Lifelong Brooklynite Frank Dimatteo had a front-row seat to some of the most violent times in Red Hook's history. Growing up ...

for Frank Dimatteo that meant the Mafia. Frank DiMatteo reveals the hardscrabble history of the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn in his new book. Annie Wermiel/NY Post “When I was a kid ...

the only life path I could envision,” he and co-author Michael Benson write in ‘Red Hook – Brooklyn Mafia, Ground Zero’ ...

wrote in ‘Red Hook – Brooklyn Mafia, Ground Zero' (Citadel), which he has co-authored with Michael Benson. Shockingly, Dimatteo mentioned that he witnessed his first mob murder when he was ...

The indictments also outline an obsession with respect among some mafia members. In one particularly violent episode from September, alleged Staten Island Gambino captain Joseph "Joe Brooklyn ...

The Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse in downtown Brooklyn. (AIA Guide to NYC via Wikipedia) BROOKLYN (CN) — Ten suspected members of the Gambino organized crime family and affiliates of the ...

Persico was born in Brooklyn in 1933, the son of a law firm ... Extortion and omerta: The mafia where it all began What happened to crime in New York City? He advanced in the Colombo organisation ...