Owney Madden dominated the streets of the Irish filled neighborhood known as Hells Kitchen. His savage nature and psychopathic tendencies would earn him the uninspired nickname of "Owney The Killer".

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Just as it seemed no one could stop Joe Masseria from controlling the underworld of New York City, a mysterious soft spoken man by the name of Salvatore Maranzano appears on the scene and begins to amass an army of his own to take down Joe the Boss.

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The Castellammarese War Pt 2: Attack of Salvatore Maranzano

Giuseppe Masseria aka 'Joe the Boss' became the most powerful figure in the New York City mafia during the years of Prohibition. He was an old world Italian mafioso who sought to control all five boroughs. However, this lust for territory would lead him into the largest turf war that NYC had ever seen when Salvatore Maranzano decided to go to the mattresses to defend his Sicilian heritage.

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The Castellammarese War Pt 1: Rise of Joe 'the Boss' Masseria

Monk Eastman was one of the last of his kind. A rough thug that ruled over a brutal streetgang named after him. The streets of Lower Manhattan would be turned into a war zone at the hands of Monk Eastman in his fight against the Five Points Gang and their leader, Paul Kelley.

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Monk Eastman, Paul Kelley, and The Five Points Gang

The Morello Crime Family, started by Giuseppe "Old Fox" Morello, was one of the earliest crime families to be established in the United States. The family was based in Italian Harlem and rose to a dominance unmatched in their time.

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