Discover why Red Hook was such a fun place to grow up in the 1960s and '70s (especially when your dad is a gangster) Uncover the history of the White Hand and the hapless police who tried to keep up ...
How one Brooklyn neighborhood became instrumental in the rise of the New York Mafia: ‘Everyone paid’
Red Hook is best known to today’s New Yorkers for the blue and yellow glow of its IKEA store, pulling in urban furniture shoppers from all five boroughs. But the hardscrabble dock area has played a ...
Paul Moses’ gripping new book tells a story that begins in Sicily on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators soon ...
The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor ...
If you’re going up against the mob, you’d better have a gang. The New York Police Department put one together back in 1904. New immigrants, and new kinds of crime, were flooding the city and the old ...
The New York mafia is still kicking—and it may be more powerful than experts believed. Several members of New York City’s most prominent crime families were among the dozens of people arrested on ...
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