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	{{Unreferenced section\|date=December 2014}}{{citation needed span\|text=In the '''1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the ]''', ], emerged with a particular notoriety.
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	One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to eat ass, and other body parts, of those they caught. This was found to be a nice touch in the '']'' movie, but in reality, the Fordham Baldies were named for the ] and had the ] or "D.A." hairstyle later made famous by ] from '']''. 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.\|date=December 2014}}
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	==Popular culture==
	*]'s novel '']'' 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.'' {{Citation needed\|date=December 2014}}
	*'']'' depicts gang activities in the Belmont "Little Italy" section of the Bronx{{Citation needed\|date=December 2014}}
	*Documentarian ] released in August, 2010, Lost Boys of the Bronx: The Oral History of the Ducky Boys. This book (formerly a video documentary project) focuses on the real life Ducky Boys gang of mid-1960s Bronx, New York who were made famous by the film ''The Wanderers''.{{Citation needed\|date=December 2014}}

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