I would assume the Gambinos as well, but who knows anymore.

Last I paid attention I think Sonny Ciccone, Joe Juliano, Frank Cali, Carmine Sciandra and Lou Vallario.

1. Gambino
2. Bonanno
3. Genovese
4. Colombo
5. Lucchese

1. Gambino
2. Bonanno
3. Genovese
4. Colombo
5. Lucchese

Let's be serious..Really, what is left in Brooklyn..Nothing

bonannos number two? I know they have a lot of guys but they have idiots mostly. the genovese have baldie and tico and them, very powerful captainss.

it's not the 70s but its a big ass area. a lot of wiseguys still have operations there.

I agree Brooklyn is not really fertile ground for the mafia anymore. Half of Brooklyn is expensive as hell, full of young professionals who work in Manhattan. The other half is Carribean, African, Arab, Chinese, Mexican, Dominican, etc... Most of the people who have stayed in the old neighborhoods are 50 years old+. There are very few - if any - working class people moving to Brooklyn who aren't immigrants from one of the countries I listed above.

I'm not sure there are any Italian American working class neighborhoods in New York City besides on Staten Island. Brooklyn is completely different than it was just 15 years ago. So expensive I had to leave and move to Queens...

Why brooklyn became so expensive ? What really changed ??

Why brooklyn became so expensive ? What really changed ??

Spill over from Manhattan. Everybody works in Manhattan, but it became too expensive to live there so everybody looked for the next cheapest thing. So people start to move to all the neighborhoods around downtown and midtown Manhattan: the neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens by the water and Harlem in Manhattan.

But soon, even these neighborhoods become too expensive, so people start moving into the next neighborhood over, and the next, and the next... So that is why it's so expensive.

And these people are living in nice renovated apartments surrounded by fancy restaurants and shops. The opposite of how those neighborhoods were when the mafia thrived. Instead of fixing the neighborhoods, Italians, Jews (non-hasidic) and others just left for the suburbs. Many people blame this on "white-flight." Which is why you see most of these populations in Staten Island, Long Island, Westchester, New Jersey, etc...

My first house in Brooklyn was on east 37 near Flatbush Ave. paid around 40 thousand for a 2 family brick. Sold it decades ago. Has not been kept old iup. Sold for just under 600 thousand a few years. Next Marine park near Ave U 1 family sold it for 750 thousand 17 yrs ago. Bought in mill basin near the water for 1.8 million. Now if I want to sell it would go for 3.5 to 4 million maybe more. Yes Brooklyn is all fucked up now.

I'm not sure there are any Italian American working class neighborhoods in New York City besides on Staten Island. Brooklyn is completely different than it was just 15 years ago. So expensive I had to leave and move to Queens...