116th Street Crew
The 116th Street Crew, also known as the Uptown Crew, is a group of Italian-American mobsters 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 in the Palma Boys Social Club located at 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 independently of the Mafia.
| Founded | 1890s |
|---|---|
| Founder | Morello crime family |
| Founding location | East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
| Years active | 1890s–present |
| Territory | Upper Manhattan and the Bronx |
| Ethnicity | Italian American as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
| Membership (est.) | 20 |
| Activities | Racketeering, murder, extortion, illegal gambling, loansharking, and bookmaking |
| Allies | The Lucchese, Gambino, Bonanno and Colombo crime families, as well as the East Harlem Purple Gang prior to its dissolution |
| Rivals | Various gangs |
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