South Brooklyn Boys

South Brooklyn Boys (SBB) was a famous NYC street gang that was formed some time around the 1950's in Brooklyn, NY.

At the time of its origin, SBB consisted of several smaller neighborhood gangs that were located in the South Brooklyn area of Brooklyn made up of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Red Hook and Boerum Hill. Some of the gangs that made up the original South Brooklyn Boys were The SB Devils, the Garfield Boys, The SB Angels, SB Diapers, The Wanderers, the Degraw St boys, the Sackett St Boys, The Butler Gents, The Gowanus Boys and the Kane St. Midgets. The label South Brooklyn Boys represented the loosely connected affiliation that all of these neighborhood gangs associated under.

The 1962 Book, [All the Way Down: The Violent Underworld of Street Gangs By Vincent Riccio, Bill Slocum, featured real accounts of the Gowanus Boys. The gang was located in the Gowanus section of South Brooklyn, and was one of the earlier neighborhood crews that would evolve into the larger, loosely affiliated South Brooklyn Boys street gang.

Reputed Lucchese mobster, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso was a famous member of the early South Brooklyn Boys [Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires, by Selwyn Raab, Page 470 http://books.google.com/books?id=5nAt6N8iQnYC&pg=PA470&lpg=PA470&dq=%22south+brooklyn+boys%22&source=web&ots=FMBxlnZtDP&sig=5xTtbWazXj2DOalqkxZ3KGkRjC4#PPA470,M1 ] [The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia By Guy Lawson, Page 147, http://books.google.com/books?id=NYGfl0YpZAsC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=%22south+brooklyn+boys%22&source=web&ots=ThUF5oRmyw&sig=ZN7g9o1-gFkk02SrrN6PdNctNRs#PPA147,M1] .

Since the 1950's, South Brooklyn Boys has represented not only the original 1950's gang, but many generations of kids growing up in the South Brooklyn area, most specifically the Italian section of Carroll Gardens. The term has not only been used as a gang association, but also as a loosely connected affiliation for which many neighborhood kids felt a kinship. In the 1980's and 1990's, a new incarnation of the South Brooklyn Boys was very active. [The Shooting: A Memoir, by Kemp Powers, Page 69, http://books.google.com/books?id=FpzgH0asKvAC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22south+brooklyn+boys%22&source=web&ots=2PMbB09E8E&sig=3vuedhSYUjX9sumZ2j094w7vwCU#PPA69,M1] .

External links

* [http://www.stonegreasers.com/greaser/sbb.html South Brooklyn Boys/Garfield Boys Connection]
* [http://www.gaylords712.com/bronx.html South Brooklyn Boys and the Pelham Bay Park Gaylords]

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