“On April 4th, 1973, Outlaw walked past the ticket booth at Steeplechase Park and joined the Homicides youth gang… Sporting black gaucho hats, motorcycle boots, and earrings, the gang carved out a turf from Stillwell Avenue to West 31st Street.”
Nicky Louie is the leader of the Ghost Shadows, Chinatown’s most powerful youth gang. Every night, he paces Mott Street, wary of incursions from the White Eagles and the Flying Dragons, rival gangs. At stake is affiliation with Chinatown’s richest tong, the On Leong.
“It will take more than a few gambling raids to shake the historical forces at work in Chinatown today. The Mott Street gangs are back. This is the story of who controls that street, and how they got there.”
“When I first saw the Ramones I said, ‘This is the best band in the world.’ I went up to them after the set and ‘You
guys are great! You guys are great!’ That’s all I could say.”
The Clash and the Pistols have established social realism as an essential part of punk ideology, but this does not make their music the “direct expression of the contemporary working class.”
