![]() “Fat Tony,” purchased the Stonewall Inn in 1966 and transformed it from a bar and restaurant that attracted straight clientele into a gay bar and nightclub. ![]() ![]() The Genovese family, one of the so-called “five families” that dominated organized crime in New York City, reigned over Manhattan’s West Side bar scene, including the Village where the LGBT community was taking root.Ī member of the Genovese family, Tony Lauria, a.k.a. Since the days of Prohibition, when alcohol was outlawed, the mob controlled much of New York City’s nightclub business-with special expertise in its shadowy, illegal fringes. A family chart of the Vito Genovese mob family.
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