After closing down this Mob Talk Social Club Community over a year ago, we decided to come back. We are in the process of building this Mob Talk Social Club community once again. We are presently working on bringing several high-profile former mobsters / made guys as well as several known GANGSTER actors into our community whereby they will commit to doing monthly Zoom meetings. Please be patient while we put this together. The SIXTH FAMILY...... (The Unveiling of the name of the Sixth Family Coming Soon). We hope our Mob Talk Social Club will grow from 152 members to THOUSANDS of New Members in the coming months as we open up the BOOKS.......Coming Soon! - Michael Franzese - Salvatore "Sammy The Bull" Gravano - Dom Cicale Mafia MafiaRoundtable - Gene Borrello - The Sitdown with Jeff Nadu - The Skinny with Joey Merlino & LIL Snuff - Anthony Ruggiano - Sitdownnews: John Pennisi - Mikey Scars DiLeonardo - Tommy Karate Pitera Speaks EVENTS: Cigar & Wine Night, Italian Cooking Night, Leaderboard Q&A with Special Guests as well as prizes, Boxing Night where you can speak to your favorite Old G Boxers, Vito Antuofermo, Iran Barkley, Jr. Jones, Michael Nunn, James Tomey just to name a few. Real Life Goodfella Recreates the Goodfellas Prison Dinner (And the Stories That Come With It) Here is the Breakdown on what we will be doing once we get the Mobcasters committed to appear as special guests in our Mob Talk Social Club community. General Membership: $10.00 per month – 50% Commission for referring your friends into our Mob Talk Social Club community. Premium $20.00 per month – Benefits Can participate in Monthly ZOOM Calls with Special Guests if they make the 30-day LEADERBOARD or Leaderboard (all-time) - 50% Commission for referring your friends into our Mob Talk Social Club community. VIP $25.00 per month – Free access to all monthly Zoom Calls and Special Events – Signed Autographs – Special one on one Zoom calls – Private dinner events – Recognized by us as a VIP Member - A chance to be selected as a special guest on a celebrity Mopcast - Special invites to Boxing events - 50% Commission for referring your friends into our Mob Talk Social Club community.

New York’s Deadliest Mafia Hangouts — Then vs Now 34,718 views Aug 8, 2026 #MafiaClubs #MafiaThenAndNow #NewYorkMafia The Mafia once ran parts of New York from these buildings. Today, you could walk past them without knowing what happened inside. For decades, Mafia social clubs were the nerve centers of organized crime in New York City. They looked ordinary from the street—a small storefront, neighborhood club, café, or private room—but behind those doors, some of America's most powerful gangsters met with their crews. John Gotti had the Ravenite. Vincent "The Chin" Gigante had the Triangle. Roy DeMeo had the Gemini Lounge. From Manhattan's Little Italy to Brooklyn and Queens, these clubs became places where mobsters gambled, collected money, discussed disputes, met associates, conducted business, and sometimes planned violence. But the Mafia world that created them is disappearing. The bosses died. The crews went to prison. Neighborhoods changed. Buildings were renovated. Businesses moved in. And some of New York's most infamous Mafia locations became completely ordinary places. In this documentary, we're going back to nine former Mafia clubs across New York City to see what they looked like during the mob's golden era—and what stands at those addresses today. Some transformations are almost impossible to believe. Places once surrounded by FBI surveillance are now surrounded by tourists. Storefronts where made men once gathered have become restaurants, apartments, shops, churches, and modern businesses. The addresses survived. THE RAVENITE SOCIAL CLUB Few Mafia headquarters became more famous than the Ravenite on Mulberry Street. During the John Gotti era, the club became synonymous with the Gambino crime family. Gotti regularly appeared outside surrounded by captains, soldiers, associates, reporters, photographers, and FBI surveillance teams. The Ravenite became a symbol of Gotti's confidence. It also became an intelligence gold mine for law enforcement. THE TRIANGLE Vincent "The Chin" Gigante