Genovese

The Genovese crime family, also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia. The Genovese family is the oldest and the largest of New York's Five Families, and was the first of the New York families to expand into New Jersey. The Genovese family has also generally maintained a varying degree of influence over many of the smaller Mafia families outside New York, including ties with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Patriarca, and Buffalo crime families.