Miami Hoods
Map and Tour of Miami Gangs and Hood Areas
Take a tour through the streets of Dade County and view the top and most notable Miami hoods, home to local cliques and at times Miami gangs. This includes the citywide GKode and GDub alliances, from Liberty City to Miami Gardens, a few Blood and Crip affiliations, and several homegrown and nationwide Latino gangs.
This map offers a comprehensive overview of Miami’s diverse neighborhoods, illustrating both African American and Latino communities, ranging from the Uptown region of Northwest Miami to the down south areas of South Dade County, and extending from Exit 1’s Florida City to Miami Gardens old Carol City area.
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Breakdown of Miami Hoods
This map provides a glimpse into the streets and street life of Miami. It showcases several neighborhoods from Miami Gardens, previously known as Carol City, to the Pork N Beans in Liberty City and Swamp City in Overtown, all of which are prominent areas of Northwest Miami. In between these areas are communities such as Lil’ Haiti, NMB (North Miami Beach), Robin Hood (West Little River), and Opa-Locka.
Bordering those areas are Miami’s large Latino and Cuban hoods, Hialeah, Allapattah, and Little Havana. While these neighborhoods were much more active during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, there has always been a large presence of Latino Miami gangs, whether homegrown gangs or Chicago affiliations that migrated into the area.
Traveling further south is section known as down south, which is often viewed as Miami hoods south of the city of Kendall. This section of Dade County is home to various neighborhoods of black and Latino Miami gangs in places like Perrine, South Miami Heights, Florida City, Homestead, Goulds, Richmond Heights, Naranja, and Leisure City.
Allahpattah at that time was run by a fearsome ex con named Bird Dog. He built a crew of like 50 that ran down the soft local gangs. Most flipped or dropped the flags. BD got violated and they fell off around late 2000’s
Never heard of bd down here
dadeland/kendall got random cliques now like SSB n KTS neva heard of
I remember the OBB (Orange Bowl Boys) in Little Havana, early 90s to 2000…Pájaro, Tuercas, Búho, Julio, Beykell, Boricua, Tío, Somalia, etc…their home base was 14ave & 2street…some are still around but grew old and don’t bang anymore, others were deported to Honduras & Nicaragua
Old school Spanish Emperor’s…Mr. Ed…Chief…. Charlie B….Jeff…Mighty Mike
there is a crip set that starts from the altos plaza publix and shares 3rd 4th and 5th sw street there are called the east side latino crips and rep blue and black
the east side latino crips are also at war wit the 53 blood set that hails from nw6th Terenc all the wat to nw 33rd ave
Cap
This map on the Latino section of gangs is completely wrong. Now, most / all of these gangs are inactive. Miami-Dade does not play around with organized gangs and they basically RICOed everyone but I’ll make a list. Most of these gangs have no longer been active since around 2011-2014 due to RICO acts throughout Miami. A lot of gangs saw the writing on the wall and members either aged out or quit being active altogether. 1980’s – mid to late 2000’s was the golden era of activity for the Latino gangs in Miami. There was a time where it didn’t matter what high school you went to in Hispanic neighborhoods, you heard or saw these gangs. The Hispanic gang culture in Miami is officially dead.
TNS ❤️💙 – Outlaws is the entire University Park Trailer Park on SW 8th Street and 127 Avenue. Last known active (2012)
International Posse 🤍💙 some chapters were Outlaws but some rode with Folks mobs –
SW 152nd Avenue between SW 56th Street Miller Drive to 88th Street Kendall Drive. Last known active (2012)
Former sets – Cutler Ridge around Southridge High School and Eureka active during the late 1980’s to early 2000’s
Homestead around the Naranja area – active during the late 1980’s to early 2000’s.
Latin Kings 👑 – The largest gang according to law enforcement on the street during the late 1980’s and in the Florida prison system. I’m not 100% sure if the LK’s in Miami branched off from Chicago nor the hood or the New York (King Blood) bloodline LK’s. If I had to guess, it was probably a mix.
Side note to this map* There is / was no such thing as West 24 Ave LK’s in Hialeah. There was no LK’s in Hialeah. There was one King who lived in Hialeah and claimed that during the AOL chat room days in the early 2000’s but he was just trolling the opps. Some might have lived there but they never claimed a hood there. Hialeah has always been known as 360 GD’s and West 24 GD’s back in the days (1980’s – early 1990’s) and YLO’s. Too many Folks gangs and opps for a set of LK in Hialeah.
Latin Kings 👑 – Little Havana / Riverside Park – Left side of the park was LK and the right side was YLO. Most active and dominant hood for LK since the 1980’s. They used to shoot at the YLO’s from across the park.
