Originally Posted by Revis_Knicks
The New York Italian mafia started in Brooklyn and not Manhattan?


New Orleans, then Harlem.


"...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