Reminiscing about gangs
Subject: Bed Stuy - Do or Die
just read a little more. lol has anyone on here been around long enough to remember way back in the late 80's and real early 90's before guliani came around when gangs like deceps ran the streets with uzi subs 'n 007's? Playing one punch knockout in the subways and streets as a battle with each other to see who can knock out the most white people walking around with their heads up they asses and not paying attention. aaahh the good 'ol days. haha So anyway what was the gang slogan for crown heights? It went "Crown Heights BLANK BLANK" I'd bet my last dollar noone knows the answer. If noone puts it up by tomorrow I'll post it. :-)Comments
-
Subject: Re: Bed Stuy - Do or Die
Old gang trivia wrote: just read a little more. lol has anyone on here been around long enough to remember way back in the late 80's and real early 90's before guliani came around when gangs like deceps ran the streets with uzi subs 'n 007's? Playing one punch knockout in the subways and streets as a battle with each other to see who can knock out the most white people walking around with their heads up they asses and not paying attention. aaahh the good 'ol days. haha So anyway what was the gang slogan for crown heights? It went "Crown Heights BLANK BLANK" I'd bet my last dollar noone knows the answer. If noone puts it up by tomorrow I'll post it. :-)
Don't know ask one of these people, they seem to be the gang experts. lol
http://www.zwire.com/site/tab10.cfm?newsid=15515923&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=552856&rfi=6 -
LOL that's a good article HA. That's pretty true about the gangs trying to reorganize in crown heights. I hear a lot about that where I work now. They're all mad that so many people are moving there and driving up the rents and making their old neighborhood look "soft" as they call it. the gangs - as loosely organized as they are right now - in east new york, brownsville, etc are thinking crown heights is going soft with all them weird looking white people walkin around. LOL (I'm white by the way) People gotta watch out although i don't know if they'll be worse than the 80's gangs as I mentioned the decepticons who would run wild sometimes with 200+ members knocking out every muthah f'er they came into contact with. I shouldn't have said they knocked out only white people before because thinking back I saw lots of blacks get snuffed by them too. Anyone remember the nights in greenwich village. back then the drug dealers owned the streets east of 3rd ave pretty much and FORGET east of 1st Ave - WARZONE. But deceps would go to where the outdoor cafes & restaurants were in the west village and along b'way, etc and flip tables over while people are sitting at them eating, rob women's purses and jewelry and then knock their boyfriends out, smash car windows of people waiting for lights. I'm white and grew up in flatbush so I had a few experiences with them but to tell y'all the truth i kind of miss those days b/c it was exciting. yeah nah never mind i don't miss those days! haha Anyone got any good 80's or really early 90's stories about gangs in nyc? BTW: if I sound like I'm really into all this, I am I grew up with it around me and I guess so happy to be in a better place now that it's fun to look back on them days. I'm a drug counselor now - lol. I think I'll join this site. ANyone mind if a person from Queens is on here?? lol
-
I don't think anyone will mind if someone from Queens joins but if people take the bait and start trading gang reminiscences, I'll split it into a new thread.
-
Oh okay I understand. Maybe when I join later tonight I'll do it myself add a new thread. (I think I can do that right? Looks like it.) I don't wanna glorify gangs (of course!). Actually, I was terrified of them back then and thought it would be cool to trade stories with others who went through it. Thanks!
-
EmilyM wrote: I don't think anyone will mind if someone from Queens joins but if people take the bait and start trading gang reminiscences, I'll split it into a new thread.
Its a reality and they are really big in Prospect Height so I think that all of you that think you live in Beverly Hills need to wake up. The Bloods are so strong out there its ridiculous. You need to be a little more proactive instead of ignoring the issue. St. Johns bet Underhill and Washington has one of the biggest gang leader/Drug Dealer living on that block. At least the people in the article stood up for something. Wake up people. :idea: -
I demand a thread-split!
-
Gang Trivia wrote: People gotta watch out although i don't know if they'll be worse than the 80's gangs as I mentioned the decepticons who would run wild sometimes with 200+ members knocking out every muthah f'er they came into contact with. I shouldn't have said they knocked out only white people before because thinking back I saw lots of blacks get snuffed by them too. Anyone remember the nights in greenwich village. back then the drug dealers owned the streets east of 3rd ave pretty much and FORGET east of 1st Ave - WARZONE. But deceps would go to where the outdoor cafes & restaurants were in the west village and along b'way, etc and flip tables over while people are sitting at them eating, rob women's purses and jewelry and then knock their boyfriends out, smash car windows of people waiting for lights. I'm white and grew up in flatbush so I had a few experiences with them but to tell y'all the truth i kind of miss those days b/c it was exciting. yeah nah never mind i don't miss those days! haha Anyone got any good 80's or really early 90's stories about gangs in nyc? BTW: if I sound like I'm really into all this, I am I grew up with it around me and I guess so happy to be in a better place now that it's fun to look back on them days. I'm a drug counselor now - lol. I think I'll join this site. ANyone mind if a person from Queens is on here?? lol
Damn lived here all my life, a white girl, and dont remember any of that crap 200+ roving the streets punching people out. I used to uprock in the park at the Village and I dont remember that. I do remember the only gangs were the FMD's, Crazy Cats, and a few others motorcylce gans down on Columbia and Third Avenue. There were MANY graffiti gangs.
