Mob Ledger

Files on the American underworld

Territory

The ground

Where the families in this archive actually kept their headquarters, and where the things in it happened. Four cities, one tab each. Points, not shaded territory — the record supports addresses far better than it supports borders.

The Endless Mountains New York State The Wyoming Valley The anthracite fields The Susquehanna N 1 2 3 4 5
A schematic, not a survey. The valley runs south-west to north-east as drawn; the distances along it are not to scale.

  1. Point1

    Pittston

    Luzerne County, Pennsylvania · The Bufalino Family

    Russell Bufalino ran the family from this town of a few thousand people and was consulted by organisations twenty times its size.

  2. Point2

    Kingston

    Across the river from Wilkes-Barre · The Bufalino Family

    Bufalino died in a nursing home here in February 1994, a few miles from where he had run the family for thirty-five years.

  3. Point3

    Wilkes-Barre

    The south of the valley · The Bufalino Family

    The southern end of the anthracite valley, and with Scranton the industrial base the family attached itself to.

  4. Point4

    Scranton

    The north of the valley · The Bufalino Family

    The garment shops that took sewing work out of Manhattan sat in these valleys. The family did not own them; it moved the cloth.

  5. Point5

    Apalachin

    Tioga County, New York · The Bufalino Family

    Joseph Barbara, this family boss before Bufalino, hosted the November 1957 meeting here. State police took the names of roughly sixty men as they left.