Camorra in New York City
The Brooklyn Camorra or New York Camorra (NY Camorra) was a loose grouping of early-20th-century organized crime gangs that formed among Italian immigrants originating in Naples and the surrounding Campania region living in Greater New York, particularly in Brooklyn. In the early 20th century, the criminal underworld of New York City consisted largely of Italian Harlem-based Sicilians and groups of Neapolitans from Brooklyn, sometimes referred to as the Brooklyn Camorra, as Neapolitan organized crime is referred to as the Camorra.
The Navy Street Gang, one of the Camorra groups in Brooklyn | |
| Founding location | Brooklyn, New York City |
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| Years active | 1885–1918 |
| Territory | Brooklyn and East Harlem |
| Ethnicity | Neapolitan American |
| Criminal activities | Various criminal rackets, mainly extortion, policy game, and wholesale fruit and vegetable markets. |
Although immigration from Naples and Campania to New York City was rather small compared to that from the rest of southern Italy and Sicily, criminal groups from that area would have a substantial impact on organized crime events in the 1910s. However, their recorded links to crime organisations in Italy were "weak to non-existent".