New York City Breakers

The New York City Breakers (NYCB) is a breakdancing crew and hip-hop group that was established in the Bronx borough of New York City. They were originally known as the "Floormaster Crew".

The New York City Breakers are a breaking crew from the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, originally known as the Floor Masters, the New York City Breakers rivaled the popularity of the Rock Steady Crew. Michael Holman, an up and coming filmmaker who promoted Hip-Hop parties at a night club called Negril, grew bored of watching the same breaking crew dance and wanted to host a Breaking Battle. The Floormaster Crew accepted an invitation in 1982 offering to battle the Rock Steady Crew at club Negril. The Floormaster crew combined footwork, style and power, Micheal Holman saw the crews athleticism and signed on to be their manager. Holman then took the some of the Breakers from the Floormaster crew (Action, Kid Nice, Glide Master & Powerful Pexster) then recruited the legendary B-Boy Lil Lep from the 7 Deadly Sins, and with the help of writer "Phase II" renamed the group the New York City Breakers.

Holman worked with Chino Lopez, the leader of The Floor Masters, and visionary himself, on finding and recruiting new members to build The New York City Breakers. Unfortunately the other b-boys from the Floormaster crew were not asked to be apart of the New York City Breakers. The original five members were: Action, Kid Nice, Glide Master, Powerful Pexster and Lil Lep. Holman then added Flip Rock, Mr. Wave, Icey Ice and Lil Alex. The New York City Breakers became one of the most famous and influential B-Boy Crews in the world.

The first performance as the NYCBs was on the nationally televised show called The Merv Griffin Show. Soon after, the NYCBs began appearing on everything from Soul Train, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, P.M. Magazine, CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Amnesty International Gala, That's Incredible!, and NBC's Salute to the Olympics just to name a few. Sixteen Candles, Beat Street, The Freshest Kids, and are some of the noteworthy feature films they appeared in as well a cameo in Body Rock.

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