The westies were a crazy bunch, no doubt, but especially back in that time, the families could have destroyed them if they really had to, but it was easier and better to find a peaceful agreement.
When the Jacobi center must be built in the 1970s the building was in the westies territory but the Genoveses wanted the money and the westies declared war but lost it after spillane and his men was whacked.The only reason why the gambinos but especially castellano want to made a deal with westies was that was better to use them as killers and take a part of the money that the irish would make using the gambino name.