Shenandoah Park LK’s 👑
West End Park LK’s 👑
Kinloch Park LK 👑 Hood – 47 Avenue between NW 7th Street and SW 8th Street – Shared with the Latin Bad Boys ❤️🖤 – Another dominant set for the LK’s – This hood faded out in the early to mid 2000’s
West Flagler LK’s 👑- W Flagler Street SW 82nd Ave – Mall of the Americas to the west between 42nd Ave Lejeune Road to the east.
Sweetwater LK’s 👑 – Ronselli Park
Kendall Heights – Kendall – LK’s 👑 – SW 137 Avenue and SW 62nd Street (These hoods haven’t been active since 2011, LK’s in South Florida got hit with RICO)
Maniac Latin Disciple’s – 🔱🩵🖤 – Hialeah – W 68th Street and W 4th Ave – all of Amelia Earhart Park – There are no SGD’s in Miami. You got the map right except you need to highlight the entire park. The former GD’s / 74’s from Hialeah flipped to MLD in the early to mid 2000’s. There was an old Miami gangs website that claimed they branched off of The Twilight Zone – Humboldt Park – Rockwell & Potomac in Chicago
MLD’s 🔱🩵🖤 – Hialeah – Mango Hill
MLD’s 🔱🩵🖤 – 71 Street Miami Beach – Parkview Island – Parkview Park – (History is a little shaky on this set, these look like the old school Latin Disciples from the early 1980’s in Miami who suddenly started claiming MLD in the mid-2000’s but I don’t think they are linked to the MLD’s in Hialeah or linked to Chicago in anyway, I’m not sure what hood in Chicago the Latin Disciples in Miami from the 1980’s branched off either, a lot of the Latin Disciples in the 1980’s from 71 flipped to Latin Syndicate in the late 1980’s early 1990’s but these look like the hold outs who didn’t flip but weren’t actively banging either, they all look 45+ years old)
(Same thing, these hoods haven’t been active since 2011-2012, leadership aged out, retired but there was a PeeWee MLD arrested for shooting at the Big Dog Nation gang members in 2019 in Miami, you can google the article but definitely not organized or active like the early / mid 2000’s)
YLO (Young Latino Organization) 🖤🩶 – Basically all over Hialeah but the stronghold aka not even the opps could walk into these hoods were these two locations
Cambridge Apartments – Hialeah
Mango Hill – Hialeah
Little Havana YLO’s – Riverside Park (right side of the park) – Again, they used to shoot at the LK’s from across the park, both gangs responsible for giving that area of Little Havana the nickname “Little Vietnam”.
(Not active since 2012 or so, YLO was hit with RICO and a lot of members aged out. Don’t know if they were YLOD’s from Chicago but they claimed YLOG at one point, rode with Folks mobs and then dropped the G, became Outlaws but still friendly with Folks mobs due to beef with LK 👑 and LS 🩶🖤
Imperial Gangsters – 🩷🖤 (Yes, they are Folks but they do not throw up the forks, they throw up the Gangster Crown or G Crown which is a rounded 7 point crown) branched off of Franklin Park “The Jungle IG’s” in Chicago.
First hood but shut down since the early 2000’s
Ghost Side IG’s 🩷🖤- W 44th Pl and W 13th Lane – Hialeah
The original IG’s 🖤🩷 of Ghost Side were mostly former SGD’s 💙🖤🔱 but they got shut down for not having permission from Chicago (88th and Houston SGD’s) to start a set in Miami. Two former members of SGD’s flipped to IG (one of those being Magic, the south Florida leader of IG’s) while in Chicago for that meeting and one flipped to SD 💛🖤🔱
The Homacyde IG’s – 🩷🖤
Little Havana – W 4th Street & SW 22nd Ave
Allapattah – NW 29th Street and NW 17th Ave
Money 💰🩷🖤 Side IG’s – Broward County – Don’t know the hood they claimed
(Not active since 2011, hit with a major RICO charge that took out all the leadership, just type in Imperial Gangsters Miami and it’s the first article you see)
Side note**
There was a set of Imperial Gangsters in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s in Florida City, Leisure City and Homestead. Similar situation to the Latin Disciples of 71 and the YLO’s of Hialeah / Little Havana. No one knows when they got here from Chicago or from what hood but the Imperial Gangsters post 2000 had absolutely nothing to do with those IG’s.
The IG’s from Homestead colors weren’t pink and they aligned themselves with Latin Syndicates and TNS who against any mob who rode with Folks in the late 1980’s and early / mid 1990’s. Completely different from the original gang of IG’s in Chicago that been around since the 1960’s-1970’s.
