“The Italian takeover of the piers was inevitable.” DiMatteo has written numerous books on the mafia and crime in New York. He said he wanted to be a gangster for as long as he could remembe ...

"It's quite unheard of in New York," Oxford University professor of criminology Federico Varese tells the BBC. "It's a very significant event and shows that the Italian-American Mafia is still ...

The reputed "heir apparent" to a New York City Mafia family doesn't want to be promoted ... But he ended up being charged in ...

Businesses that remained open were frequently raided by the police. Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise shunned gay ...