At the point when Gambino touched base in New York City

history channel documentary In late 1921, Gambino left Sicily on the vessel SS Vincenzo Florio, which was set out toward America. For the whole trek, Gambino subsisted on only wine and anchovies, which other than olive oil, were the main nourishment substances on the boat. The SS Vincenzo Florio docked in Norfolk, Virgina, on December 23, 1921, and Gambino landed as an illicit foreigner. Wearing a natty tuxedo and a dark fedora, Gambino strolled down the gangplank searching for an auto, he was told when he cleared out in Palermo, would sit tight for him when he docked in America, with blazing lights toward the end of the dock. He recognized the auto and when he touched base at it, Gambino saw a Castellano cousin sitting in the driver's seat. The two men grasped, and in seconds they were made a beeline for New York City.

At the point when Gambino touched base in New York City he was satisfied to find that his Castellano cousins had as of now leased him a flat on Navy Street in Brooklyn, close to the waterfront. They likewise set Gambino to work in a trucking organization possessed by his first cousins Peter and Paul Castellano. Before long Gambino segued into the illicit bootlegging business, keep running by his Palermo buddy Tommy Lucchese. Preclusion was founded by the death of the Volstead Act in 1919, which banned the assembling, deal, or transport of inebriating mixers, however not the utilization. On thing prompted another, and soon Gambino was a principle machine gear-piece in the team of Joe "The Boss" Masseria, the most effective Mafioso in America. Be that as it may, another Mafioso had gotten away from Mussolini's fury and landed in America in the mid-1920's. His name was Salvatore Maranzano, second in charge to Don Vito Cascio Ferro in Sicily. Maranzano figured the Sicilian Mafioso were much better than those in America, so it was just normal that he ought to wind up the top Mafia supervisor in America. This didn't sit well with Masseria, and the outcome was the Castellammarese War, which overflowed the boulevards of New York City with scores of dead bodies from 1929-31.