it was the home base of the third largest la cosa nostra in the country, led by raymond patriarca, the mob boss of the new england mafia. Providence is basically a city of two. a state police detective scanned a federal hill streetscape one night in 1982 and grappled with what he saw. It was the chief justice of the rhode island supreme. the focus of the tour is to learn about the mafia personalities of the 20th century in the italian section of providence (federal hill).
