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South Brooklyn Boys. South Brooklyn Boys (abbreviated as SBB) was a famous New York City street gang. In the 1950s, various Italian-American gangs were formed in South Brooklyn, New York City, and came together under the moniker of "South Brooklyn Boys" sometime around the 1950s. The gang had a mostly Italian American membership.
Hoe Avenue peace meeting. The Hoe Avenue peace meeting was an important gathering of gangs that took place in the Bronx, New York City, on December 8, 1971. [1][2][3] It was called to propose a general truce and an unprecedented inter-gang alliance. The impetus for the meeting was the murder of "Black Benjie", a peace keeper of the Ghetto Brothers.
Velentzas Organization [13] and various other gangs in New York City, including their allies. The Gambino crime family (pronounced [ɡamˈbiːno]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
The Apalachin meeting. On November 14, 1957, the mafia bosses, their advisers and bodyguards, approximately one hundred men in all, met at Barbara's 53-acre (21 ha) estate in Apalachin, New York. Apalachin is a town located along the south shore of the Susquehanna River, near the Pennsylvania border and about 200 miles northwest of New York City.
Various gangs in New York City, including their allies. The Genovese crime family (pronounced [dʒenoˈveːze, -eːse]), also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the " Five Families " that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia.
The Brooklyn Thrill Killers were a group of teenage boys who were convicted of killing one man and accused of killing another (one by drowning, the other by beating) and committed acts of assault and torture against several other people in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City during the summer of 1954. [1][2] The case attracted considerable ...
Ray Argentina is a soldier in the Brooklyn faction.His younger brother Peter Argentina is an associate in the family. [1] In 1992, Argentina along with Louis Daidone, Alan Taglianetti and Robert Molinelli were found guilty in the $1.2 million robbery of an armored truck in Brooklyn in 1988.
Paul Kelly, founder of the Five Points Gang. A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch. The area of Manhattan where four streets – Anthony (now Worth), Cross (now Mosco), Orange (now Baxter), and Little Water (now nonexistent) – converged was known as the "Five Points". [2] Mulberry, notorious for slum tenements, was one street ...