86th Street Gang

The 86th Street Gang was a criminal organization in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Most accounts claim it existed from the mid 1920s until the late 1950s, though smaller subsets of the organization lived on until the mid 1970s.
The 86th Street Gang was founded by Salvatore Conte in the 1920s, as a loose collection of Italian-American petty criminals and extortionists. By the 1930s, the gang included leadership from Carmine Ferrone, Tom DiSerro and Federico Pagano. The organization flourished during Prohibition, as they dominated most of Bay Ridge's illegal alcohol market by organizing trade routes from Canada, and having an extensive array of corrupt policemen in their arsenal.
However, by the mid 1940s, internal disputes caused rifts within the organization. By 1949, Carmine Ferrone and Tom DiSerro, as well as their respective crews, split off from the 86th Street Gang and formed what became the Ferrone crime family.
The 86th Street Gang survived into the 1950s, when in 1951, Salvatore Conte was assassinated by a rival small-time Irish crew. Federico Pagano remained in control of the gang until most people agree the gang was dissolved, in the late 1950s. However, Pagano himself lived until 1972, and maintained a fairly notable criminal profile during that time.
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