80 blocks from Tiffany’s.
This is the distance between the South Bronx and the world famous Tiffany’s jewelry store in Manhattan, New York.
Just
80 blocks separated the bedazzled boutique from the Savage Skulls and
Savage Nomads, two of New York’s most infamous Black and Puerto Rican
gangs of the 1970s.
The
Savage crews didn’t just travel downtown to steal fine jewelry. They
were known far and wide in New York for racketeering, assaults, girl
gangsters, pimping, and much, much more.
As
AllHipHop.com continues its “Gangs of New York” series, we invite you
to enjoy Gary Weiss’ classic 1979 documentary “80 Blocks from
Tiffany’s,” which recounts a vivid tale of the Savage Skulls and Savage
Nomads legendary reign of terror during the same period Hip-Hop was coming to life.