Editing Philadelphia crime family (section)

==Relationship to the compaesani networks==
The Philadelphia family belongs in the broader history of Castellammaresi diaspora connections because Sabella and other early figures maintained blood, hometown and fraternal ties to Brooklyn and Buffalo. However:

* hometown origin did not create automatic membership;
* wartime cooperation did not establish permanent subordination;
* the Philadelphia family had its own local membership, leadership and territory;
* later non-Castellammaresi recruitment made the organization broader than its early Sicilian bloc.

The safest description is an independent Philadelphia family that emerged partly through Castellammaresi migration networks—not an institutional split ordered by the New York network.