One of the most important industries to New York’s economy, the whole nation for that matter, was the garment industry. It was an industry deeply infiltrated by the underworld for 80-plus years. Starting with the Jewish mobs in the 1920s, this underworld “invasion” was total!
All the Italian LCN Families were involved, getting a “piece” of the pie, but the Lucchese Family, as original “point men” for the mob, would always dominate, along with the Genovese Family, the rag trade!
Manufacturers, designers, cutters, contractors, sewing-machine factories, supply houses that made the buttons, zippers, trimmings, etc, garment truckers, salesmen, jobbers, and the like owed their very existence to the industry!
