Nice blog. I love the Galante photo. It's always fun to go to Brooklyn and have a cup of coffee and Italian pastry in front of 205 Knickerbocker Ave.

Sometimes I see Russian Jews around Forest Hills and Rego Park with cryptic tattoos on their arms. Tattoos are forbidden by Jewish law. I figure these tattoos have some kind of significance with Russian Jewish mobsters.

As powerful as the Russian are said to be, it seems like they go to great lengths to avoid violence, because they don't have nearly as many shootings as other ethnic mobs.