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
Greg Lansky known outside the industry for referring to adult entertainment as art. Lansky was born in 1982 in Paris, France. He discovered pornography at age fourteen during a family vacation in Saint-Tropez in the south of France. Lansky later attended marketing school in Paris and worked for various TV networks, yet pornography remained his main passion. Lansky was fascinated by "Playboy Magazine" and "Penthouse Magazine". Then he became fascinated by adult movies. "I just loved the fact that it wasn't politically correct," he says. "It was this aspect of society that everyone loves and worships in private, but in public it