116th Street Crew
| Founded by | Morello crime family |
|---|---|
| Founding location |
 New York City
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| Years active | 1890s-present |
| Territory | Upper Manhattan and The Bronx. |
| Ethnicity | Italian, Italian-American made men, and other ethnicities as "associates" |
| Membership (est.) | 20 |
| Criminal activities | Racketeering, Murder, Labour Unions, Extortion, Illegal Gambling, Loansharking, and Bookmaking |
| Allies | Lucchese, Gambino, Bonanno and Colombo crime families, as well as the East Harlem Purple Gang prior to its dissolution. |
| Rivals | Various gangs. |
The 116th Street crew, also known as the Uptown crew, is a powerful crew within the Genovese crime family. In the early 1960s, Anthony Salerno became one of the most powerful capos in the family. Salerno based the crew out of the Palma Boys Social Club located 416 East 115th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, the 116th Street crew had absorbed and initiated many former members of the vicious East Harlem Purple Gang, an Italian-American murder for hire and drug trafficking gang operating in 1970s Italian Harlem and acting generally independent of the Mafia.
In the early 1890s, a group of four brothers (Giuseppe Morello, and his half-brothers Nicholo, Vincenzo and Ciro Terranova) arrived in New York City from Corleone, Sicily. The Morello-Terranova brothers soon started taking over the growing Little Italy in East Harlem, by using the black hand technique of extorting small business and running illegal gambling operations. The group became known as the 116th Street Mob (or Morello gang). With their increasing power the Morello's sought to control Lower Manhattan's Little Italy. The Little Italy in lower Manhattan was under the control of Ignazio "Lupo the Wolf" Saietta, Before a gang war erupted, the two sides decided on joining forces. Giuseppe Morello became the Capo di tutti capi (or boss of bosses), but before long he and Ignazio Saietta were arrested and charged with counterfeiting in 1910.
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