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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.
Boriello grew up in South Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by mobsters from the Gambino, Genovese, and Colombo crime families. His younger brother Stevie was a close friend of neighborhood gangsters Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Albert Gallo and Frank Illiano, and after Joey's murder, Stevie was instrumental in securing the crew's South Brooklyn ...
Salvatore Frank Ruggiero Sr. (pronounced roo-JEH-roh; July 20, 1945 – May 6, 1982), also known as "Sal the Sphinx", "Sal Quack Quack" and "Sally", was an American mobster, drug trafficker and Gambino crime family mob associate who was the younger brother of Angelo Ruggiero and ringleader of "The Pleasant Avenue Connection" which was a precursor to the Pizza Connection drug smuggling operation.
For so long Red Hook was one of Brooklyn’s most stigmatized neighborhoods, dominated by crime and extreme violence. In the early twentieth century, for instance, Red Hook’s docks were ...
Santo Trafficante Jr. (November 15, 1914 – March 17, 1987) was among the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States. He headed the Trafficante crime family from 1954 to 1987 and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante Sr.
Brooklyn District Attorney Aaron Koota protested the use of the Gallo brothers, but New York Mayor John V. Lindsay defended the Youth Board's actions. [9] On October 24, 1967, Albert Gallo was indicted on charges related to a ticket cashing racket at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, New York. [10] On May 16, 1968, Larry Gallo died of cancer. [11]
A trio of gangs formed a strategic alliance and took part in more than a dozen shootings and four killings, the Brooklyn district attorney charged Tuesday, announcing the arrest of 17 people. One ...
They're called the Wolfpack, the six Angulo brothers whose father locked them in a New York City apartment for 14 years. After becoming the subject of an award-winning documentary, they're finally ...