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The Brooklyn Camorra or New York Camorra (NY Camorra) was a loose grouping of early-20th-century organized crime gangs that formed among Italian immigrants originating in Naples and the surrounding Campania region living in Greater New York, particularly in Brooklyn. [1]
The Mafia–Camorra War was a gang war in New York City that lasted from 1915–1917. On one side was the originally Sicilian Morello crime family of Manhattan; on the other were gangs originally from Naples and the surrounding Campania region, based in Navy Street in Brooklyn and Coney Island, referred to as the Camorra.
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1910–1928 – Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila – took over the Brooklyn Camorra in 1916 and merged with Al Mineo's gang forming the largest family in New York. He was killed on orders of boss Joe Masseria in 1928.
November 21 – Gelsomina Verde, a 21-year-old woman, tortured and killed in an effort to make her disclose the whereabouts of her former Camorra boyfriend. [6] March 27 – Annalisa Durante, a 14-year-old girl killed in the Forcella quarter of Naples, during a clash between two rival Camorra clans. [7]
Gangs in New York City (3 C, 45 P) Gangsters from New York City (1 C, 156 P) M. Mafia–Camorra War (9 P) Pages in category "Organized crime in New York City"
Nicolò Terranova (1890 – September 7, 1916), also known as Nicholas "Nick" Morello, was one of the first Italian-American organized crime figures in New York City.He succeeded Giuseppe Morello as boss of the then Morello Gang in 1909 and was succeeded by Vincenzo Terranova in 1916.
Salerno was a highly respected and feared gangster, and a well-known New York Mafia powerhouse who continued to rise through the ranks of the Genovese crime family becoming consigliere from 1972–75, underboss in 1975, and eventually the acting–front boss from 1981-86. In the late 1970s, the FBI managed to place a listening device in his ...