Within the last 25 years, I had and/or witnessed at least 4 encounters with either associates or Made men in Brooklyn and Queens that made me realize that the LCN was very real and if you opened your mouth the wrong way to the wrong person, you could have a very big problem to deal with, SERIOUSLY. In 2013 I witnessed a knife fight involving Preston Geritano's younger brother Benny on Smith St in Carroll Gardens with a local restaurateur, it was very bloody and both of them almost died. When I opened the Costco in Brooklyn in 1996, we were robbed by Gambino associate two weeks after we opened and they stole almost $700,000 at gunpoint. I got a couple of other stories that will make the hairs on your neck stand up too.