Manhattan Italian emigration. Lucky Luciano established Cosa Nostra in Manhattan, forming alliances with other criminal enterprises, including the Jewish mob, led by Meyer Lansky, the leading Jewish gangster of that period. From 1920–1933, Prohibition helped create a thriving black market in liquor, upon which the Mafia was quick to capitalize. As in the whole of New York City, Manhattan experienced a sharp increase in crime during the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1990, crime in Manhattan has plummeted in all categories tracked by the CompStat profile. A borough that saw 503 murders in 1990 has seen a drop of nearly 88% to
Ida Lansky Ida Lansky Ida G. Lansky ("née" Leranbaum 1910 – November 27, 1997) was a Canadian-born American photographer. She was most active between 1954 and 1960, when she stopped publicly exhibiting her work and chose to study library science. Lansky is known as an important pioneer of Modernist photography in Texas, known as Texas Bauhaus. Lansky was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1910. She received a BS in public health nursing from New York University in 1942. Her photography career took place roughly at the same time she studied visual art at Texas Woman's University from 1954 to 1959. A major