Albanian Boys

Albanian Boys
Founded by Albanians imigriants
Founding location Bronx, New York
Years active 1980-present
Territory

Williamsbridge, Bronx

Hamtramck, Michigan 1980's
Ethnicity Albanian
Membership (est.) Unknown

The Albanian Boys, also known as the Albanian Bad Boys[1] or Albanian Boys Inc. is a gang of Albanians who operate in central Bronx.[2] The gang was founded in the Bronx, New York by immigrants who had come to the states after the Kosovo War. Members of the gang would consistently get into fights with African-American and Hispanic gangs in the streets and at schools.

See also

Notes

  1. Jones, p.65-66
  2. "Just Boys Being Boys, or Vicious Gangs?". The New York Times. January 16, 1992. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
  3. "More than two dozen arrested by joint FBI-NYPD in Albanian drug gang probe". New York Daily News. June 9, 2010. Retrieved April 14, 2013.

References

  • School of Social Administration University of Chicago Irving A. Spergel George Herbert Jones Professor. The Youth Gang Problem : A Community Approach: A Community Approach. Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0195357868
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