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NYC Mob Bust

US and Italian authorities launched a massive operation against the New York and Sicilian Mafia, arresting more than 80 suspects in a sweep described as a major blow against organized crime. The sweep netted 61 alleged members of 3 of the 5 families that run the Mafia in New York — the Gambino, Genovese, and Bonanno families.

yay, less scum in nyc. maybe my trash will now be collected by the russian mob?

Where to Eat 2008

We analyze these curious dining trends, plus many more, in this, our annual compendium of all that’s stylish, fabulous, and new in the fickle galaxy of New York restaurants. In the following pages, you’ll find our recommendations for an entire year’s worth of serious eating, broken down, as usual, into categories reflecting the most notable culinary happenings of the moment. We will tell you where to procure the most lethal absinthe cocktails in town, instruct you on where to find a good duck egg for brunch, and provide a list of the most lavishly expensive haute cuisine establishments in which to blow the remnants of your year-end bonus. Consider it a kind of road map to take with you on your culinary ramblings. Oh, and if you’re looking for the finest Chinese grub in Brooklyn, we’ve got that, too, along with our yearly summation of New York’s best new restaurants, the best up-and-coming chefs, and, last but not least, the best venues, in this age of rampant culinary correctness, for a sinfully delicious, hormone-saturated, nonorganic feast.

Addiopizzo

Addiopizzo (goodbye extortion money) is a grassroot antimafia movement of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay extortion money “pizzo” to the Mafia, and is based in Palermo. Addiopizzo is an open, fluid and dynamic movement, that acts from below and presents itself as a spokesman of a “cultural revolution” against the Mafia. It is constituted by all women and men, girls and boys, business owners and customers who recognize themselves in this sentence: “A whole population that pays the pizzo is a population without dignity”.

destroying the mafia in sicily. we need something like this for the mob in nyc.