Editing Schiro crime family (section)

==Formation==
David Critchley describes the family as exclusively Sicilian and heavily attuned to interrelated mafiosi from Castellammare del Golfo. Kinship and birthplace ties developed as immigrants settled near one another in Williamsburg, while links extended to Castellammarese networks in Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and other cities.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA214 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 212–230.</ref> The [[Milazzo Gang|Gaspar Milazzo faction in Detroit]] maintained strong links to Schiro's milieu but operated as an independent local group. This structure arose from migration and recruitment, not from a documented corporate merger of blood families or routine command over every out-of-town formation.

Warner, Santino and Van't Reit cautiously date Sebastiano DiGaetano's leadership of the formative [[Williamsburg Gang|Williamsburg organization]] to approximately 1909 or 1910. Schiro succeeded him in March 1912.<ref name="Warner" /> The former “Schiro Gang” label is therefore best understood as an imprecise name spanning the transition rather than a separate organization that merged to create the family.