It marks the first targeted killing of a Mafia boss in the city since the death of the then ... is organised crime in New York once more on the rise? "It's quite unheard of in New York," Oxford ...
Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighbourhood where the mob had huge influence. He speaks on how he ended up being an associate with the Gambino family through John Gotti Jr.
currently the only one in New York City. Bloomberg Notorious gangster Al Capone intervened in Red Hook after his contraband booze trucks were being taxed by a rival mafia member. Bettmann Archive ...
Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighborhood where the mob had a huge influence. He speaks on how he ended up being an associate with the Gambino family through John Gotti Jr.
Among the five boroughs of New York City, Red Hook had the worst percentage ... wrote in ‘Red Hook – Brooklyn Mafia, Ground Zero' (Citadel), which he has co-authored with Michael Benson.
Organized crime families owned the majority of the city's gay bars and clubs ... Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise ...
For the next 32 years, Morgenthau served as New York's top prosecutor. When he was first elected in 1975, the city was in the midst ... corruption and the mafia, and hired dozens of accountants ...
the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street was a typical New York City Mafia-run bar: patrons drank over-priced, watered-down, and often bootlegged liquor; there was no running water; and the bar ...