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Gangs of New York
Despite strict gun laws and rampant gentrification, gangs continue to thrive throughout the city (even in Chelsea!). Here’s a look at the five biggest threats.
Though NYC’s crime rate is the lowest it’s been in years, gang-motivated incidents have soared 37 percent since 2005—including a recent deadly bout between bangers at high schools in tony Chelsea and Gramercy.
According to the mayor’s Preliminary 2008 Fiscal Report, New York is home to some 17,000 gang members. “For a city as large as New York, it has extremely low numbers,” says Lou Savelli, retired commander of the NYPD Detective Bureau’s Major Case Squad, Gang Division, and editor of Gangs Across America (gangsacrossamerica.com).
But don’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet. “No area is immune to gang activity—I don’t care how wealthy your community is,” says Andrew Grascia, president of New York Gang Investigators Association. “When the largest growth of the gang population has been in rural America, to say Brownsville is worse than Manhattan would be inexcusable.”
“New York doesn’t have clearly demarcated gang territories like Chicago and Los Angeles,” adds David Brotherton, chair of the sociology department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Yet in Staten Island, where authorities have identified more than 1,000 members in roughly 55 different organizations, 600 affiliates live within a short distance of the 120th precinct alone. “The exact number is hard to know because they’re recruiting new members all the time,” says Assistant District Attorney Michael Drews at the Supreme Court Bureau.
Curiously, Manhattan lacks the hardest stats. “The NYPD is extremely secretive and very conscious of its public image,” says Brotherton. “It doesn’t want to give the impression that anything is outside of its control.”
DOMINICANS DON’T PLAY
Battles between DDP and Trinitarios in Gramercy, Chelsea, Harlem, Morris Heights and Washington Heights have garnered lots of media attention, despite its relatively low membership. “It reflects the spike in the Dominican population,” says Capital Region Gang Prevention coordinator Ron “Cook” Barrett. “It’s a game of ‘power by numbers.’”ALMIGHTY LATIN KING AND QUEEN NATION
ALKQN’s 5,000 members operate in Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Park Slope, East Harlem and the Bronx. “We felt like a family,” says former member Brandon Cory, who wrote Sunset Park Latin Kings. Grascia calls ALKQN the “the most sophisticated organization out there—the next La Cosa Nostra.” ALKQN has filed for nonprofit status in New York.MARA SALVATRUCHA
MS-13 is a machete-wielding Latin American group that has been assigned its own special task force. “In El Salvador [where it originated], the machete is an acceptable weapon,” says Grascia. The gang has members in Corona, Jamaica, Flushing, and the Rockaways in Queens; the Parkchester and Woodhaven sections of the Bronx; and Sunset Park, Brooklyn.TRINITARIOS
This mostly Dominican gang has chapters in Bushwick, South Williamsburg, Brownsville and Bed-Stuy. Its members recruit heavily at high schools like DeWitt Clinton, often brandish bats and razors, and can be found trash-talking on YouTube.THE BLOODS
There are roughly 10,000 Bloods in the New York City area. “There is no one leader because there are so many different sets,” says Savelli, “but for some reason, they attract the biggest assholes.” Sets include Bushwick’s Pretty Boy Family and Linden Street Bloods; and the Clay Avenue Bloods in the Bronx. More Bloods can be found in Crown Heights, East New York, Mott Haven and the Stapleton section of Staten Island.
Time Out New York / Issue 651 : Mar 19–25, 2008
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and they all bow down to the russian mafiya. Panyatna sukee?
it looks lyk da bloodz run newyork and da eastcoast. wiv mre den 10,000 members in newyork alone. wat abt da crips. i guess der nt seen az a threat by da police.
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AY DIOS MIO EH VERDAD K ETO 3NITARIO SON MENSO POLKE USAN EL #3 CUANDO ECRIBEN 3NITARIO PALOMOS 3 LOVE TO ALL MY MANITOS. UTEDE NO PUEDEN CONTROLA CONEY ISLAND NI EL BX NI FORDHAM PALOMO EH D33333 MANIN DIOS 333 LIBERTAD333 FUCK CLINTON CITY NI NUEVA YORK EOE RABIAAA. JAJAJAJA ETO 3NI SON CHITOSO AY DIOS SANTO. SI SE PONEN LA BANDANA VERDE EH ENCONDIA SE LA PONEN EL NEGRO ES EL MEJOR DE TOITO KON LO 3 PUNTO. LO K CONTROLAN SON LOS HIJOZ DE SANCH3Z LOS DDP's. AMOR DE 33333333333.
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Why arn't all the gangs really mentioned in nyc? There's alot more than that I'm sure! Like the Crips,asian gangs,so on etc........
The Trinitarios, and Domenicans Dont Play, Latin KIngs, dont really fuck with nobody unless provoked. But these Blood Assholes have a tendacy of initiation slashings on women, Bloods are cowards and only slash those who are not capapble of fighting back. Ms-13 is a major force to be reconed with and there no fear of death additude is what we should be worried about. I just listend to my police scanner and a women was just slashed by a blood in 190st and pomanade, fuck with the real gang problem!
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What about Crips?
italians dont run shit nigga. lets be serious, they only run their mouth in their little blocks but they scared to death the minute they leave their neighborhoods. lol. fuck out of here.
hey man dis is nothin compared 2 how many gangs in total r in NY man n dis r not da biggest threats only MS-13, dey crazy man i wouldnt mess wit dem 4 nothin
Enjoy
very biased I think. Of the 5 gangs mentioned, 4 are Hispanic. None of the Vietnamese gangs that are also prevalent in NYC were mentioned.