Red Hook is best known to today’s New Yorkers for the blue and yellow glow of its IKEA store, pulling in urban furniture ...

This naturally attracts society’s underbelly, and as a youngster growing up there in the 60s, for Frank Dimatteo that meant the Mafia ... delinquency in New York City’s five boroughs.

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 ...

Angelo Figliomeni was at the center of a media storm when police brought organized crime and money laundering charges against ...

Jonathan Miller's acclaimed production of Verdi's Rigoletto is revived in fine style by the English National Opera.

Federico Trotti came to Orchard Park from his home in Milan, Italy ... Western New York during his trip. "Bills are just about love, it's universal," said Babiarz about why Bills Mafia is so ...

Two men - including a gangster with links to the LA "Bloods" street gang and several New York Mafia families - have ... girlfriend and Petrosillo". While little was documented of Petrosillo's ...

Lévy moved from Morocco to Paris as a teenager before his mother brought him to Hicksville, Long Island around 1970. He ...