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#REDIRECT [[1910s in organized crime#1916]]
''See also:''
[[1915 in organized crime]],
[[1916|other events of 1916]],
[[1917 in organized crime]] and the
[[Timeline of organized crime|list of 'years in organized crime']].


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==Events==
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*Summer - New York Police break up the last of the Manhattan street gangs, including the [[Hudson Dusters]], from [[Battery Park|The Battery]] to [[Spuyten Duyvil]]. Many of these former gang members would become employed as labor sluggers. Street gangs would become non-existent in New York until the release of "Kid Dropper" [[Nathan Kaplan]] and [[Johnny Spanish]] the following year.
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*The [[Mafia-Camorra War]] begins in [[New York]] between the [[Manhattan]] Sicilian and Neapolitan [[Brooklyn]] Mafia.
*[[September 7]] - [[Nicholas Morello]], leader of the [[Morello crime family]], is killed with bodyguard [[Charles Ubriaco]] outside a [[Navy Street]] restaurant while arriving at peace negotiations with rival [[Pellegrino Morano]].

==Arts and literature==
*''[[Poor Little Peppina]]'' (film) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007202/]

==Births==
*[[April 1]] - [[Gus Alex]], [[Chicago Outfit]] member
*[[June 10]] - [[Peter LoCascio|Peter Joseph LoCascio]] "Mr. Bread", [[New York]] ([[Lower East Side]]) syndicate mobster involved in narcotics

==Deaths==
*[[September 7]] - [[Nicholas Morello]], [[Morello crime family]] leader
*[[September 7]] - [[Charles Ubriaco]], [[Morello crime family]] member

[[Category:1916|Organized crime]]
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Latest revision as of 23:37, 4 December 2023