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{{Short description|New York bootlegging gang during Prohibition}}
{{more footnotes|date=November 2011}}
The '''Broadway Mob''' was a New York bootlegging gang during [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]. Although headed by [[Joe Adonis]], the gangs day-to-day operations were handled by [[Charles Luciano|Charles "Lucky" Luciano]] and [[Frank Costello]] as well as financially backed by [[Arnold Rothstein]]. During Manhattan's bootleg wars, Rothstein would bring in the [[Bug and Meyer Mob|Bugs and Meyer Mob]], led by [[Meyer Lansky]] and [[Benjamin Siegel|Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel]], to protect alcohol shipments.

As Luciano and Lansky had previously worked together prior to Prohibition, Meyer and Siegel were made partners in the [[Jewish-American|Judeo]]-[[Italian-American|Italian]] criminal organization. By the late 1920s, the Broadway Mob supplied some of the highest quality [[whiskey]] to several New York [[Speakeasy|speakeasies]], including [[Sherman Billingsley]]'s ''[[Stork Club]]'', the ''[[Silver Slipper (nightclub)|Silver Slipper]]'', [[Jack White's]], and Jack and Charlie's [[21 Club]], among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.in/2013/01/broadway-mob.html|title=BROADWAY Mob|access-date=2013-08-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103151905/http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.in/2013/01/broadway-mob.html#|archive-date=2014-01-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> Even its lesser quality alcohol imported from Philadelphia mobster [[Waxey Gordon]] was considered far superior to the [[rotgut]] liquor supplied by the rest of New York's underworld.

At the suggestion of Rothstein, the Broadway Mob bought interests in several popular speakeasies and nightclubs which would lead to purchasing valuable real estate in Manhattan. Its operations were eventually absorbed into the criminal syndicate under Luciano and Lansky, following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.

==Further reading==
*Sifakis, Carl. ''The Mafia Encyclopedia''. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. {{ISBN|0-8160-5694-3}}
*Sifakis, Carl. ''The Encyclopedia of American Crime''. New York: Facts on File Inc., 2005. {{ISBN|0-8160-4040-0}}

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[[Category:Genovese crime family]]
[[Category:American Mafia crews]]
[[Category:Arnold Rothstein]]
[[Category:Lucky Luciano]]