"You need a meshing of economic, social and political leadership, so that when they go to City Hall, they will not be perceived as the old Bronx gang."

The Manhattan district attorney's office consented to a hearing on the evidence, which involves information obtained during a federal investigation of a Bronx gang, C&C.

Real names of Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s) are used.

The Manhattan Corporation hires a ruthless and psychopathic mercenary named Hammer (Vic Morrow) who turns the various Bronx gangs against each other to ensure Anne is returned.

Richard Price's novel The Wanderers and movie of the same name starring young Ken Wahl and Karen Allen document early Bronx gangs.

Eight people were charged yesterday with participating in a Bronx gang whose members posed as city police officers, kidnapped reputed drug dealers for ransom or their drugs and then murdered six of them.

In recent years, evidence has emerged to suggest that members of a violent Bronx gang were responsible for the shooting, which left Mr. Peterson dead and another bouncer wounded.

What is more, new evidence has surfaced in the past two years, they say, that would help to show that the real killers were men from a violent Bronx gang called C&C whom their clients had nothing to do with.

Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s)

Another important piece of evidence, obtained by defense attorneys in the past two years, was first unearthed in 2000 during a long-running federal investigation of a Bronx gang, C&C.