of NYC have stayed independent.

ie when Skinny took over, he basically refused to meet with the Genovese granted Bobby Manna was in jail. But let’s just say when Scarfo was still running things, he kowtowed today NYC (and people were not only afraid of him but his ‘I’ll bring down a crew of guys from NY and kill all of youse’) truth is, I doubt the Genovese would have supplied him with anyone

And if they did it’ll just be few guys whereas that’s a few guys vs an entire crew in Philly

It’s more the fear factor. Just like when Tumac told Gas and Vic to go F himself- all they do is send 3 or 4 guys down. Hardly an entire family

But again it’s the fear that gets to people- and truth is, when you’re fighting outside of your area, they’re nothing. They would need a guide to show them around etc

No different to when Tony Bananas got killed- they’re hardly going to send a crew to North Jersey to kill him. If he would have stayed on his turf and armed with his guys, nobody is going to have an easy time getting him

Instead he had to be lured out of his hole. Another example could be when Vito told the Bonanno’s to F themselves too. Granted Vito was very powerful but as shown, he didn’t even need to answer to them to begin with. Yet for many yrs he did