The Irish Mob

Owney "Killer" Madden started out his career in crime with Gangs of New York outfit the Gophers before moving up in the world to open the world-famous Cotton Club. John "Red" Hamilton was the number two to notorious bank robber John Dillinger.

Mickey Spillane, "the last of the gentleman gangsters", waged a decades-long war with the Mafia for control of Hell's Kitchen. In the 1980s the Westies, led by Jimmy Coonan, emerged as one of the most feared gangs of killers the city had ever seen.

Danny Greene, known as the Celtic Warrior, ran a criminal empire in Cleveland and took on the might of the Italian mob with no fear at all. Jimmy "The Gent" Burke was the basis for Robert De Niro's character in Goodfellas.