Discover why Red Hook was such a fun place to grow up in the 1960s and '70s (especially when your dad is a gangster) Uncover the history of the White Hand and the hapless police who tried to keep up ...

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player and nearly three dozen others in a betting scandal ...

A former shoemaker pleaded guilty Tuesday to allegations that he ran an illegal gambling operation for the Mafia out of his shop in Brooklyn. Salvatore Rubino, also known as “Sal the Shoemaker,” ...

The leader of the Gorilla Stone Mafia, who referred to himself as “the reaper,” was convicted of two Staten Island murders and drug trafficking on Tuesday and will now spend life behind bars. A ...

Red Hook is best known to today’s New Yorkers for the blue and yellow glow of its IKEA store, pulling in urban furniture shoppers from all five boroughs. But the hardscrabble dock area has played a ...

A group of hotheaded Gambino mobsters fantasized about acting like samurai warriors and celebrated with champagne as they ran a string of violent extortion schemes, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn ...

When it comes to Las Vegas’ mobster roots, most local historians go back to one point in time and two people in particular. Back in 1940, Brooklyn, New York mobster Bugsy Siegel had come to town from ...