Lucchese crime family Brooklyn faction

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The Brooklyn faction of the Lucchese crime family is a group of Italian American mobsters who control organized crime activities in the New York metropolitan area but are predominantly based in Brooklyn and Staten Island. The administration of the Lucchese family have identified crews and members based in Brooklyn as the being part of the Brooklyn faction. Since the leaders of the Lucchese family were originally from the Harlem and Bronx faction of the family. The Lucchese family has had members operating in Brooklyn dating back into the 1930s. The earliest known Brooklyn based caporegime was Salvatore "Don Turiddo" Curiale who led his crew operating in Brownsville, Canarsie and East New York. After Curiale retired his crew was taken over by Caporegime Paul Vario. The Vario Crew, sometimes known as the Canarsie Crew, had predominantly been based in Brooklyn neighborhoods of Canarsie and Flatlands. The crew was controlled by Caporegime Paul Vario during the early 1960s into the early...

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