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Author

Jacobs, James B.

Title Gotham unbound : how New York City was liberated from the grip of organized crime / James B. Jacobs ; with Coleen Friel and Robert Radick.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, 2001, c1999.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	364.106 J153g 2001	---	Available

Description	x, 329 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Note	"First published in paperback in 2001"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-314) and index.
Contents	A Cosa Nostra outfit : seven decades of mob rule in the garment district -- Fishy business : the Mafia and the Fulton Fish Market -- The taking of John F. Kennedy Airport -- Exhibiting corruption : the Javits Convention Center -- Carting away a fortune : Cosa Nostra and the waste-hauling industry -- Building a Cosa Nostra fiefdom : the construction industry -- Conclusion to part I -- Liberating the garment district -- Freeing the Fulton Fish Market -- Purging the mob from John F. Kennedy Airport -- Ridding the Javits Convention Center of organized crime -- Defeating Cosa Nostra in the waste-hauling industry -- Cleansing the construction industry -- Conclusion to part II.
Subject	Racketeering -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Mafia -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Organized crime investigation -- New York (State) -- New York.
Added Author	Friel, Coleen.
	Radick, Robert.
ISBN	0814742475 (pbk.)