There was actually a time when being a "Bushwick Bonanno" meant living there too. That whole Bushwick/Lower Ridgewood area was Bonanno territory going back before I was born.
Remember the Troutman Street ambush? Cypress Gardens massacre?
I'm guessing that Catalano lived in that part of Ridgewood or Bushwick when he came as an immigrant then moved to Middle Village which is an extension of that area.
So many Italians lived in those old tenements before working their way up to Maspeth or Middle Village or wherever.
You´re probably right Vinny.
There might have been a few non Bonanno members operating in the Bushwick area but it was mainly a Bonanno stronghold for many, many years.
In the 1970s, and early 1980s, the so called "zips" mostly hung out on Knickerbocker between Myrtle and Flushing, a flourishing "Sicilian" area at that time.
Vinny, how about the area today? Is it still "Sicilian"?
