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| {{SHORTDESC:Williamsburg, Brooklyn street gang later associated with Bikers NY}}
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| {{Infobox criminal organization
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| | name = South 9 Bikers
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| | also_known_as = South 9th Bikers<br>South Ninth Bikers
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| | founding_location = Southside, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City
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| | territory = Broadway and the South Ninth Street area, Williamsburg
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| | structure = Neighborhood street gang and biker-style club; complete membership and hierarchy uncertain
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| | activities = Street fighting and inter-club conflict<br>Neighborhood club activity<br>Later motorcycle-club activity reported
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| | notable_members = Alicat {{small|(member from approximately 1980)}}<br>Snake {{small|(associated in later local remembrance)}}
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| | allies = [[Unknown Bikers]] {{small|(overlapping social connections reported)}}
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| | rivals = [[Dukes]]<br>[[Arabian Knights]]
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| | successor = [[Bikers]] {{small|(reported later identity; exact institutional continuity uncertain)}}
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| | status = Later identity reported as Bikers NY
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| | years_active = 1970s–early 1980s {{small|(documented phase; exact founding date uncertain)}}
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| The '''South 9 Bikers''', also called the '''South 9th Bikers''', were a Williamsburg, Brooklyn street gang and neighborhood club. A 2000s oral-history feature identifies the South 9 Bikers as a major Williamsburg club and places their turf around Broadway and South Ninth Street; it also records a member's movement from the Unknown Bikers to the South 9 Bikers in early 1980.<ref name="VICE">[https://www.vice.com/en/article/fashion-v13n10/ “Gangs of Old New York”], ''Vice'', oral-history feature.</ref>
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| Later local Williamsburg material describes Bikers NY as having originally been known as the South 9th Bikers and as having developed from a street gang into a motorcycle club.<ref name="BikersNY">[https://www.facebook.com/classicnystreetgangs/posts/rare-1980s1990s-photo-bikers-ny-mc-from-south-9th-bikers-to-williamsburg-brookly/1522809766405132/ “Bikers NY M.C.—From South 9th Bikers to Williamsburg Brooklyn Legends”], Classic NY Street Gangs.</ref> This is a reported continuity claim, not proof that the entire earlier group passed intact into a later organization.
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| ==Territory and relationships==
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| The oral-history account places the South 9 Bikers' territory around Broadway, extending from the beginning of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway near Havemeyer Street toward the area where the Hasidic community began. It places the Unknown Bikers on a different section of Southside Williamsburg and the Dukes farther east around Roebling Street and South Third Street.<ref name="VICE" /> These boundaries are a participant's recollection rather than an official map or complete contemporary survey.
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| The same account says that the Unknown Bikers and South 9 Bikers were already socially connected before Alicat spent more time with the South 9 group in early 1980.<ref name="VICE" /> Association and movement between clubs do not establish merger or subordination.
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| The South 9 Bikers were also described as being at war with the Dukes and Arabian Knights during a 1980 incident recounted in the oral history. The account includes disputed personal identification and responsibility; it should be cited as a recollection of inter-club conflict, not as an adjudicated roster or finding against every member.<ref name="VICE" />
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| ==Biker style and later development==
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| The oral history states that the South 9 Bikers looked to the Hells Angels as a model, made chopper-style bicycles and later motorcycles, and used a clubhouse on the Southside.<ref name="VICE" /> These details document the club's self-described biker style and social setting, but do not establish an official affiliation with the Hells Angels.
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| Later local history presents Bikers NY as the successor name or later form of the South 9 Bikers.<ref name="BikersNY" /> The exact transition date and organizational mechanics remain unresolved: the evidence could reflect continuity of personnel, a re-formation by former members, or a later club drawing on the South 9 identity.
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| ==Organizational limits==
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| This article covers the South 9 Bikers as a distinct Williamsburg street-club phase. It does not combine them with the [[Unknown Bikers]], [[Dukes]], [[Arabian Knights]] or later Bikers NY without a specific source establishing the relationship. No complete roster, formal hierarchy or uninterrupted institutional record has been located in the reviewed sources.
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| ==References==
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| <references />
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| [[Category:Former gangs in New York City]]
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| [[Category:Street gangs in Brooklyn]]
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| [[Category:Gangs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn]]
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| [[Category:Motorcycle clubs in New York City]]
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