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Due in large part to its steadily high population and rich history, New York City has played host to various criminal organizations, gangs, mafias, and syndicates. The following is a list of these groups, past and present.
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]
At the Mafia's peak, there were at least 26 cities around the United States with Cosa Nostra families, with many more offshoots and associates in other cities. There are five main New York City Mafia families, known as the Five Families: the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno, and Colombo families. The Italian-American Mafia has long ...
Former gangs in New York City (5 C, 73 P) F. Five Families (7 C, 7 P) N. Nine Trey Gangsters (4 P) Pages in category "Gangs in New York City"
In New York, TDA recruiters worked city shelters to enlist new members, many of them strong-armed into joining their ranks under the threat of having their families targeted by the gang.
The Bonanno crime family (pronounced ) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City as part of the criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
Gang members of New York City (4 C, 40 P) Pages in category "Gangsters from New York City" The following 157 pages are in this category, out of 157 total.
As other gangs formed in New York, they acknowledged Morello as their boss of bosses. [17] In 1906, D'Aquila's name first appeared on police records for running a confidence scam. [citation needed] In 1910, Giuseppe Morello and Ignazio Lupo were sentenced to 30 years in prison for counterfeiting. With the Morello family weakened, D'Aquila used ...