The families were based in Brooklyn which is one reason they had such a strong relationship. The difference is the Colombo's territory was ONLY Brooklyn basically. Sure they had a fairly strong queens crew, branched out into South Florida,Jersey ,L.I, and S.I a bit, but their territory was Brooklyn. Bonannos had Bronx crews, Jersey Crew, manhattan guys in Little Italy and LES. Big crew up in Montreal, a South Florida crew, an Arizona crew, made inroads into California.