Editing Coney Island gang (section)

==Rackets and alliance==
Morano operated gambling, policy and card games and worked with Navy Street figures in criminal ventures. Around 1912 he reportedly ran a Mulberry Street card game with Angelo Giordano and Alessandro Vollero, demonstrating cooperation across neighborhood lines.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA112 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', pp. 112–121].</ref> Testimony also connected people around the Santa Lucia milieu to cocaine sales, but the evidence does not establish a centrally managed narcotics department.

The [[Navy Street gang|Navy Street]] and Coney Island groups cooperated but retained separate leadership and bases. Their alliance should not be mistaken for permanent subordination to one Brooklyn boss.