Issue 34 (November 2024) of Informer has been released and is widely available in magazine, book and electronic formats. The issue, titled ...

Informer's October 2023 issue, entitled "Gangsters of New York's Lower East Side," includes twelve feature articles and e...

In Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz , author Alan Geik tells of his family's connection to noteworthy Jewish-American gan...

 Debby Applegate Excerpt from Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (Doubleday, 2021)   From Chapter 6 - "Thumbs...

Press release: Chilling and thought-provoking, John Oller's Rogues' Gallery (available September 21, 2021, in hardcover and ebook f...

Hasn't been seen since 1962 New York Daily News On this date in 1962... Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo, sixty-two-year...

New York Sun On this date in 1912... Aniello Prisco, leader of a Neapolitan "Black Hand" extortion band based in East Harlem...

The 1000-plus page memoirs of Mafia turncoat Joseph Valachi are valuable source material for organized crime historians. The manuscript, e...

“Are you hurt buddy? Are you hurt?” George Lee, twenty-six-year-old over-night cashier for the Public Service Coordinated Transport, was...