Red Hook: Brooklyn Mafia, Ground Zero

The shocking crime-drenched saga of the New York mobs in Red Hook, Brooklyn-where the streets ran red with blood-by a Mafia survivor who grew up there . . .

For more than a hundred years, the Red Hook section of Brooklyn was Ground Zero for organized crime. Whoever controlled the piers controlled everything. From the infamous Irish gang known as The White Hand at the turn of the century, to the notorious Italian Gallo brothers who ran President Street-and everything else-generations later, ...