Yes I understand that. But what I'm trying to put across is for such a small state and territory to begin with, Connecticut should have had only ONE resident borgata just the way Zerilli had all of Michigan, Trafficante had most of Florida with the exception of South Florida which was always "open territory", Marcello had all of Louisisana, Patriarca had virtually ALL of New England (EXCEPT CT), etc.

If you've got a gigantic state or territory with adjoining crews licking at your heals I can understand an overlap. But little CT? Lol..... IMO, no reason for it!

Except maybe that because the NYC crews were so strong the NE crew couldn't keep em out, ya know?

If you really think about it, essentially Connecticut was an "open state" although never technically declared that.

Las Vegas and Miami were always recognized as "open cities"...Connecticut was never called that. But in reality that was exactly what it was!!