That's true to an extent. The Patriarca family is the New England family based in both Providence and Boston, but generally its a smaller family so they usually work with one of the New York families. When Patriarca sr was boss, he had strong ties to both the Genovese and Colombo families. The ties with the Genovese family is how they worked out that the Connecticut river would separate the New York families and the Patriarca family. They also decided that the Genoveses would control Hartford, Springfield and Albany while Patriarca controlled Boston, Worcester and all of Maine. The most recent "boss" for the New England family was shaking down strip clubs in Rhode Island with members of the Gambino family back in 2010, so its kind of a mutual thing.