Latin Syndicates 🖤🩶👑 – The fact that this map doesn’t have the biggest gang in Miami during its time – Outlaws but rode mostly with People Nation mobs – Westchester – SW 40th Street from Tropical Park to SW 107 Avenue
Kendall by Braddock Senior HS – SW 147 Avenue
West Flagler and 72nd Ave – Robert King High Park
Richmond Heights, Goulds, Homestead
Opalocka – The Triangle
71 Latin Syndicates – Miami Beach, Florida
Biggest gang in Miami throughout the 1990’s and early 2000’s. You couldn’t go to one corner of Miami without hearing about Latin Syndicate. According to Syndicate Level they started on Halloween Night 1989, former leader Level turned to Christ and it seems like the entire gang followed suit with him since 2012 according to his own admission about not being active. Haven’t heard much from them since they started 1219 / XII XIX Entertainment and were doing local gangster rap. Last active 2012.
Satan Disciple’s 💛🖤🔱 Folks – branched off of 18th and Oakley SD’s – Southside Chicago – Last active 2012-2014
Majority but not all of the Ghost Side IG’s 🩷🖤 flipped to SD 💛🖤 which were the original members. They recruited heavy but they had heavy turn over with constant members leaving including the original members throughout the early to late 2000’s. The original hood was W 24th Ave in Hialeah Gardens and a hood in Little Havana but that was short lived due to most original members leaving. The Little Havana hood was shut down by the IG’s 🩷🖤 once they restructured and this was the era when IG’s were throwing down the forks 🔱 heavy confusing most people because they claimed Folks but Miami gangs weren’t used to a Folks mob throwing down the forks. In Chicago, IG’s are Disciple Killers but outside of Chicago most Folks affiliated mobs unite.
Most of the Chicago folks mobs (MLDs, YLO, IGs, SDs and SCRs) united in Miami in mid to late 2000’s, you can actually find a picture of it somewhere on Reddit
Last known active hoods were
NW 199 Honeyhill Road – Trailer Parks in Miami Gardens (Devil’s Playground)
Hammocks Kendall
137 Ave between SW 8 street and Bird Road
– These were the major Hispanic gangs from the 1980’s to early mid 2000’s
– Other major gangs from the 1980’s that died out in the early 1990’s were
– Latin Force they used to claim Folks but there is no such thing as Latin Force in Chicago / a lot of the Latin Force flipped to YLO in Little Havana. A lot of gangs in Miami claimed / aligned themselves with Folks just because they beefed with LK’s
– Old Hoods – Little Havana / Riverside Park area / Shenandoah Park
– Vulkens or Vulkans
– South Beach Posse (15th Street was the Main Street but back in the late 1980’s and early 2000’s there was cheap hood apartments all throughout South Beach that was their hood) late 1980’s but died out in 1997 when they were RICO’d in 1997. Almost 80 members arrested including leadership. Some shorties tried to keep it alive in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s but the Syndicates / Miami Beach PD won that battle. Miami Beach High was a war zone between the 71 Latin Syndicate’s and South Beach Posse.
Smaller gangs –
Big Dog Nation 🩶🤍 – SW 112th Avenue – SW 137 Avenue between Bird Road and Coral Way – Westchester – Tamiami Park area – This is / was a peewee gang / crew for the Latin Syndicates by Big Dog Laz who was a Syndicate, looks like the peewee’s / shorties kept up with the Big Dog Nation and never joined Latin Syndicate. One of the newer generation homegrown Miami Hispanic gangs post mid 2010’s that seem like they are still somewhat active.
Southbound Thugs – 💚🖤 – Outlaws
BentTree Area – SW 137 Avenue between Bird Road and Miller Drive (They seem inactive since the late 2000’s)
Almighty Deranged Latins Nation 🧡🤎 – Sweetwater – W Flagler Street – Lil’ Abner Trailer Park – This gang seemed like it started as a direct personal attack against the IG’s 🩷🖤 – They seemed like they tried to copy the entire movement of the IG’s even calling themselves Almighty but they were against Folks, specifically the IG’s. Active mid 2007’s and died out around 2012-13.
10th Street Outlaws 🧡🖤- Shoma Homes – NW 132nd Ave and NW 10th Street – Died out early 2000’s
109 Ave – Sweetwater – Small gang but extremely tight knit died out early 2000’s – rode with People Nation mobs died out early 2000’s
67 Ave Mob ❤️🖤- SW 67 Ave between W Flagler and Coral Way – rode with Latin Syndicates and People Nation mobs died out early 2000’s
ACT (All Criminals Together) 💚🤍- Mall of the Americas, West Miami Middle School, Ruben Dario Middle School, Sweetwater – rode with People Nation mobs and LK’s 👑 Died out early 2000’s
Latin Bad Boys ❤️🖤 – 47th Ave – Kinloch Park – Mall of the America’s area of West Flagler – rode with people nation mobs aligned close to LK’s 👑 one member made the news for killing an IN/P near Coral Gables HS. Died out early 2000’s
Bird Road Boys – SW 67 Ave to SW 107 Ave specifically the Tropical Park Area and Bird Bowl – aligned with Latin Syndicates died out early to mid 2000’s.
