Comments about gangs

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Richie Rubin: ALLAN,Yep,dem daze are gone..4-ever! & I had:both albums `Paragons meet the Jesters' &`Rumble'then Link Wray came out w/an instumental:`Rumble'all in mid`50's,sure there were`gangs'in our`hood[mostly in Albany & Kingsboro projects & many members went to P.S.167..I knew a few,but there......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

hobson: yeah in parts of essex county life is like that.. newark is getting calmer, and the smaller cities like e.o., and orange, and especially irvington are getting worse and worse. just clowns with no common......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

dena: I have lived in the Humboldt Park area all my 50 years and seen many changes for the better yet the gangs are a big problem still in our community and schools in the area......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

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

Allan: Richie, I lived in the same building as Judy Oshinsky. I have a few photos of us back around '55-58. She had 2(I think) brothers. On the corner of Schenectidy and Union was a dry cleaner......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Humboldt1: Arquitecto, Seriously, you don't need to use all the 5 dollar words. I have been in Humboldt Park for the past 3 years, having purchased an apartment building here in which I live. I......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Nina: La Junta is not a bad place to live. I lived in another small town next to it called Las Animas. And were not creepy hick people. There is no gangs not really......

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

awake: Alot people have been living with no direction and misdirection threw out there entire lives in the ghetto's,all over the world.The criminal mentality and immoral behaviors has not been wiped out off the face of......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

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

Anonimus: Werribee Stations is becoming a really dangerous place. Specailly at night time because lots of gang members meet up and start fights, hit random people. Werribee has become dangerous because of this gangs tha have......

in response to: Werribee Station by benji

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

bloody bullets: man moreless non of you 5-50's is emu moreless i bang dat NTG aka B.B.A aka 001006 9tr3y gangsta blood gang tamu damu emu suwooooo!~~~!!...

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

bigv: i live in bedstuy brooklyn and canarsie it iz crazy with shootouts . In da stuy and my part of canarsie are alot of bloods that are maddd gangster...

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

HP Teach: I have been a teacher in Humboldt Park for 10 years. I have seen improvements and setbacks. I have seen how the violence hurts the community. If the gang activity was minimized, the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

hils34: wow this stuff is crazy!!! yeah i agree with everyone. i have to research about a book. and i got here. everyone has different opinions. people shood not regret what they had done in the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

CaptainVideo: What you are doing is no different that all white communities banning together to keep blacks from moving in because they are afraid that they will bring crime and lower property values. Humbolt is not......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Atasha: It's wonderful hearing all these stories about my hometown. I was born in 1991 and attended PS 123K and JS 291. I used to live on Stockholm St., between Irving and Wyckoff Avenues, but 5......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

67502 May 7, 2008: Hutch has not grown since I came here in 1978. It's a retirement town with lots of low income housing and those people DO NOT support our downtown or help us stay in business.......

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

ChiPhi: Christopher and others, why is there always a: "...somebody needs to do something to help..." why don't people take responsibility and pride for their own? I have lived in this neighborhood for 5 years......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

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

"G": I will start by saying this, Acorn has got a good heart, it's intentions are to give the students the knowledge to succeed. The teachers are good some bad but mostly good. and most......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Cherie: Okay, can someone help me out? I'm looking at an apartment at corner of Broadway and Hart in Bed-Sty or is it Bushwick? Landlord says Bed-Sty. It's a good deal and the Myrtle subway's close.......

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

Arnie: When I lived in NYC, the Biker Gangs where almost non-existent. When they started to show up in the 60's, the other pedestrian gangs would kick their asses, for being loud mouth assholes. I now live in......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

peaceangel: The violence today was in Londonderry, and police say it was unlikely to be sectarian, more like rival gangs, and possibly orchestrated by a social networking site...is that why facebook cannot be opened in northern......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

Steven H.: antBlack is right. I grew up in Bushwick in the 60's and 70's, and moved to the other side of Brooklyn in 78. I remember it being a true neighborhood, my friends were black, hispanic,......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

none ya: i grew up on suydam and knickerbocker till i was 21 im 28 now i still go back all the time and bushwick ain't what it used to be shit i remember when even the......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Junito: Wow! It was hard reading all of that. Lets all study our cultures of the western hemisphere (e.g., Tainos, Aztecs, etc,.) We are decedents of moral, loving, industrious and spiritual people. We are greater then......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

E$MONEY(1920 BABY 4EVA): I lived in 1920 for most of my life apt,209.My name is eric a.k.a(egg)and i've seen many people from that area fall from chidhood to adult.Caugt up in gangs,drugs,and life hardships.I'm not saying that im......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Ms fresh {F.Y.G}ALL DAY: ACHS is da most borin skool in history nd I mean it.yea imma freshmen nd already wanna leave.We only in da second semester nd I still have sum same classes,I have da same teacher twice,my......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Yola: I also went to JHS 111. I've been searching the web for this school. I feel wonderful that I finally found a site. I graduated in 1969. Gangs, I don't remember....

