Bensonhurst 2017

[santos]

Is it still a mob neighbourhood?

[Pogo The Clown]

It still was in the early 2000s. I don't know about now.


Pogo

[BillyBrizzi]

Here's a NY Times article from 2007 about the subject. Considering this was a decade ago, the mob influence is even less now I reckon..

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/nyreg ... hurst.html

[sdeitche]

Interesting demographic info- changes in neighborhood makeup between 2000 and 2015 (has a map for the whole City as well)

Bensonhurst & Bath Beach
Between 2000 and 2015:
Asian population increased by 36,859
African American population increased by 1,446
Hispanic population increased by 14,929
white population decreased by -34,433

SOurce: http://esrimedia.maps.arcgis.com/apps/S ... 72c0162170

[santos]

Thanks for the answers, Im starting to realise most of the known Italian communities no longer exist, so this is making me think... Could this have been a move on purpose because there was too much heat in those locations due to their "fame" ? So if the Italians dont live there now where did they all move to for their hotspot?... or are they all densely spread out now ?

[BillyBrizzi]

Thanks for the answers, Im starting to realise most of the known Italian communities no longer exist, so this is making me think... Could this have been a move on purpose because there was too much heat in those locations due to their "fame" ? So if the Italians dont live there now where did they all move to for their hotspot?... or are they all densely spread out now ?

They are spread out for the most part. Staten Island has a big Italian-American presence, the North Jersey and Long Island suburbs also.
The Bronx still has some pockets like Throggs Neck, Morris Park and Pelham Bay for instance. Howard Beach in Queens is a neighborhood that still has the biggest mob presence of all the neighborhoods within NY city limits I would think.

[Rocco]

ASIAN AND RUSSIAN. 30% guinea

[santos]

Thanks for the answers, Im starting to realise most of the known Italian communities no longer exist, so this is making me think... Could this have been a move on purpose because there was too much heat in those locations due to their "fame" ? So if the Italians dont live there now where did they all move to for their hotspot?... or are they all densely spread out now ?

They are spread out for the most part. Staten Island has a big Italian-American presence, the North Jersey and Long Island suburbs also.
The Bronx still has some pockets like Throggs Neck, Morris Park and Pelham Bay for instance. Howard Beach in Queens is a neighborhood that still has the biggest mob presence of all the neighborhoods within NY city limits I would think.

Which families are still operating out of howard beach?

[Pogo The Clown]

The Gambinos and Bonannos.


Pogo

[Jbravo]

Its fuckin depressing driving around bayridge and bensonhurst...aint the same towelheads everywhere

[Mikeymike12]

86 street has changed a lot over the years . Damn shame , also people would just drive up and down the street .

[Extortion]

I lived there in 2017 and its not really mobbed up with italian mob but there are two social vlubs. Its mostly eastern european and asian now. Some albanians. There seems to be different crime groups operating there. Vinny tv still hangs out at his club because i saw him there once because i lived two streets over

[scagghiuni]

dyker heights that is next to bensonhurst has still a heavily italian presence
1/3 of bensonhurst is still italian anyway