But the hardscrabble dock area has played a pivotal part in Brooklyn ... “The Italian takeover of the piers was inevitable.” DiMatteo has written numerous books on the mafia and crime ...

Co-authors of Red Hook: Brooklyn Mafia Ground Zero ... You'll learn about The White Hand, the Irish mob, the Black Hand (the Italian mob), the Anastasio years, and the days when an upstart ...

In their latest book, Red Hook: Brooklyn Mafia Ground Zero ... and the Black Hand (Italian mob), and the geographic and psychological reasons why the isolated Brooklyn neighborhood was a hotbed ...

Nearly a century after his death, an NYPD detective is being remembered and honored for his gallant service to the city.

Anthony Vachris commanded the Brooklyn unit of the Italian Squad and later ... on the way to morphing into an American Mafia that would do much to corrupt business, labor and politics — and ...

The defendants in Brooklyn federal ... a coordinated operation with Italian law enforcement, who arrested the six defendants in Italy on charges that include mafia association and related offenses.

Italian police said the suspects arrested there were charged with mafia association and other related crimes. The U.S.-based defendants included Joseph Lanni, also known as "Joe Brooklyn," and ...

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