. Imagine not locking your door or taking a midnight walk around Brownswille, Brooklyn.
Brownsville. lol. Goodfellas, now? Do you have any source material on this topic other than movies?
It was never safe to walk around Brownsville, not even in the 1950's. The local gang would mug you. The wiseguys might pretend to confront the hoods on your behalf, then whack up the money with them as soon as you walk out of the room.
As your boy Sonny would say...Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Now that was one of the few realistic lines in those movies.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
