Armed with an iPhone, a microphone and a lifetime’s worth of connections with former cops and criminals, Michael Moy is racing to capture a piece of New York City’s forgotten history
. Moy operates a YouTube Channel called Chinatown Gang Stories, which he launched six months ago. The channel features lengthy, unvarnished interviews with former gangsters who share stories of life as members of the youth gangs that terrorized New York’s Chinatowns in the 1970s, 80s and early 90s.
allowed the federal government to severely punish those convicted of participating in a pattern of crimes with a common objective – essentially, gang activity. Moy thought harder about his own future with each friend who was killed or sent to prison. But the major impetus for change came from the story of Steven McDonald, a New York City police officer.
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