For decades, John “Sonny” Franzese was a notorious mobster in the Colombo crime family and a formidable figure in the New York Mafia. Born in 1917, Franzese’s criminal career spanned everything from ...

Fear City: New York vs The Mafia targets the mob bosses In the mid-80s, the FBI decided to target Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, boss of the Genovese family, the largest crime family in the U.S.

DiMatteo has written numerous books on the mafia and crime in New York. He said he wanted to be a gangster for as long as he could remember.© Zandy Mangold The cover of Dimatteo's new book.

For Mafia chieftain Joe Bonanno, New York City was always “The Volcano.” The Sicilian immigrant, who arrived in Brooklyn as a 3-year-old boy, viewed his adopted hometown as an ever-bubbling ...

Even with all the changes in the Mafia, some things remain the same. “They’re still part of the fabric of New York City,” said a law-enforcement source. “They’re never going to go away.” ...

Netflix's three-part documentary 'Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia' takes a very familiar look at the paradigm-shifting Mafia Commission investigation and trial of the 1980s.

"Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia" tells the story of law enforcement's attempts to end mob rule in NYC, but one major figure is missing from the Netflix documentary—Donald Trump.

New York City’s Five Families owned the 20th Century. Now they must confront the 21st — still alive, still armed and still dangerous. Today’s traditional Mafia family has ventured… ...

One of New York’s “Five Families,” the Bonanno family was originally known as the Maranzano crime family. That changed once its founder Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in 1931.