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

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

belleville person: Belleville is pretty cool. And as John said why do you all have to put us down from beeing from a small towns. We dont have gangs like the people in the big city. We......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

Malou: What I am wondering is where do the gangs go when these housing projects are torn down? ...

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

anon (ppp-69-219-38-192.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net): Thats so true sb people should not go by every thing that they read and every thing you said is true, when ever the gangs was in war they will tell every one to get......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

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

jd: truly brave people don't need gangs or clubs to fight their battles. the real bad ass crazy will come after you alone, not that it's a good thing. most people are brave and better fighters......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

New York: So what has become of the Rivers family and the two boys? (Lafayette and Pharoah)? Anyone out there know? I heard Kotlowitz speak about 6 or 7 years ago here in Brooklyn and I liked......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Pettis - December 09, 2007: Your comments resonate the truth in so many ways. When you peel back the years, you'll find that many families raise their children in the Henry Horner Homes. The Mitchell family was a......

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

UpFromFlames: MaGoo: I'm really sorry to see that some knucklehead is deleting your comments here. This is sad, as it makes an informed dialogue impossible. Could whoever is doing this worry more about gangsters and profanity......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Stephen Weir: What a great site for all those that grew up in Irlam & Cadishead, a real trip down memory lane.I spent the best part of my childhood (60's early 70's) in Irlam.Bestmemories include venturing on......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Mr M Gates: yes i was raise in the horner and i will miss that place mainly because of the remember of growing up there and the many friend that was lost because of the gangs and also......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

crystal: i use to live in bushwick, from the time i was born until i was six years old, my grandmother lived on stockholm and bushwick ave, she passed away in 74, so my stepmother and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

brando: Ive lived in HP for 5 years and love many things about the Hood, like being so close to wicker Park and paying alot less rent. ., but I have never been able to understand......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Momma' Becky's daughter: Well, I actually Don't think that Hutchinson Is all THAT terrible... I mean, I know it's really not a whole lotta' fun, and there isn't much to do here... but the beauty of becoming an......

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

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

Chris Rodriguez: I live on jefferson av. off of evergreen an bushwick.... Ima tell u right now its the best place 2 live if u a kid. im 16 an shits hectic around here but i wouldn......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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

Cay: Realtors are the new gangsters. Selling dreams that go up in a puff of gunsmoke. Watch out. ...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

lil chan reppin columbus georgia : 74 till the world 6low niggas fuck all hatin ass slobs 6 bangin 5 hangin, 6 crownin 5 drownin FOLK NATION BITCH when i die show no pitty bring my soul to a gangsta city......

in response to: The London Police by Jamie

lil chan reppin columbus georgia : 74 till the world 6low niggas fuck all hatin ass slobs 6 bangin 5 hangin, 6 crownin 5 drownin FOLK NATION BITCH when i die show no pitty bring my soul to a gangsta city......

in response to: The London Police by Jamie

lil chan reppin columbus georgia : 74 till the world 6low niggas fuck all hatin ass slobs 6 bangin 5 hangin, 6 crownin 5 drownin FOLK NATION BITCH when i die show no pitty bring my soul to a gangsta city......

in response to: The London Police by Jamie

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

Xavi: I live in Humboldt Park, in the Paseo Boricua commercial strip. Reading through most of these comments, I have this to write: In order to understand the state of Humboldt Park and the Puerto Rican......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Will B: I went to JHS111 and graduated in 1978. I was in the Band with Mr. Montesanto and I remember some great days. The rebel devils were there, the stockholm boys and savage skulls.......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

jesus: gangs for live ...

in response to: Ja All City King by Da Letter

NAME: Brooklyn is a great place to be. I lived here since i was 2 and have seen many die, many leave, and many goin nowhere with there lives. 1st b careful about where u......

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

winter: I grew up in Essex County, and E.O. was one of my stomping grounds back and forth for 24 years. Back in the late 90's and early 2000's E.O was the spot you had Springdale......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

Eric: CCP project was absolutely the worst. I had many friends (good people) who lived there. I only hope they made it out OK. I graduated from Kennedy back in 1983 and went on to earn......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

A. Taylor: Get a life u wanna b gangsta and "cone" you sound like CHAV SCUM go rot in hell !!...

in response to: Graffiti by Duplo

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

steelisreal: I kinda gave up on the site instead of doing anything to help it but my feelings still stand in what I posted in my hot topics post that didn't get much attention, so I......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

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

iman: robert: yeah man i go to lafayette hs. by the way, if c.i. is bad already, you're right, it doesn't matter if it gets worse. just as long as it doesn't spread to some people.......

