When you think of Little Italy the first thing that probably pops into your mind is New York's iconic Little Italy and a plate ... of dealings with the mob and confrontations between the mafia and ...

Pete DiGravio was known as the “mayor of Little Italy” but somebody wanted him dead. His 1968 murder is widely thought of as a mob hit, executed by a professional hit man. It happened on the 16th tee ...

"It's quite unheard of in New York," Oxford University professor of criminology Federico Varese tells the BBC. "It's a very significant event and shows that the Italian-American Mafia is still ...

Among the Five Families that have run New York's Italian-American Mafia since 1931, the Gambino and Genovese groups have had the most success recruiting in Italy over the past 15 years ...