Red Hook: Brooklyn Mafia, Ground Zero

Long before Brooklyn was known as the world’s hippest neighborhood, it was the deadliest - the seedy, dangerous underbelly of New York City, where mobsters and gangs could commit murder and dump dead bodies without getting caught. This is the real, gritty history the New York mobs in Red Hook, Brooklyn—where the streets ran red with blood—by a Mafia survivor who grew up there . . .

Before Brooklyn’s peninsula, known as Red Hook, became known for its arts and cultural scene, industrial chic, ...