South Brooklyn Boys

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South Brooklyn Boys (SBB) was a famous NYC street gang that was formed some time around the 1950's in Brooklyn, NY.

At the time of its origin, SBB consisted of several smaller neighborhood gangs that were located in the South Brooklyn area of brooklyn made up of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Red Hook and Boerum Hill. Some of the gangs that made up the original South Brooklyn Boys were The SB Devils, Garfield Boys, The SB Angels, SB Diapers, The Wanderers, Degraw St boys, Sackett St Boys, The Butler Gents, The Gowanus Boys and the Kane St. Midgets. The label South Brooklyn Boys represented the loosely connected affiliation that all of these neighborhood gangs associated under.

The 1962 Book, All the Way Down: The Violent Underworld of Street Gangs By Vincent Riccio, Bill Slocum, featured real accounts of one early neighborhood gang that formed in pre-World War 2 South Brooklyn called the Gowanus Boys. The Gowanus Boys were located in the Gowanus section of South Brooklyn, and were one of the earlier neighborhood crews that would evolve into the larger, loosely affiliated South Brooklyn Boys street gang.

Reputed Lucchese mobster, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso was a famous member of the early South Brooklyn Boys^[1]^[2].

Since the 1950's, South Brooklyn Boys has represented not only the original 1950's gang, but many generations of kids growing up in the South Brooklyn area^[3], most specifically the Italian section of Carroll Gardens. The term has not only been used as a gang association, but also as a loosely connected affiliation for which many neighborhood kids felt a kinship. In the 1980's and 1990's, a new incarnation of the South Brooklyn Boys was very active.^[4].