Yes Mamaluke, I used to see them walking around Downtown Chinatown and even Flushing years ago, but they mostly kept to themselves and dealt with their own kind.

Amercian born people generally had little to fear from them. They preyed on the Chinese restaurants, fruit and vegetable stores, and other retail type businesses Chinese people ran that they extorted.

Manny of these young gangs worked for and at the behest of the Chinese Tong organizations; The Hip Sing, and On Leong, etc. These Chinese gangs were almost like the bush leagues for the larger, better established, older Tongs, the elders.