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Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY #989754
04/21/20 10:45 AM
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I noticed the early and mid nineties saw a lot of violent crews in NY. The common denomonator was:
1) they were all in their early to mid 20’s
2) none were made
3) all were very violent
4) all were involved in high risk crimes such as armed robbery and home invasions
5) all had very short careers
6) most of the crews cooperated
7) all these crews seemed to emerge the day after goodfella’s was released
8) this was clearly a “ new york thing “.
9) philly had a bit of a war but nothing like the wannabe crews in ny.

You had the tanglewood boys, gianinni crew, bath ave crew, 20th ave crew, and a few more. The killings commited by made guys was much more methodical such as lucchese and colombo. Whereas the young wannabe crews were just reckless and violent.
Looks like that era is done.
Did goodfella’s contribute?

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Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: Lenox] #989755
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From what I gathered it seemed like the Bonanno's had plenty of young loose cannons those days. Correct?

Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: Lenox] #989757
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I think the movie New Jack City had more of an impression than Goodfellas.

Thats just a guess , i didnt even know about the bath ave crew before that documentary. And the other crews i know nothing about.

Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: Lenox] #989758
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Vito Guzzo was the leader of the giannini crew. Very violent. However, all of those crews had a bunch of violent but brainless guys. Im talking dumb and many used crack cocaine. Tommy Reynolds was a total crackhead.
Ironically, the made guys that did take their money had absolutely no intention of making them, they were much too violent and reckless. The made guys would always lead them on as if they would be proposed but it never happened. Thats what happened to Gulino. Although some made money, they only made it through very violent, high risk crimes such as home invasions, armed robberies, a d drug dealing. The shelf life for those kinds of crimes are very short and most made guys know this. They dont want that kind of heat. Depending on the scale of operation, some turn a blind eye to drugs but the ither reckless cowboy shit brings in too much heat. Thise guys always end up dead or cooperating. Bad news.

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most reckless/violent today are still bonanno and colombo?

Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: TheDon1999] #989763
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Originally Posted by TheDon1999
most reckless/violent today are still bonanno and colombo?


yes but the violence is much less now due to camera’s, law enforcenent technology, and heavy sentences.
back in the 1990’s, the violence was confined to NYC, particularly south brooklyn and queens.
new jersey never had crews like that for some reason. even though jersey had all 5 crews, the younger guys just werent violent. killing was rare. in fact, jersey never had bath ave or giannini type crews.

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The most violent crew in the 2000s was in jersey
"The fuckpants crew" who was run by jackie "you know who my father was ???" jr aprile
Soldiers :
dino zerilli
carlo renzi
Associates :
Matush
A little bit of joke in these tough days wink

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Originally Posted by MeyerLansky
The most violent crew in the 2000s was in jersey
"The fuckpants crew" who was run by jackie "you know who my father was ???" jr aprile
Soldiers :
dino zerilli
carlo renzi
Associates :
Matush
A little bit of joke in these tough days wink


Its pronounced "Fadda".
I feel like Matush was more hardcore than all of them.

Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: Lenox] #989770
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The Colombos had the Bay Parkway Boys and the Wimpy Boy Social Club.

Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: Lenox] #989775
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There were so many of those "three letter crews" too.

DMS, TMR, and many others. Some of these crews (like the two I mentioned) were extremely heavy in the 90's.

Wouldn't be surprised if LCN plucked a few of these guys.

DMS was Doc Marten Skins
TMR was The Master Race

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Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: Lenox] #989786
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There was also the sunset park skins in brooklyn and they were puerto rican. Ny skin heads were white, black, and spanish.
They all hung on the lower east side.

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Alphabet city too??

Basically part of punk rock movement

Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: Lenox] #989815
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Originally Posted by Lenox
There was also the sunset park skins in brooklyn and they were puerto rican. Ny skin heads were white, black, and spanish.
They all hung on the lower east side.


Yeah that NYC metallic hardcore band Merauder were sunset park skins. They're Puerto Ricans.

Re: Violent Crews in the 1990’s- NY [Re: furio_from_naples] #989830
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Originally Posted by furio_from_naples
The Colombos had the Bay Parkway Boys and the Wimpy Boy Social Club.

I read about them, headed by Tommy Shots Gioeli back in the early 90s. Few of them became made though but snitched.

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