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✓ Published: 11-Jan-2012
✓ Published: 11-Jan-2012
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8 Million Stories, a series of short video portraits of New Yorkers. Enjoy!nnBorn in 1952 in Puerto Rico, Benjamin “Yellow Benjy” Melendez spent his younger years in downtown Manhattan before moving with his family to the South Bronx. Despite growing up in a strict household where Judaism was practiced in secret, Benjy joined his first gang at an early age. nnAs a natural born leader Benjy founded his own gang, the Ghetto Brothers. Ultimately Benjy became one of the most powerful gang leader
8 Million Stories, a series of short video portraits of New Yorkers. Enjoy!nnBorn in 1952 in Puerto Rico, Benjamin “Yellow Benjy” Melendez spent his younger years in downtown Manhattan before moving with his family to the South Bronx. Despite growing up in a strict household where Judaism was practiced in secret, Benjy joined his first gang at an early age. nnAs a natural born leader Benjy founded his own gang, the Ghetto Brothers. Ultimately Benjy became one of the most powerful gang leader
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