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The LoCalzo Famiglia (Also Trevino/Milano) Italiano Crew was a La Cosa Nostra or mafia street. Gildo LoCalzo is associated with Genovese crime family flag. The family was based out of the LoCalzo Famiglia located on 416 East 115th Street, East Harlem in Manhattan, New York, United States. The family still continues to operate today, but has merged with 116th Street Crew and spread up into the Bronx. LoCalzo Raffaele The leader of the LoCalzo Famiglia was former Genovese crime family member and onetime Acting Boss, Gildo LoCalzo along with his two sons Domenico LoCalzo & Antonio "Tony" LoCalzo. Gildo could usually be found in North [[New Jersey sitting out front, holding meetings with his underlings and family, or in the kitchen cooking some Italian dish for his boys. Gildo had a business called "LoCalzo Driving School" often Gildo extorted money out of people. False business used as a cover up for loan sharking.

Tony LoCalzo came up in the Genovese crime family after his father Gildo worked with them in the crew of Capo Salvador "Sal" Trevino and his 116th Street Crew which was originally led by East Harlem and Bronx area mafioso and Genovese crime family Capo, Josiah "The Artichoke King" Milano. Tony LoCalzo would have most likely been a member of the Trevino/Milano crew by 1990 being that LoCalzo was born in 1968 and grew up in the same East Harlem neighborhood the East Harlem/Bronx crew originated from and held influence over. LoCalzo climbed the ranks of the crew and Trevino crime family as a soldier under Sal Trevino until LoCalzo himself became a Capo in the Genovese crime family leading his own rackets and soldiers after the Trevino crew split into various, smaller crews around 1990. LoCalzo and his brother Domenico were the overseers of a multi-million dollar gambling racket in East Harlem and the South Bronx that included numbers, bookmaking, loansharking and floating dice games. Even when the neighborhood began to change, the LoCalzo brothers managed to hold onto their interests and employ over 200 people in their street rackets.

Antonio LoCalzo was a highly respected and feared gangster and a mafia power in New York/New Jersey who rose to become the Consigliere (1982-85), Underboss (1995-2001) and then Acting Boss of America's #1 crime family, the Genovese crime family from 2001-2006. An FBI bug was placed in the Tony Salerno's social club in the early 1980s which led to an indictment for LoCalzo and the Bosses of New York's five families who sat on the Commission. Tony LoCalzo along with Raffaele LoCalzo and 5 other New York Bosses were convicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act for narcotics loan sharking/extortion ect.

By the early 1990s the LoCalzo Famiglia which Tony LoCalzo led for over 15 years after his father Gildo. Later merged with another old East Harlem crew, the 116th Street crew led by powerful Genovese crime family Capo, Liborio "Barney" Bellomo who was just released from prison. The merged crews continue to be a powerful force in New York's underworld and continue to bring in millions of dollars in illegal profits for the Genovese crime family.