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

John: Well the reason from the sudden Crime wave and violence is because of the Muslim immigrant groups who migrated to Norway such as the pakistani gangs the Albanian gangs and the Moroccans who are all......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

John: Peter your wrong it used to be very rare but since the Muslim gangs came into norway its been happening quiete a bit they are very violent people....

in response to: Pictures from a drama in Oslo by Rune-Willem

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

iman: hey evilgentlemen, i actually did not know this was not a gang website at first, because i looked up gangs on google and that's how i found this site. but i'm not all about that......

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

iman: so jack, you used to roll with the old gangs? did you know them or were you in one of them? and if so, which one?...

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

EvilGentleman: jack, no matter what the wannabe gangsta kids say, I appreciate your humour. And although your spelling may not be perfect, it's a damn sight better than what I see in the gang shout-outs all......

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

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I'm thinking for our over 50 gang (even though at least two of us are under 50) we should take a lesson from these "real" gangstas and develop a language that only we understand. Here......

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

Swedish student: There is in fact a lot of crime in Oslo, but this can be said to be a problem in most capitols in the world. If you take a look at statistics from crime in......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

EvilGentleman: jack, see what happens when you use the word "gang" in the name of your post? These "geniuses" don't even bother reading the actual post itself, they are just tagging cyberspace via comments. If they......

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

baseballmomma: I live just outside of Nashville. In response to boston baller, youre right. Most of the time, when you see shoes on power lines, they are generally from gangs marking their territory or......

in response to: Shoes by Peter

timdog : im black and im 19 i live in fot greene brooklyn I love it out ther when im ther it is all good but when i leave peaple get shot stapped arrested all that......

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

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

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I agree with most previous comments. The hot topics doesn't function as I expect you'd hoped. It just highlights the searches for gangs and sex. I think that the overall grey is perfect. Color will detract......

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

Mika M: Im from finland and in finland we have only Helvetin enkelit ( Hells angels) gang, and it is so dangerous gang. And my own city, we have Vanhaliitto ( oldcommunity ). In that gang those......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

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

pierre: i graduated in 1977, it was a good school in the mid-seventies, i was in the band, we had a orchestra and a chorus. i remember that we couldn't go past a certain point......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

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

This is real!!!: I sit here sad as hell listening to all the disrespect everyone has for each other. WOW. im trying to understand how can we be so ignorant and not get our act together. I lived......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

genn: i can see that everyone has their own personal opinion about hellz angels. Its like a well known family. they have their business, problems, just like a normal family would. yes the sell yes they......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

iR: Thanks for the visual memories. I to grew up in Fredericton and lived on the north side up on Highland Ave. I can recall as a teen getting up in the......

in response to: Northside Fredericton by CE

Ashley: i have been researching gangs for about a monthe now and i think it is very fasinating to learn about!!!!!!!!! ...

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

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

Yo Miss: i've been teaching at one of the neighborhood middle schools in bushwick for 5 years now, and even in just that short amount of time i have seen a TREMENDOUS amount of positive change in......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Ringo: Susannah, christian bashing is not acceptable either, the object here is to point out that the actions of the few do not define the whole. I have a friend who is deeply christian and at......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

jeeff: one more comment on the subject before i'm officially done: to be absolutely clear, i question the morality of hell's angels members because biker gangs are ##voluntary organizations##, as opposed to racial, ethnic, or state groups,......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

jeeff: there's a big difference between regular bike clubs and biker gangs like the hell's angels. you're doing normal bikers a big disservice by blurring that line. the hell's angels who moved into the......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

jeeff: [[http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bikergangs/ont-massmurder-timeline.html]] that happened just outside my hometown. one of the victims lived right around the corner from my house in toronto. not saying i met him, but these guys are active in our......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

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

crlsgll: This conversation about Bushwick is great. I love reading the personal narratives that fuel each story and shed light in our differences; which is a blessing in disguise, for if we all agreed then this......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Phill: just to let you no, new yorks crime has gone done signifcantly, as well as gang activity, so though there may be gangs, and such and drugs, new york is nothing at all compared to......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

anon (65.69.27.7): i think that we should helpe stop the violece and all kinds of gangs...

in response to: Pie The Gang! by groovehouse

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