Historically have Manhattan bosses, captains been more business oriented while Brooklyn bosses been more "blue collar"? I know these are sweeping generalizations and I don't believe one area is more "sophisticated" than the other. There's just more money in Manhattan, that's obvious, and I'm wondering if that made a difference in how the mobsters came up.
That’s a good question. Lucchese was known as the white collar don. I can’t think of any big white collars schemes he had right now though. But nonetheless the power base for the family was in Manhattan. Same with the Genovese who were more white collar. Castellano was white collar and he was taken out by the Brooklyn powers that be in the gambino family who were more blue collar oriented.
