The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” ...

Queens prosecutors charge 32 gang members in a 97-count indictment tied to 13 shootings, 3 murders and years of violence; ...

The four-year turf battle in Southeast Queens often played out in broad daylight near parks, public schools and residential ...

List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- List of Characters -- Prologue. Naked City -- Ch. 1. Reel Gangsters -- Mobsters and the Movies -- Ch. 2. Real Gangsters: Abe Reles & the Origins of ...

When we think about the mafia in Buffalo, we tend to think about Bills Mafia. But long before the Bills Mafia made it onto ...

Portland Trail Blazers coach and basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is set to appear in a New York court to face charges he profited from rigged poker games involving several Mafia figures ...

The author, 97, raised money for the food pantry at his old church by reading from “Legs,” the gangster novel he began his ...

Director Rebecca Miller looks back on spending time on Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York set, years before she profiled the filmmaker in her new documentary Mr. Scorsese "His attitude was not ...