The DeCavalcante crime family is a brutal, and much-feared, Italian-American organized crime syndicate, that controls organized crime in Elizabeth, New Jersey with an iron fist, and some surrounding areas in the state, despite operating on the other side of the Hudson River in New York, within the nationwide, extremely powerful Organized Crime Empire known as the American Mafia, (The American Mob), (Italian-American Mafia), (Italian Mob), (Italian Mafia), (The Mob), (The Mafia), (American Cosa Nostra), (Cosa Nostra), (or La Cosa Nostra). The DeCavalcante crime family maintains strong relations with the Five Families of New York, the DeCavalcante crime family works for the Five Families, and the Five Families control the DeCavalcante crime family with an iron fist.