This is a straight rip-off from Bill Feather's blog, which I will quote in full as it speaks directly to concerns of this thread . . . .

"A Sicilian-Calabrian conflict in South Brooklyn, over control of the territory formerly dominated by Frankie Yale."

Yale, real name Ioele and a Calabrian, controlled the local docks until his murder in July 1928. There followed the murder of Michele Abbatemarco, a close Yale associate, as Salvatore D’Aquila, the NYC Mafia Boss, attempted to claim the territory for the Sicilians. Four days later D’Aquila was killed, possibly by Yale loyalists supported by Joseph Masseria. The area remained volatile, with Calabrians like Johnny Giustra, Carmelo Liconti and Albert Anastasia active on the docks. Among the Sicilians Giuseppe Peraino, AKA the Clutching Hand, controlled President street in the Red Hook district, and Joseph Profaci was a rising force in the Bay Ridge area. These last two were members of a faction led by Salvatore DiBella, which evolved into the future Colombo Family.

In March 1930 Peraino reportedly attended a meeting in Brooklyn, called to broker a solution. It seems to have been a failure, as Peraino was killed the same day. Arrested for the murder was Joseph Florino, a Calabrian and close associate of Albert Anastasia, with whom he had spent several months on “Death Row”. At this point Profaci may have assumed control of the local Sicilian group. Several killings followed throughout the rest of 1930, including 4 in May. Anastasia was a suspect in the June murder of Carlo Bonacurso. An ex-Yale associate Giuseppe Micello was murdered in July, followed by another, Michael Pietro, in August. In the Pietro incident, Ernest [Hoppy] Rossi was wounded.

The carnage resumed in October when first Carmine Peraino, son of the “Clutch Hand”, was murdered. According to an informant called Sardini, the murder was committed by Profaci members at the request of Manfredi Mineo, a successor to Salvatore D’Aquila. On the 18th Giovanni Anselmo, a Sicilian and ex-associate of Giuseppe Peraino, was killed in Brooklyn. Revenge followed on the last day of the month as Nicholas Candido, a Calabrian was murdered. December brought an attempt on Cassandros [Tony the Chief] Bonasera, one of the men suspected in the Carmine Peraino murder and a known Profaci follower.

The new year [1931] started with an unsuccessful attempt to kill John Oddo, friend of Bonasera and future Profaci Capo. Both Bonasera and Oddo were wounded, but these incidents have never been claimed to be a part of the Masseria-Maranzano conflict. In fact Joseph Bonanno claims Profaci’s group was neutral during that conflict. In April Ernest [Hoppy] Rossi, the old Yale associate and survivor of the Pietro shooting, was killed. This was four days after Joe [the Boss] Masseria’s murder, and police thought it was connected. After Masseria’s death a truce was called in the “Castellammarese War “, and held until September.
During this period attempts were made to broker a peace deal between the Sicilian and Calabrian factions. Anastasia seems to have accepted a position in the new set-up, but at the price of betraying his old associates. Carmelo Liconti and John Giustra, fellow Calabrians, may have opposed the settlement. On their way to a meeting in Manhattan the pair had a puncture, and Liconti sent Giustra on to the meeting place whilst he stayed with the car. The meeting was a trap, and Giustra was killed on arrival there. Liconti booked himself into hospital, and sought to discover who had set him up. It seems he did not learn his lesson as two months later, in July, he attended another supposed meeting in a NYC hotel. The next morning his body was found stabbed in a hotel room. Anastasia took-over Giustra’s dock rackets, in association with Vincent Mangano. There remained one last loose end to clear-up, Peter Leone a brother-in-law of “Clutch Hand “ Peraino was killed 10 days later.

It must be remembered that all of the killings since April 1931 had occurred during the truce period in the “ Castellammarese War”. To understand the confusing reasons behind this series of murders it is important to look at its aftermath.

Anastasia and his Calabrian followers entered the old D’Aquila Family, soon to be headed by Vincent Mangano. He controlled the ILA Locals formerly under Giustra, and the Mangano Family took-over Liconti’s Coney Island territory. Meanwhile the Profaci Family retained a foothold on the docks, and absorbed several ex-Yale associates. Abbatemarco and Peraino relatives joined Profaci as Anastasia continued to be hostile to them.

In support of this interpretation, as well as my own research, I offer the following souces.

Dave Critchley on page 163 of his book The Origin of Organized Crime in America explains how some of Yale’s old group joined Masseria’s faction, while others went with Profaci. This split seemed to go along ethnic lines.
Anthony Carfano, Joe Adonis, Frank Galluccio, ect. all Neapolitans allied to Masseria, known to accept non-Sicilians into his Family. Sicilians like Peraino and his followers answered to D’Aquila’s successor, as NYC Mafia head. The exception to this being Frank Abbatemarco from Salerno, although he was related by marriage to the Fontana brothers, Sicilians and Profaci members.While as we have seen, the Calabrians remained independent and enemies of the Peraino-Profaci group.

In Alan Block’s book East Side / West Side he provides a list of Anastasia’s victims, including Peraino, Bonacurso, Barbieri, Martura and Simonelli. The source for this was Abe Reles. [Page 107]. On page 254 of the same book Seymour Magoon, a Jewish associate of Anastasia, states that Anastasia told him that he was an enemy of Harry Fontana. As previously shown, Fontana was a cousin of Michele and Frank Abbatemarco, and both he and Frank were future Profaci Capo’s.

Finally there was an article in the Los Angeles Times [13th June 1982] which stated that Anthony Peraino, son of Giuseppe “ Clutch Hand” and brother of Carmine, was ordered out of NYC by Anastasia. He only returned to Brooklyn after Anastasia’s murder in 1957. Anthony and his brother Joseph were members of the Profaci Family. Proof that Anastasia feared revenge as the man responsible for their father’s death.