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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.
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]
Ralph Daniello (born Alfonso Pepe; 1886 – August 15, 1925), also known as "The Barber" was an Italian-born New York criminal who belonged to the Brooklyn Navy Street Gang and participated in a major gang slaying in the Mafia-Camorra War.
The D'Aquila crime family (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːkwila]) was one of the earliest crime families to be established in the United States and New York City.The D'Aquilas were based in Manhattan's Little Italy, originally a crew of the Morello family prior to breaking off and absorbing what was left of the Neapolitan Camorra of Brooklyn. [1]
Camorra in New York Giosuè Gallucci ( Italian pronunciation: [dʒozuˈɛ ɡɡalˈluttʃi] ; December 10, 1864 – May 21, 1915), also known as Luccariello , was a crime boss of Italian Harlem in New York City affiliated with the Camorra .
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.
Antonio Paretti (1892 - February 17, 1927), also known as Tony Paretti or Tony the Shoemaker, was a Camorra gangster. He was a member of the Brooklyn-based Coney Island gang in New York City, serving as the right-hand man of Pellegrino Morano.