Baldwin, Long Island, New York. My hometown has gangs now? We used to have high school fraternities that evolved into suburban street gangs; most began as " Athletic clubs", except Alpha Sigma Phi-the thug frat.

BALDWIN'S THE ' HOOD? Really. Well Southampton surprised me as it's just SICK RICH!!! That's not to say that the MS-13 presence has not been growing Island-wide. "MS-13 seems to put its palm print on Nassau and Suffolk Counties," said Sliwa, with gangs located in communities such as Valley Steam, Baldwin, Freeport, Copiague, Brentwood and Huntington Station. Other MS-13 influences can be found in Riverhead, he said. "They're entrenched. They're growing."
http://www.indyeastend.com/Articles-i-2007-08-08-69243.1131…

MS-13 Gang “Entrenched” On Long Island

The East End, like many places around the country, is being infiltrated by a violent gang, the La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. Reports of a recent gang-related

INDYEASTEND.COM|BY LISA FINN

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  Cheryl Lynne Gebbia-Oropal Interesting, Baldwin, Nassau County, New York-the place where Joe briefly lived before Bay Shore, LI, NY and then Bridgeport; where Linda attended HS and I was born....." It's da Hood now?" It's still nice, though; HEMPSTEAD is 100% a hood-like the worst of Hartford, Bpt. and New Haven-worse.

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• " Gangsta Island, NY". NO SHIT? "In Southampton, Nancy Lynott, who organizes yearly gang awareness seminars in Riverhead, said a recent teen assessment program survey indicated that nine percent of respondents identified themselves as gang involved. Respondents were 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students in Southampton Town."

   — feeling curious. ( East End Independent)