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 Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at and pelted with objects by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s ...

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 ...

BROOKLYN (CN) — A former Nassau County detective helped the Bonanno organized crime family take down rival gambling parlor and staged at least one fake police raid to scare them into shutting down, ...

Vincent “Vinny Unions” Ricciardo had arrived at the federal building in good time for his sentencing. But when people gathered in the Brooklyn courtroom to hear the judge’s pronouncement, there was an ...

“The Sopranos” may be coming to an end, but the mob isn’t going anywhere. HBO’s hit series rode to success by juxtaposing the emotional and financial demands of Tony Soprano’s two families. With ...

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