The only war I remember is the one between Park Slope and Bay Ridge. There was a sit down and a truce was signed. -
Can you dig it?
-
Subject: Re: Bed Stuy - Do or Die
Old gang trivia wrote: just read a little more. lol has anyone on here been around long enough to remember way back in the late 80's and real early 90's before guliani came around when gangs like deceps ran the streets with uzi subs 'n 007's? Playing one punch knockout in the subways and streets as a battle with each other to see who can knock out the most white people walking around with their heads up they asses and not paying attention. aaahh the good 'ol days. haha So anyway what was the gang slogan for crown heights? It went "Crown Heights BLANK BLANK" I'd bet my last dollar noone knows the answer. If noone puts it up by tomorrow I'll post it. :-)
So whats the slogan for crown heights? BTW I have heard stories about the deceps 100 deep but was too young at the time to see it firsthand. -
Just 2 point out-- wrote: not that to i want to get involved with nuts fighting over crazy stuff on this site but i just happen upon it and see someone wrote that 201 eastern parkway is in a neihborhood called prospect heights. however, 201 eastern parkway must be near the beginning of eastern parkway i believe near washington ave on (i think) the east side of the park. the neihborhood is called crown heights always has as far as i know. just wanted to point it out. i was reading all posts i think prospect heights is a name that was once given to the area probably 100 years ago and maybe people new to the area started using it again when they moved in after the crack epidemic put "crown heights" on the map? lol just my opinion. Thank you thank you.......
Oh, that was me. Actually, you might be right (according to the encyclopedia of New York). I just use the term "Prospect Heights" as slang for anywhere I feel safe walking. lol. :P
Ok. No more off-topic posts from me. -
I remember the Decepticons well, as they used to try to terrorize the kids from my school when we were getting out. In retrospect, they weren't much more than neighborhood bullies writ large. I've seen packs of them a few dozen deep, but never any weapons more than brass knuckles. And this was to attack some of the nerdiest most defenseless kids in this city (my fellow alum Candicissima can attest to this).
-
Stacey, you must have been 1) locked in a closet somewhere with no access to a window, television or newspaper; or 2) madly in love with someone during the late 80's if you never heard of the deceps. ;-)
-
Oh another one.... Carnivore. I just discovered it today but I'm gettin off this site now I thought it was cool at first but it's turning out to be a bunch of corny know-it-alls. Brass knuckles Carnivore??? Sure you're not thinking of a gang from the 20's? The decepticons were drug dealing, gun and knife carrying, murderous street thugs who would target anyone in sight. I grew up in a housing project in Flatbush and I remember bodies lying in the street every few days, gunshots several times each day, and blah blah blah. My blood pressure can't stand to be told by anonymous people on a website what the decepticons were and were not. Good bye everyone. It was short....
-
So do you think he lives in Douglaston or Forest Hills? :P
-
But first I gotta point out!! GREAT ARTICLE Q-Train!!! Where did you find that????????? She mentioned the one punch knockout I was talking about earlier!! I remembered that but was wondering if I remembered what they used to call it correctly. Sometimes they'd say, "Yo n**gaz is goin to the city tonight to knockout". (They usually stayed away from Stacey and her friends rockin in the park though)
Anyway great link q-train thanks. I'm leaving now so the answer to the question I was gonna post tomorrow is:
Crown Heights We Fight! Actually sounds corny enough to be something the hipsters who are moving in there now would make up. lol (I wouldn't have said that back in the days when I went to Tilden H.S.!!) -
Oh I hit Carnivore's nerve. I pointed out the fact that he made an ignorant comment that the Decepticons carried brass knuckles and bothered "defenseless nerds" and then he makes a pathetic attempt to make fun of me for moving someplace nicer. Well, I live in Ozone Park bonehead and I am a drug counselor in Canarsie. No Ozone Park is not anywhere near as hardcore as where I grew up and lived for 30 years, but I don't think there's anything wrong with moving to a safer & more peaceful place. Next time don't comment on things you don't know about and people won't insult you. Okay NOW I'm leaving and not coming back.
Mod note: Psst. You can come back if you want but don't call people names, mmkay? -
Gang Trivia wrote: Oh I hit Carnivore's nerve. I pointed out the fact that he made an ignorant comment that the Decepticons carried brass knuckles and bothered "defenseless nerds" and then he makes a pathetic attempt to make fun of me for moving someplace nicer. Well, I live in Ozone Park bonehead and I am a drug counselor in Canarsie. No Ozone Park is not anywhere near as hardcore as where I grew up and lived for 30 years, but I don't think there's anything wrong with moving to a safer & more peaceful place. Next time don't comment on things you don't know about and people won't insult you. Okay NOW I'm leaving and not coming back.
Schmuck. I was attacked by them twice. I'm just telling you what I saw firsthand.
