1929 in New York during prohibition, Don Leonesi, your father and mafia patriarch, has died and it is now up to you to take his place. Reigning initially on the territory of Staten Island, extend your control over Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan by opposing the four other major mafia families of New York: the Calzaretti, Ferocini, Barese and the most dangerous Distefano. Make prosper bootlegging alcohol by building illegal clubs and casinos, bribe the Politics, the Police and the Press and use the good strategy to ward off competing families and gain total control of the city.