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Lucchese crime family Brooklyn faction

Faction of the Lucchese crime family

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
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The Brooklyn faction of the Lucchese crime family is a group of Italian American mobsters who control organized crime activities in the New York metropolitan area but are predominantly based in Brooklyn and Staten Island. The administration of the Lucchese family have identified crews and members based in Brooklyn as the being part of the Brooklyn faction. Since the leaders of the Lucchese family were originally from the Harlem and Bronx faction of the family.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lucchese crime family Brooklyn faction” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.