Big difference between 101st avenue and pleasant avenue.
Of course there was a difference. East Harlem was Ground Zero. And by the seventies, 101st was a much nicer and residential area. But that doesn't change the fact that there were Gotti crew members dealing out of those storefronts. And I find it impossible to believe that he wasn't aware of it and that he didn't get his cut.
I just meant the pleasant avenue guys were the major league while 101st were the minors.
Pleasant avenue had the biggest/ heaviest dealers in the city.
No doubt. Like I said, Ground Zero. Especially the Genovese and Lucchese families. Galante came out of the neighborhood, so you had a small Bonanno presence. And you never hear much about the Gambinos in East Harlem but they were there. Tony Baker had his club right by Andy's Colonial, and Braciole inherited that crew before moving it up to the Bronx.
