On this day, Sept. 10, in 1931, Charles “Lucky” Luciano took over the New York crime world with an orchestrated series of hits, culminating with the murder of the “Boss of Bosses” Salvatore Maranzano.

Luciano arranged for a gang of hitmen to pose as government tax agents to enter Maranzano’s offices in the prestigious Helmsley Building on Park Avenue. Three men stabbed Maranzano and another shot him.