Who are the most influential/powerful crews in the modern day?

Good question.

We're always hearing about Queens, Bronx, Manhatten, Brooklyn, SI and Jersey.
Looking forward to any contributions regards LI.

All 5 NY families operate on Long Island to some extent or another. Probably the Luccheses and Colombos the most.

Carmine Avellino had a crew on LI, Migliore did but he's retired. I think the Lucchese consig operates on LI, Caridi.

Yes all the families have operations on Long Island, but three most visible are the Colombos with the most power, I will might take flak for that one. The Bonannos as second, Tommy has a well oiled crew there, and third would be the Lucchese, but they may have surpassed the Bonannos. LI is a Colombo stronghold.

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Every family probaly has a personal graveyard out there. The one in Tommy shots trial they only found wild bill wonder were all the other bodies went. Or they probaly didn't care. There was a bonanno capo elmont guess he was Tony ducks driver then Vic n gas chased him. Any guy has a mansion out on the Hamptons. They say when Tony ducks became boss he planted flags all over long island and wanted it for them.

Always wonder what ducks and gambinos relationship was like. Never heard anything. Ducks becomes.boss around 72 73 correct?

Ducks becomes boss after he gets out of prison. Many members of the Lucchese family had houses there starting with Lucchese himself. Joe Profaci had a house there. The Colombos started to move into the area heavy after Joe Colombo died. Bonannos were kind of mixed with the war going on during the banana-split. Gambinos had guys living there, even the Genovese had people there as well. Like I posted earlier, the three families that have the most presence there are Bonannos, Colombos and Lucchese.

Should have said ducks and Carlo gambino relationship. Carlo was only 6 years older then him that's not that much time.

And Carlo gambino looked really old for 72 around his death guy must have loved some narcotic. Or they fuck up his social security card and he died when he was 82.

Real good spot to have a strong hold on . To many families in North Jersey , but it is similar and good money maker.

Strange" it's hole different life style then the other boroughs.

That's because Long Island ain't a borough, Serp .

Got me there,and got me laughing !

Live on Yes.

Operate No.

I became interested in this again after reading about Vincent Papa's theft of the NYPD narcotics locker after the French Connection. He orchestrated this apparently with a lot of help from the Luchesse Long island crew (now headed by Joe Caridi). Also heard that the Luchesse's at that time had been centered around the five towns and Rockville Center, which makes sense, since they practically ran the airport at the time.

The Colombo had the graveyard in Farmingdale, which I knew about, but I never thought that they were so powerful out there. That's interesting as I thought they had isolated themselves in Dyker Heights and Gravesend. Any more info on this Tommy shots crew out there? Are they in Suffolk?

As for the Genovese, I knew Tino Fiumara had a house on the north shore but that was probably to keep himself insulated from the Jersey crew that he ran. Don't know much else about the westside out there.

One of the Westside garbage heavies lives in Southampton full-time. He owns a lot of beachfront out there, too. Big money. Too much to count. He doesn't make headlines, so I won't post his name. But if you dig deep enough online you can probably figure it out.

The Politicians have everything locked up on the island.

The Republicans are the organized Crime Family out here.

A lot of mob guys live on Long Island

Where is Migiore originaly from?Queens?

Yes, his crew was more LI based though.

Pure guesswork but I'd imagine Ducks had a good relationship with Gambino & Castellano, as Corallo was one of Lucchese's top guys and he was close to Carlo. All were low key, heavy white collar guys.

Most guys that make money from queens move out to the Island as do guys from parts of brooklyn such as Canarsie. Depending on what part of brooklyn your from usually dictates whether you go to staten island or long island. But long island has all 5 with a lot going on. There is more money to made on long island than 101st ave in ozone park.

I was just in bensonhurst / dyker heights and there was an old school italian sulumaria iwent to in the past so i walked in and to my dismay, it was now a chinese owned convenience store. They still kept the friggin sign up though with the name of the new business in small letters under it. Wtf !

Gambino's, Lucchese, Colombo, and Bonanno have a lot of interests out on long island. The new italian social clubs are now suburban restaurants, dunkin donuts, and diners.

True, just like the East Harlem guys made the jump to the East Bronx, and the Bronx guys eventually made the jump to Westchester. Same principle.

Ducks was White Collar. Garbage, unions, gravel and concrete, etc. That's what made the choice he made with Vic and Gas that much more of a head scratcher. I personally believe that he was losing it towards the end (between the Commission Case and everything else).

Amazing how different the landscape could be.

Luongo head of the Lukes and Donnie Brasco stays on record with Jilly and Sonny Black takes the reigns of the Bonanno's. Not fat rat joe.

Both small things at the time. But changed LCN irreparably.

Ducks was White Collar. Garbage, unions, gravel and concrete, etc. That's what made the choice he made with Vic and Gas that much more of a head scratcher. I personally believe that he was losing it towards the end (between the Commission Case and everything else).

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I guess we will never know but you could be right, utterly bizarre choice.