Editing Navy Street gang (section)

==Organization and rackets==
Members and associates gathered at the Vollero–Lauritano coffeehouse at '''113 Navy Street'''.<ref name="Nelli" /> The often-repeated 133 address is not used because the stronger source and prosecution exhibit identify 113. Testimony connected individuals to gambling, policy, robbery, burglary, cocaine sales and violent enforcement, but revenues were not necessarily pooled and some drug business was entrepreneurial rather than centrally controlled.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 118–126.</ref>

One participant, John Esposito, testified that Navy Street was “not officially a gang”; he described friendship and shared activity rather than paid employment under bosses. Other testimony used leadership language and identified recruits or workers. The safest description is therefore an organized but informal criminal association—not a salaried hierarchy with a stable roster.<ref name="Critchley" />