Whenever they invaded Flatbush, the Bishops terrorized several black youth that were living in the Lott and Beverly street area. They crashed parties, administered beatings, turned over garbage cans, broke automobile antennas and even stabbed one …

Eight members of the Bishops were arrested: Gordon Stanchel, Richard Sinott, Jimmie Pitts, William Mack and Ralph Hanson and three others unnamed. Found on their possession were four bottles filled with gasoline, two kitchen knives, a pen knife, and a zip gun with .22 caliber bullets.

Blacks, Italians, Irish and Puerto Ricans all contributed to the estimated 6,000 gang members and hundreds of gangs throughout the city. The Rumble. As a rule, a typical gang would only stay on their turf unless they were out fighting their rivals in their turfs.

September 29, 1959 – Roosevelt Bennett is killed by members of the Bishops gang from Bedford-Stuyvesant after making a homosexual pass at the boys.

My Gang Name was Tony Tombstone Warlord St. John's Suicide Ringo Bishops. Our Enemies were Albany Chaplains, Itchy Brothers, The Hilltoppers and Crucifiers. Our Brother Clubs were Kingsboro Crosair Lords, Sumner Buccaneers.

In 1953, the El Savons appeared to change their name to the “El Ticos,” and engaged in some vicious war not with the Bishops, but this time with a gang called the Playboys.

This book is roughly 6″x9″ and has 370 pages and includes a look at the characters in the Mau Maus and the details of a gang killing that happened in February 1959 in front of the iconic Brooklyn Paramount Theater (now Long Island University).

Eric Schneider, author of Vampires, Dragons and Egyptian Kings, interviewed several former gang members who, in the 1950s, while in a gang, dreamed of becoming members of the Mafia. In fact some of these promising youths who were in the Red Wings from East Harlem, were recruited by members of the Five Families.

This book is roughly 6″x9″ and has 370 pages and includes a look at the characters in the Mau Maus and the details of a gang killing that happened in February 1959 in front of the iconic Brooklyn Paramount Theater (now Long Island University).

This book is roughly 6″x9″ and has 370 pages and includes a look at the characters in the Mau Maus and the details of a gang killing that happened in February 1959 in front of the iconic Brooklyn Paramount Theater (now Long Island University).