operated differently. The Genovese boss avoided Gotti's celebrity lifestyle and cultivated an image of mental illness while maintaining enormous influence in the underworld. The Triangle Civic Improvement Association in Greenwich Village became closely associated with Gigante and his crew. To ordinary New Yorkers, it looked like another neighborhood club. To the FBI, it was something very different. THE GEMINI LOUNGE Then there was Roy DeMeo. The Gemini Lounge in Brooklyn became infamous because of the DeMeo Crew, one of the most violent groups associated with the Gambino crime family. Behind an ordinary neighborhood exterior existed an underworld that would later become legendary in Mafia history. Today, the transformation of locations like the Gemini demonstrates just how completely New York has changed. Why Mafia social clubs mattered: Before encrypted phones and digital communication, organized crime depended heavily on face-to-face meetings. Social clubs gave mobsters somewhere to gather without conducting every conversation over telephones they believed could be tapped. They also demonstrated territorial control. If you knew who occupied a particular club, you knew whose neighborhood you were entering. But those same locations eventually became vulnerabilities. FBI surveillance cameras appeared. Agents photographed visitors. License plates were recorded. Informants entered the clubs. Listening devices captured conversations. And the places designed to protect Mafia secrecy helped investigators understand the organizations operating inside them. Why this story matters today: New York remembers its Mafia history through movies, documentaries, photographs, and courtroom stories. But the physical history is still around us. The buildings remain. You can stand where John Gotti once held court. Walk past locations where FBI agents watched Mafia captains arrive. Visit neighborhoods once dominated by crews whose names terrified New York. Yet without knowing the history, you'd never notice anything unusual. That's what makes these locations fascinating. Yesterday, they were Mafia territory. Today, they're just another part of New York City. The Mob disappeared. The addresses survived.

Real Life Goodfella Recreates the Goodfellas Prison Dinner (And the Stories That Come With It) - YouTube Aug 20, 2026 Sit Down with Michael Franzese 🍝 Get the Goodfellas Bundle — 3 wines + my full Mob Movie Cookbook: https://franzesewine.com/goodfellas I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked about the cooking scene in Goodfellas. “Michael, did you really eat like that in prison?” People — I knew all those guys. All of them. And today I’m finally recreating that iconic prison dinner — the gravy (NOT sauce, and I’ll tell you why we called it gravy), the pasta, the whole scene. I’ll tell you what we REALLY ate on the inside, how close the movie got it, and the one thing they got completely wrong. While I’m cooking, I’m sipping my wine and answering your questions about the life. I did the time so you don’t have to — all you gotta do is watch. Salud! 0:00 — Did I Really Eat Like That in Good Fellas? 1:04 — Gravy or Sauce? What My Family Called It 1:51 — Paulie Vario's Razor Blade Was Real 3:30 — Starting the Meat — Veal, Pork, and Beef 5:13 — Al Dente — What Italy Taught Me About Pasta 6:52 — Three Years in Solitary Living on Cup of Soup 9:22 — The Garlic Scene From Good Fellas 10:23 — The Time I Took My Wife to See Good Fellas 13:04 — The Godfather "Went to the Mattresses" Scene 17:22 — The Only Tomatoes I Use 18:21 — I Started Drinking Wine at 10 in My Grandpa's Basement 19:26 — What I Really Ate Behind Bars 22:14 — Jeffrey MacDonald — What I Saw in His Eyes 26:25 — The Year I Spent With the Menendez Brothers 32:27 — The Most Authentic Mob Movie I've Ever Seen 33:51 — Epstein Didn't Hang Himself — I Was in That Cell 35:42 — Why the World Is So Intrigued With the Mob 37:47 — The Gift Jimmy Burke Sent Me at Lewisburg 40:53 — Diesel Therapy — The Worst Part of My Time Inside 42:34 — Why My Wine Comes From Armenia 47:07 — Digging In — In Prison, This Would Be Your Whole Day Ex-Mob Boss Recreates Goodfellas Prison Dinner While Telling Wild Prison Stories