The Westies: The Irish Gang That Made the Italian Mafia Beg for Mercy

If you enjoyed this documentary, and want to help my channel, consider subscribing. It helps a lot:    / @concretekingdoms   ___ In February 1978, two Irish guys from Hell's Kitchen walked into a Brooklyn restaurant full of Gambino soldiers — and walked out with a deal that would change organized crime in New York City forever. The Westies were never more than 12 to 20 members. They controlled just 10 blocks of Manhattan's West Side. But what they did inside those blocks made them the most feared crew in the city — so feared that the most powerful Mafia family in America chose alliance over war.