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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. The purpose of the ...
New York mobster Thomas Gagliano, leader of the present day Lucchese crime family, goes into semi-retirement and leaves day-to-day activities of the Family to Acting Boss Thomas Lucchese. May 28 – Joe Adonis is convicted for gambling violations and sentenced to two years in New Jersey State Prison .
c. 1950s: Founders: Buffalo crime family: Founding location: Rochester, New York, United States: Years active: c. 1950s–1993 [1] Territory: Primarily the Rochester metropolitan area, with additional territory throughout Western New York: Ethnicity: Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates: Activities
The new Red Hook rulers called themselves la Mano Nera – the Black Hands – and it had no shortage of willing conscripts.. When local young men were sucked into the underworld, it was usually ...
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s and 50s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the Mafia and organized crime as a whole. [ 23 ]
Constenze "Stanley" Valenti (February 8, 1926 – February 23, 2001) was boss of the criminal organization known as the Rochester crime family in the 1950s. As the head of the organization he oversaw gambling , prostitution and extortion rackets operating in the city of Rochester, New York .
Attardi was born in Sicily in 1897 and allegedly joined the Sicilian Mafia before immigrating to New York in 1919. [289] He became a bootlegger and joined the D'Aquila gang during the 1920s – later evolved into the Gambino crime family. It is noted that Attardi was heavily involved in the narcotic trade from the 1930s to late 1940s.
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.