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	==Introduction==
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	Many cities and times have seen active ] and gang members congregating and controlling territory, however in the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the ], New York, emerged with a particular notoriety.
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	==Mid twentieth-century Bronx gangs==
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	Gangs of the Bronx included
	*the Fordham Baldies
	*the Fordham Flames
	*the Golden Guineas (a predominantly ] gang)
	*the Villa Avenue Gang
	*the Bailey Gang

	==In popular culture==
	*Richard Price's novel ''The Wanderers'' and movie of the same name starring young ] and ] document early Bronx gangs. Much of the film was shot in the neighborhoods depicted, including the residential neighborhoods, the armed forces recruiting center on the Fordham Road overpass above the Grand Concourse, and Krum's ice cream parlor 100 yards/meters south on the Grand Concourse. Although the movie's heroes, ''The Wanderers'' were fictitious, the movie's villains were explicitly named ''The Fordham Baldies.''
	*'']'' depicts gang activities in the Belmont "Little Italy" section of the Bronx
	*]'s '']'' is set in Manhattan, but has similar sensibilities.

	==Trivia==
	Rumors often swept Bronx high schools in the 1950s and 1960s that "the Baldies were coming" to confront the student body, at the generally docile ] and the more macho, all-male ]. Such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and long disruptions.

	The Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught.

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