1916 in organized crime

See also: 1915 in organized crime, other events of 1916, 1917 in organized crime and the list of 'years in organized crime'.

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Events

• Summer - New York Police break up the last of the Manhattan street gangs, including the Hudson Dusters, from 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.
• The Mafia-Camorra War begins in New York between the Manhatten Sicilian and Neoplitan Brooklyn Mafia.
• Nicholas Morello, leader of the Morello crime family, is killed outside a Navy St. restaurant while arriving at peace negotiations with rival Don Pellegrino Morano.

Arts and literature

• Poor Little Peppina (film) [1]

Births

• Peter Joseph LoCascio "Mr. Bread", New York (Lower East Side) syndicate mobster involved in narcotics
• April 1 - Gus Alex, Chicago Outfit member

Deaths

• Nicholas Morello, Morello crime family leader