I admit i've only been to NYC once and only drove through Brooklyn but films like this instill me with fear for the place lol. They depict Brooklyn as this extremely unpleasant place where hate and violence seems to be the norm.
I assume that it's an accurate depiction but if it isn't please enlighten me.
because people from all different countries were moving into the US all at once. Naturally, NYC was the place to go, and Brooklyn was where many people ended up because of the available housing and low rates. This caused fights between the different ethnicities trying to hold onto their own beliefs and culture. This trickled down even into neighborhoods where everyone was of similar heritage. People were fighting to hold onto what little bit of the world they could control. This made for natural boundaries in streets. It came to block vs block. That way it was easy to tell, just by where someone lived, what gang they were in. Back then, neighborhoods were self-sustained, with grocery stores, restaurants and everything, not one big store for the city like things are now. This phase only lasted a few years. I've heard first hand accounts from people who lived in Brooklyn at the time. It was similar to 90's South-Central LA; everyone fighting for their one little piece of the planet. It was all about survival.
you can either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.
Yep my dad and my uncle were both part of these types of gangs back in the day, and things got pretty mean. My family had migrated from Puerto Rico, and the Puerto Rican gangs used to battle it out all the time with both the Irish and the Italian ones, it was pretty violent. I like this movie mostly because it captures how just bloody things got when the two gangs would fight each other.
shareAre not Brooklyne violent today? Btw I think there are a ton of dealers on your block. Sorry, but killing one dealer aint gonna do nothing. To much money in the business.
shareYea Brooklyn when I was in high school and junior high school was MUCH more violent than in these period gang movies.
Firearms became the rule, not the exception, the gangs were much more profitable due to a more sophisticated drug trade, project buildings became much taller, resulting in many more people per square mile
misspelled freaking and Brooklyn
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