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How one Brooklyn neighborhood became instrumental in the rise of the New York Mafia: ‘Everyone paid. Those who didn’t were offed’
For so long Red Hook was one of Brooklyn’s most stigmatized neighborhoods ... “In later years, there was cooperation between Italian and Irish mobs, but at the turn of the twentieth century, ...
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Playwright shares her childhood story growing up the only Native American in an Italian Brooklyn nabe
“The whole neighborhood was Italian,” she explained ... “My family migrated to New York City in the 1800s, when Brooklyn was considered the country,” she said. Her mother still lives ...