Michael franzese crew was based out of long island his father moved them out of brooklyn. I guess his russian gas guys would been more in bk. I remember his first book in the 90tys maybe he didnt want to talk about the brooklyn guys cause i dont remeber him mentioning any persico or any of there relatives . I mean he was letting sleeping dogs lay im assuming he been mentioning them alot in the last few videos hes made after carmine died