I became interested in this again after reading about Vincent Papa's theft of the NYPD narcotics locker after the French Connection. He orchestrated this apparently with a lot of help from the Luchesse Long island crew (now headed by Joe Caridi). Also heard that the Luchesse's at that time had been centered around the five towns and Rockville Center, which makes sense, since they practically ran the airport at the time.

The Colombo had the graveyard in Farmingdale, which I knew about, but I never thought that they were so powerful out there. That's interesting as I thought they had isolated themselves in Dyker Heights and Gravesend. Any more info on this Tommy shots crew out there? Are they in Suffolk?

As for the Genovese, I knew Tino Fiumara had a house on the north shore but that was probably to keep himself insulated from the Jersey crew that he ran. Don't know much else about the westside out there.

Last edited by Flushing; 07/02/15 11:04 PM.