Boys of Brickell – BOB – The Brickell area when it used to be a hood before it got gentrified with the new buildings. Died out late 1990’s / early 2000’s.
Almighty Latin Eagles 🦅 Folks 🩶🖤🤍
– 47 Ave / Kinloch Park – This set came around the mid 2000’s when the LK’s 👑 were pushed out of Kinloch Park, this set was aligned with the IG’s but was short lived and the leader of the Latin Eagles became a government witness who was later killed by the IG’s 🩷🖤
Simon City Royals 💙🖤 Folks
aligned with the IG’s 🩷🖤
Small set in Miami (I believe Cutler Ridge)
and Broward – Not much information but died out mid – late 2000’s
3 OP ❤️🖤 – Hialeah – The projects / apartments on W 68 St and W 6th Ave – They were the main opps to the old school 74 – GD’s 🖤💙 🔱 who flipped MLD 🖤🩵🔱 from W 68th and W 4th Ave. Died out mid 2000’s
CAP (Central American Posse) 🖤🤎 – East Hialeah along Palm Ave – Main opps to the YLO’s, GD’s now MLD’s in Hialeah. They were also against most predominantly Cuban gangs. Hardly spoke English. Most members were Central American youths who just arrived.
ESL – ❤️💙🤍 – East Side Loco’s – East Hialeah same neighborhood as CAP, they were the main opps of CAP, mostly recently arrived Cuban youths who spoke no English.
Vicious Latin Criminals – VLC – 🖤🤎 – Small gang Mall of the Americas / Ruben Dario / West Miami Middle School area died out early 2000’s.
Insane Spanish Cobra’s 🐍 💚🖤 Folks – don’t know what hood from Chicago
Small set around Coral Gables HS but short lived mid-2000’s
A lot of smaller gangs not named but if you lived or went to high school in Miami from the late 1980’s to the early 2000’s these were the gangs all over the news, tagged up all over high schools, neighborhoods, etc. basically the ones making noise.
Dam bro you know your s*** 💯
SBSBoys.
Can’t forget Latin Force… SBSB… Northwest Boys… SpanishEmperors… 12Nation… TKK… KGBs from Chicago… Latin Lovers… ETC
I remember Spanish Emperor’s….they were led by Mr. Ed, he was a golden gloves boxer at tropical park….Latin Force was led by FLY…also, remember TKK aka The Kinetic Kids..damn, I’m old..53..lol
Spot on. When the RICO act hit in 1996 a lot changed. You didn’t mention the hood gangs like 29st Hialeah, 152 & 154ave Kendall, 22ave Lil Havana-ish, 27ave North Miami etc
Ghost Town (74st 12-8ave) had some Kings in the projects and back behind HML.
Noteable mentions Lol: Brown Shadows, 12 Ave Boys, MCC, Hialeah Gangstas, INPs had a chapter (4 I think) by Badcock park.
Crazy you made me go back, back.
Carol city lynch Min first gang got swept up by Gang Unit bill O’Connor
Spanish Emperor’s..Kendall Folks..1985 to early 1990’s
Yes, led by Mr. Ed..also in that group was Mighty Mike…Chief…Jeff and Charlie B.
Yup, this sounds about right. Other smaller gangs/clicks in Carol City: MCC, 47 AVE BOYS, LYNCH MOB, JNYs
There’s also been a few cliques too around Fontainebleau
There was also cliques in sweetwater and medley I’m not sure about sweetwater anymore but there’s still in medley
Your missing south beach posse
probably more than 50 different sections in Richmond Heights.
Do you know any?
Or 40st
Or the bird road boys in Westchester
You can’t mention Kendall without mentioning Westchester them Bird Road Boyz 112ave Big Dog Nation 97ave TNS All Active back in the day and a modern day clique 40ST
Do you have any info updates on Allapattah, Little Havana, etc?
No not yet
More old school gangs 4rm Little Havana OBB Orange Bowl Boys, 12 Ave, Red Bloods but they werent locked in with real Blood sets, 3rd Street (SW) , 4th Street (SW), and 2nd Street Fellows (NW). 10th Avenue was crazy.
Jits in late 2000s started riding for East Littlr Havana verzuz West Little Havana
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