I'm not sure that it matters what NY thinks any longer due to their own problems...I don't think that they really care about the other families....unless of course they can make some money with them. Sonny is the boss, and the gambling/book/sharking is still in tact..I respectfully disagree with some of the other opinions here, though they are really great posters. One thing that differed in Pittsburgh from the other families, was that they made very very few members, and instead, relied on a tremendous # of associates to do the usual grunt work of low level soldiers...those associates are still around and are conducting business as usual...their hooks into unions and construction is largely gone, but the bread and butter LCN schemes have never stopped...not in the different sections of Pittsburgh, nor in Youngstown or WV..I am not certain about NY (ie.Jamestown or Rochester), or Erie.