Gotham Unbound : : How New York City Was Liberated From the Grip of Organized Crime /

Gotham Unbound : : How New York City Was Liberated From the Grip of Organized Crime / / Coleen Friel, James B. Jacobs, Robert Raddick.

Cosa Nostra. Organized crime. The Mob. Call it what you like, no other crime group has infiltrated labor unions and manipulated legitimate industries like Italian organized crime families. One cannot understand the history and political economy of New York City-or most other major American cities-in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Jacobs, James B.,
Friel, Coleen,
Raddick, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©1999
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. An Introduction to the Place and the Players
  • PART I: THE “MOBBING-UP” OF NEW YORK CITY
  • 2. A Cosa Nostra Outfit
  • 3. Fishy Business
  • 4. The Taking of John F.Kennedy Airport
  • 5. Exhibiting Corruption
  • 6. Carting Away a Fortune
  • 7. Building a Cosa Nostra Fiefdom
  • 8. Conclusion to Part I
  • PART II: THE LIBERATION OF NEW YORK CITY
  • 9. Liberating the Garment District
  • 10. Freeing the Fulton Fish Market
  • 11. Purging the Mob from John F.Kennedy Airport
  • 12. Ridding the Javits Convention Center of Organized Crime
  • 13. Defeating Cosa Nostra in the Waste-Hauling Industry
  • 14. Cleansing the Construction Industry
  • 15. Conclusion to Part II
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Names
  • List of Indictments and Judicial Decisions
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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