in 1933 the gangsters of New York were riding high. After a decade of increasingly violent liquor wars, the criminal landscape had reached a relatively peaceful equilibrium. However, while the underworld was experiencing a golden age of good governance in the early ‘30s, legitimate, financial...

By the late '20s childhood friends Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lanksy were high ranking gangsters, running various profitable criminal schemes from their Lower East Side headquarters. However, the streets are always changing and influx of freshly arrived, old-school, Sicilian gangsters was...