An Irish mobster, smoking a cigarette.
The Westies are an Irish-American criminal organization that operated in Hell's Kitchen in the 1920s, having control over the neighborhood for years as the strongest gang. However, in the later 1920s, the Cuneo crime family grew in power and Carmine Cuneo, Marco Cuneo and Luciano Fabbri conducted a mob war against them that whittled them down to almost nothing. As of 2013, they have 200 members.