team has won in Philadelphia (Souls) I guess the curse is broken! But I didn't see on the news that the El was set on fire or cars and buses were......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

just me : I like many of you grew up in the HP area. No I don't live there anymore because i had my children and chose not to raise them in that enviroment. Needless to say......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Mrs.L: For all of the people who are down on Hutch; how old are you?? For the people who think this town is such an awful place, you must be young. I am still in my......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Larry: My town used to be okay. . . but now it is swarming with illegal immigrants and criminal activity. The town next to us has even more illegal immigrants. For the most part it is......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 8 by Scott Sargent

jamal: I remember the Henry Horner projects very well. I never lived in any of them but lived one block away on Warren Blvd. near Damen. I remember as a little boy when they were......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Logan: I am a 38 year old man born and raised in bushwick. I have seen bushwick go through many changes. I can remember when the wiseguys used to spend their days in the coffee shops......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

D.Bennet-lived in 1943 apt 606: I grew up in the Henry Horner Holmes a.k.a. the Hornets i live in 1943 4 trey i also grew up with pharoah and laffy and that movie portrayed them as innocent fun loving children......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

bill w: i was rasied there also i use to box in harrowgate gym alot has changed,i do return to feed the the drug addicts and the prostitutes and offer a better way i am now a......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

tito: Brooklyn bushwick is gangster look back in the 80's and 90' when john gotti was running it . Now theres a new breed of gangster !!! The only thing that has change is the pack of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

RickC: I wish we would stop refering to Bushwick as the Ghetto. It is a community in transition. I was there when it was great and celebrities such as Jackie Gleason lived on Chauncey Street. Will......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

anon (static-host-66-18-45-122.epbinternet.com): Another perspective. I'm 50 years old. Born in St. Anthony's, lived on Fairfield and Richmond Streets, attended Moos School. Gangs are nothing new. Puerto Ricans began moving into the neighborhood in......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: i remember masim's on chambers street, as a matter of fact from cedar street at washington to church street to chambers was litterally an electronics street fair, every store had radio components laid out on......

in response to: Maxim Radio, et Al by GGP

teachnyc: I work in bushwick's schools and I can't tell you how many times I hear my counterparts from our sister districts in queens talk about how bad it is in BW (they never want to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: iman you sound like a smart kid, in the 50's in brooklyn there were little street gangs on every other corner. a gang then were just a group, a clan, kids from down the......

in response to: But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang by jack

jack: once upon a time, an aging man, was left home, alone, his wife had gone off to work, his children all at their places and with their families, and this old man, well older gentleman,......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

jack: many of the buildings constructed in the late 1800's that was used as housing by poor hispanics, blacks, jews, polish, german, italians and irish are still standing today and in livable conditions and very expensive.......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

Antoine Whitfield: Yo, I was born & raised in bushwick (Wilson ave btwn. cooper & moffat st). Growing up in bushwick btwn yr. 71'& 88' I was fortunate to see the neighborhood go through transition.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Derek Jackson: Wow! Reading all this misspelled babble about being proud of being hispanic, about fighting the whites trying to take what's yours, and about complaining about gang violence is making me half-laugh, half-get pissed off. Homboldt Park......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Bean: I see Drunken fights in Bergen (Norways second largest city) every Friday and Saturday/Sunday, But the situation is different here, Oslo got these immigrant gangs that chase eachother all the time making trouble. About the......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

joseph: i was born in the 60s in b'wick and i still live in the area.i seen it all from the imergence of graffiti to the constant fightings from all the gangs that imerged in the......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Mat: I'm form repentigny, and yeah it can be a great place if you stay in the west side of the town. The east side is more like a big wal mart than a town: Artificial,......

in response to: Historic Laser Spa by EvilGentleman

WindyCity4life: I would ay Cabrini would be considered still dangerous.Last time i was their,their was a bunch of Gangster diciples walking around outside of the remaining high rises on west division street.My dad used to have......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

EvilGentleman: I remember making my way past street gangs at 4 in the morning to go eat a quarter pounder here. That was way back in 1985, when I was 16. My grandmother never knew I......

in response to: Times Square, McDonalds by vz

Mitch Waxman: Marine Park is really nice, coney island a 20-30 minute drive away (belt pkwy is alway traffic plagued, so learn the local street way to go). Standard NYC logic applies- trust your instincts & if......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

Experienced: Rest assured, you noticed a group/gang trying to locate the buyers for their drugs. Stop by and check out the corner of Maplewood and LeMoyne around 3:00pm. You'll see a series of thugs......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Lucky: I was recently in Chicago with my 17 year old daughter so she could visit a few colleges there. I had never been to Chicago nor had I ever heard of Cabrini Green. We stayed......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

LOL : Chicago Gang Watch Journal: “Ready to fuck” Humboldt park: Hernando “King Cock” Martinez, leader of the Almighty Crazy Gay Latin Kings (ACGLK’s) has split from the gang. Rumor has it that he was kidnapped by......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Alfonso aka Smiley: im frm queens, new york city n now i stay in a-town by da chi all i gotz ta say iz dat no matta where uz go thurr always gunna b gang shit......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

908: am a white female from the suburbs south of Chicago. I am English, Swedish, German, Polish Russian, English, and Scottish. Driving through Humboldt Park .....It's beautiful. There are beautiful homes and parks, but the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Unknown: I am a white female from the suburbs south of Chicago. I am English, Swedish, German, Polish Russian, English, and Scottish. Driving through Humboldt Park .....It's beautiful. There are beautiful homes and parks, but......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: catherine, please pull over or find a parking spot to take photos. i know on the fdr you cant pull over so get off and circle around. take a few minutes more to......

in response to: Brooklyn Bridge and the (defunct) Fulton Fish Market by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

jack: peter, you awaken many memories when you mention coney and stillwell. i grew up in 50's gravesend. my family moved from bay 13th and bath to gravesend. i walked many times from......

in response to: Brooding and Almost Disappearing, in Color by joey

Lola: I live in coney island and u cant imagine wat people have to do to survive we have to have our homies to stand by side and always have eachothers backs I really like coney......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

Confused to Nikki: Nikki - be worried, but also understand that the majority of folks in the neighborhood would wish this gang stuff would go away. Be worried but be smart, do not go out past 11. Get......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

cafeconleche: To: YOur own worst...and Seekinga future... and everyone else out there... It's nice to see that there are some of us on the same page--I don't know if you'd call it hate,--we'll then again, yeah--there is a......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

J : I know yall heard about Kevin he was trying to change hes life and the cops killed him this is prof that these cops aint no different they also plant drugs on people (Gangstas)......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

J: I was born and raised in Humbolt Park people need to stop complaining about the Gangs cause the cops (pigs) are as fucked up as we are if not worst and all my peeps repin......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

CynLaLinda: Soy Puertoriquena y Houndurena,I lived in humbolt park on and off all my life and even though things are bad i still miss it ive seen alot of shit and learned alot of shit from......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

that folk nigga jus shot that slo6b: folks are a family, not some "gang" we are an orginazation. one that utilizes growth and development, education, politics, social development, and education just to name a few. as we stand upon our 6 point......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

David: I've already told you that it is irrelivent what the labour government think about here because the United Kingdom as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is set in stone and things can never be......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie