"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the ...

CENTURIES before La Cosa Nostra was heard of in the U.S., the Mafia operated—even as it does today—as a brigand government in much of Sicily. Though many Italian immigrants had come to the U.S. to ...

Thirty-two years later, when mob rat Joe Valachi grandly spilled his guts to Senate racketbusters and provided the first semi-clean insights into the history of organized crime in America, there was ...

On this day, Sept. 10, in 1931, Charles “Lucky” Luciano took over the New York crime world with an orchestrated series of hits, culminating with the murder of the “Boss of Bosses” Salvatore Maranzano.

Built in 1929 as the headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt’s New York Central Railroad Company, the Helmsley building (230 Park Avenue) straddles the avenue to the north of the railroad terminal.

Today in history: On this date in 1931, Salvatore Maranzano, a New York City crime boss, is shot and stabbed by four men for Charles "Lucky" Luciano. Luciano for a time lived at the Waldorf Astoria ...