I'm not suggesting it was any sort of "standard armament," just the worst thing I saw while I was running the fuck away from them. -
Oh I didn't know you got attacked twice by them as when you first said you know them well, you didn't mention it. You only said they terrorized kids at your school. But listen man, don't be so hard on yourself, I'm sure you weren't that nerdy and defenseless. Hence, your earlier comments tied in with your later comments.
-
Gang Trivia wrote: But first I gotta point out!! GREAT ARTICLE Q-Train!!! Where did you find that????????? She mentioned the one punch knockout I was talking about earlier!! I remembered that but was wondering if I remembered what they used to call it correctly. Sometimes they'd say, "Yo n**gaz is goin to the city tonight to knockout". (They usually stayed away from Stacey and her friends rockin in the park though)
I guess you didn't read the part where she says they didn't carry guns.
Anyway great link q-train thanks. I'm leaving now so the answer to the question I was gonna post tomorrow is:
Crown Heights We Fight! Actually sounds corny enough to be something the hipsters who are moving in there now would make up. lol (I wouldn't have said that back in the days when I went to Tilden H.S.!!)Gang Trivia wrote: But listen man, don't be so hard on yourself, I'm sure you weren't that nerdy and defenseless. Hence, your earlier comments tied in with your later comments.
Believe me, I was totally nerdy and defenseless. -
WAKE UP wrote: [quote=EmilyM]I don't think anyone will mind if someone from Queens joins but if people take the bait and start trading gang reminiscences, I'll split it into a new thread.
Its a reality and they are really big in Prospect Height so I think that all of you that think you live in Beverly Hills need to wake up. The Bloods are so strong out there its ridiculous. You need to be a little more proactive instead of ignoring the issue. St. Johns bet Underhill and Washington has one of the biggest gang leader/Drug Dealer living on that block. At least the people in the article stood up for something. Wake up people. :idea:
Jesus, what is your deal? I am a mod, therefore my job is to split threads when they get too digressive so that things stay organized. I'm not debating what reality is or whether the thread should exist, only whether these posts belong in this thread. Which they don't, so I'm splitting it now. I think the chip on your shoulder might be showing a little more than you mean it to. -
Carnivore wrote: Believe me, I was totally nerdy and defenseless.
Some things never change... :P -
nybt wrote: [quote=Carnivore]Believe me, I was totally nerdy and defenseless.
Some things never change... :P
You'll be the defenseless one once we hit the air hockey table! :evil: -
I've been living in PH for almost 30 years and do not recall anything about these gangs - I went to PS 9 right on underhill and live(d) on sterling/butler - I must have been pretty sheltered! Although, I do recall the rastas on underhill selling pot out of the corner store......
-
Hey Carnivore, the girl in the article who said that deceps didn't carry guns is a former gang member herself. They tend to lie sometimes. My point is that I don't need a news article to tell me what weapons the decepticons carried okay? I don't have to check the archives of the local newspapers either. I was unfortunate enough to have lived in a city housing project in Flatbush and saw with my own eyes. I knew gang members who carried guns! OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAY????? Geeeeeeeeez give it up already. I could see being stubborn if you know what you're talking about but it's like you're grasping for straws just to get the last word on a subject that you obviously have little or no knowledge of. I cannot believe someone 'who claims' to have grown up in and gone to school in Brooklyn is going to argue with me over this. Either you knew of the gang and what they were about or you didn't. You obviously didn't based on nearly all of your comments tonight. So just shut up already!!
-
Is your keyboard sticky? Some compressed air might clean it up... if not, keyboards are pretty inexpensive these days...
Isn't it entirely possible, with a gang as prolific as the Deceps evidently were, that some carried, some didn't? -
Fuel. Fire.
"The arrival of the Bloods and the Crips in New York City is overplayed the same way the Decepticons were overplayed, the same way the danger of comic books was overplayed and the same way that the threat of gangster rap was overplayed." - Rev. Michael Eric Dyson, Columbia University professor of African-American studies and the author of "Race Rules" (Addison-Wesley, 1996) -
That which I desire?
-
nybt wrote: That which I desire?
Metallica Rules!
Anyone see that HBO special on the latin kings and how badass they are now?
Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
- 40K All Categories
- 27.1K Neighborhoods
- 5.1K Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
- 7.1K Prospect Heights
- 2.3K Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy
- 8K Park Slope
- 549 Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
- 442 Flatbush/Midwood/Ditmas Park
- 657 BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens)
- 151 Red Hook
- 104 Gowanus
- 304 Bay Ridge/Bensonhurst
- 130 Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay
- 270 Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown
- 598 Windsor Terrace / Kensington
- 673 Greenwood Heights and Sunset Park
- 749 Brooklyn and Beyond
- 6.3K Stuff
- 86 Brooklyn Back When
- 1.2K Brooklyn Pets
- 257 Brooklyn Kids
- 241 Brooklyn Eats
- 51 Brooklyn Booze
- 3.6K The Lounge / Random Stuff
- 611 Brooklyn Politics
- 122 Brooklyn Sports and Fitness
- 111 Brooklyn Photos
- 339 Site Issues
- 8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- 6.2K Listings
- 1.1K APARTMENTS and REAL ESTATE
- 1.3K Sales Openings Events
- 2.3K The Classifieds