What borough, or section of NY would you say had the most Mafia members, from Dons to associates pre-1980?

East New York (Brooklyn)? The Bronx? Lower Manhattan?

I know you "diehard", "orthodox" New Yorkers gonna have a lot to say.

Not really .

I'm just fucking with you .

Welcome to the boards.

LOL..!!

Pre 1980? There's no question and I think we all know the answer!

125th and Lenox?

Brooklyn?! I'm just taking a wild ass guess!

Pre 1980, East Harlem hands down. No area even close.

Tony Salerno, Dominick Cirillo, Angelo Prisco, Danny Leo, Ducks Carallo, Liborio Bellomo, Trigger Coppola, Sammy Santora, Jimmy Alo, Tommy Lucchese, the list is a mile long

How so? People will say East Harlem is not even that big?

It's something in the water! It's not big but there were a 100K Italians living there for years. It's fairly documented who is from there.

Who, people from Baltimore?

Stick to crabcakes, why don't you?

LOL.. He said "stick to crabcakes." Smh.. Wow! That is all we are known for? Sad.. A lot of New Yorkers live in Baltimore.

I´d say Bronx and the Bensonhurst/Dyker Heights/Bath Beach area in Brooklyn.

A lot of wiseguys in East Harlem and Lower East Side (Manhattan) too. (Pre 1980 that is.)

A joke, pal. We like to break balls here, but only in good fun .

My New York friends say South Brooklyn?

We call them Baltimorons.

I know you're playing and I'm laughing...Lol

But it is sad though..

Without a doubt pre 1980 & till this day its the Bensonhurst/Dyker/Bath Beach/Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. ALL families are still represented and at that time you had Spero, Gravano, Persico, Scarpa, Faraci, etc all using the area as their main base of operations.

What is a Baltimoron? New Yorkers who move to Baltimore are "Baltimorons", or the locals?

I have a relative down there who was a lifelong NYer before moving there. Not to Baltimore though but Towson.

The Chesapeake Bay is my favorite place to go boating. I haven't been there in a few years but hopefully this summer i'll get down there and rent a boat for a couple weeks.

I think it's a very vague question but I'll point out tht historically Bensonhurst, BK had a significant presence from all five familys

I'm not too far from Towson, but closer towards the city near Loyola University and John Hopkins.

Almost everyone in Maryland has family, friends and associates in New York, or vice-a-verse. Yankees fans down here are deep!

How could have I framed it?

Definitely...yes.

As a matter of fact, I believe the Little Italy section (Manhattan), South Brooklyn and East Harlem being the areas where the NY Mafia first established a presence in the early 1900s. As Italian population started to move out of these areas, so did the Mafia.

Baltimoron

a. Idiots who have overstayed their welcome in urban (Baltimore) Maryland and have immigrated to other states such as Pennsylvania. Baltimorons often state that they left urban life because of crime and a high cost of living. Once an area such as southern Pennsylvania becomes infected with Baltimorons, the taxes are dramatically increased and the quality of life of the natives is diminished. Once the Baltimorons realize that they have created taxes equal to their home land, the idiots end up moving back to Maryland after they have destroyed the balance of outlying communities.

a. Did you see what that neighbor did? It is okay, he is a baltimoron, he doesn't know any better.
b. Freaking Baltimorons have congested the community. It takes me 20 minutes to cross town now.
c. This used to be a nice area to raise a family till the invasion of the Baltimorons.

Also Michael and Andimo Pappadio who were big in the luchese family but rarely talked about

Brooklyn