McPhatter speaks with Business Insider about New York City gang culture, including the formation of new gangs like the Woos and Choos, which emerged as collaborations between Bloods, Crips ...

In the 1950s, gangs in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Boston started ... In the 1970s and 1980s drugs began playing a larger role in gang operations, and violence followed, Bartollas ...

The work of Steven Siegel recently caught our eye (via Gothamist), and we are happy to bring you 24 beautiful photographs taken of New York in the 1980s. Mr. Siegel himself notes: "When young ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Three high-ranking members ... believed to have been founded as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s by people fleeing civil war in El Salvador.