Bulger was not only a Bostonian mob boss, but an FBI informant who spent much of his time on the run from the feds. He would have been the top dog of the Most Wanted list, had it not been for a certain chap known as Osama bin Laden. After years underground, he was caught in 2011 at the age of 81, proving the adroit capabilities of modern crime investigators to capture octogenarians. Mafia Aliases a b "NYPD – 25th Precinct". www.nyc.gov. New York City Police Department . Retrieved October 3, 2016.

Lucas was a hands-on drug dealer. He would dress up like a bum and sit in an old beat-up car by his drug corners to make sure his product—a potent brand of heroin with the street name Blue Magic—was getting sold and that no one was stealing from him. Responsible for much of this bloodshed were the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits, fierce rivals because the former's nativists hated no one more than the latter's newly-arrived Irish immigrants. In addition to the Irish, the Bowery Boys despised all immigrant communities who they believed were taking their jobs and threatening their livelihoods. Costello was only wounded, but he got the message, and retired as boss. He died of natural causes in 1973. Herbert Asbury. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. The Bronx has always received the most attention, being considered as the roughest borough, especially since gentrification is occurring in both Brooklyn and Harlem. Despite this, many hoods in the Bronx have remained intact and are not experiencing as much gentrification as other places of New York City. As a result, there are several New York City gangs and hoods located in different regions throughout the Bronx, including the South Bronx, East Bronx, and Uptown’s North Bronx region. New York City Hoods: Manhattana b Hunter, Stephen (27 August 1997). " 'HOODLUM' AIMS HIGH IF NOT ALWAYS TRUE". The Washington Post . Retrieved 5 April 2018. The Duke also had a hand in the Cotton Club later relaxing its segregation policy — even if only slightly. Conley, Kristan (March 7, 2011). "Untouchable Bronx hitman faces life in jail after '40 murders' ". New York Post. A few key individuals during the times of the 1980s and 1990s include the Harlem kingpins of A. Faison, Rich Porter, Gangster Lou, Unique, Fritz, Ms. Tee, Chiles, Shue, and many others. Following the kingpin era, the streets saw crews that would hustle together with the likes of 112th Street No Fear, Same Gang, Red Top Crew, Yellow Top Crew, 139th and Lenox’s NFL Crew, 142nd Street Lynch (Simms brothers), and others.

A high school dropout, Johnson worked odd jobs and hung around an unsavory crowd, which brought him to the attention of gangster William “Bub” Hewlett. Through Hewlett, Johnson became a highly regarded bodyguard for high-rolling illegal gamblers in Harlem.

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As his wife noted, he was known to lecture younger generations about studying academics instead of crime — although he “always maintained a sense of humor about his brushes with the law.” However, the slums that birthed this era of New York gangs started to slowly turn a corner after photographer Jacob Riis laid their desolation bare in his famous 1890 book How The Other Half Lives, which exposed the living conditions in the city's worst areas like never before. The book ultimately helped prompt city officials to institute reforms intended to rid New York City of the "hot-bed of infamy" that areas like the Five Points had become due to decades of neglect. In 1964, following the murder of three civil rights workers – James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner – in what became known as "Mississippi Burning case," the FBI was under mounting pressure to find the bodies. While this account has since been challenged, the widely-told version of events is that the FBI decided to fly Scarpa from Brooklyn to rural Mississippi to assist with the case, and Scarpa promptly got to work: He kidnapped a local Klansman, tortured him for information, and then informed the FBI where to find the bodies. Being an enforcer for the Colombos during a violent civil war within the family, and at the same time a well-paid informant for the government, was a dangerous game, but Scarpa survived an assassination attempt. In the song " Ghetto Qu'ran" rapper 50 Cent mentions several drug dealing figures in his neighborhood, including the notorious Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff. It is believed that this song led to the murder of Jam Master Jay and the shooting of 50 Cent himself. His funeral was attended by hundreds of mourners, and Rev. John J. Johnson noted that Bumpy was “… not a coward and he never betrayed a friend. He had good manners and was generous to a fault. He decided early in life not to be a clown, a flunky, or a beggar… Maybe there was no other way for him to be a man…”

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Liborio "Barney" Bellomo took over the crew in the early 1980s, operating in Harlem and the Bronx. In the early 1990s, Bellomo was promoted to street boss for imprisoned boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante. On July 27, 1992, former capo Anthony Salerno died in prison. Bellomo was imprisoned, and various acting leaders such as Frank "Farby" Serpico and Ernest "Ernie" Muscarella controlled the crew. The bride of one Lester Gillis, Ms. Wawrzyniak became Mrs. Baby Face Nelson. A smart and cunning accomplice, rather than commit her crimes in the open, she would help facilitate the damage wreaked by her trigger-happy husband, and harbored him after many of his gruesome shootouts, giving her the rank of Ultimate Moll. Benjamin Siegel View in gallery She told me how this nice older man came by and that he was a friend of my brother, Jimmy, and any sister of Jimmy was a friend of his. He introduced himself as Ellsworth. My sister told him she that she got the job because the federal government hired her in an initiative to get more teachers into inner-city schools. Johnson told her that he too had also worked for the federal government for many years. She asked what did he do and he laughed and told her he was a guest at many federal prisons for far too many years.”