Volumes have been written through the years about Brooklyn’s infamous Gallo brothers — Crazy Joe, Larry, and Kid Blast — so these boys need no introduction here.
Yet, despite all the notoriety and print they’ve received through the years, catapulting the brothers and the Gallo Gang they headed to fame. Or, more appropriately — to infamy — to this day, most of the hoodlums who actually made up the membership of their gang remain largely anonymous to the general public and to mob aficionados alike.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, the daily mayhem the Gallos created was carried on the front pages of newspapers and magazines and reported on regularly in nightly news reports in homes all across the nation.
Their criminal exploits and the bloody gang wars their breakaway faction waged against the hierarchy of Brooklyn’s long-established Mafia power — the Joseph Profaci Family (later renamed the Colombo Family) — are the stuff of underworld legend.
But who were the actual members of the Gallo Gang? Button Guys has taken another deep dive into researching the gang’s background history to better answer that question. What follows is an expansive chart listing the names of most of the hoodlums who made up the gang’s rank-and-file membership from the early 1950s through the gang’s dissolution by the mid-1970s.
The Gallo brothers ran a deceptively large gang that, at its peak, boasted a membership of made guys and core associates as well as an outer ring of more loosely affiliated hoodlums numbering well over 100 men.
The Button Guys chart we created and included in this story lists 132 documented soldiers and core associates of the gang. We also included a rogues’ gallery with 55 unique mugshots of their members.
And now, without further ado…
Often Imitated. Never Duplicated. Button Guys of The New York Mafia...There's Only One!
