Even the movie’s title is a nod to the actual social club, Alto Knights, where mafia members could meet safely. However, several facts were omitted or slightly glamorized for commercial appeal.

Robert De Niro stars as two opposing mobsters in the film. Named after a New York social club frequented in the 1950s by the Luciano and Genovese crime families, "The Alto Knights" hits theaters ...

but reveal little more than the time they spent together at the infamous mob hangout The Alto Knights Social Club. Little about their dynamic is ever illuminated, no matter where and when we meet ...

These Italian immigrants became friends as young men, hanging around the Alto Knights Social Club in 1910s New York City. Associates of the notorious Lucky Luciano, both made their way in the city ...

From there, the story flashes back about 50 years, recounting in rapid-fire fashion how young Frank and Vito befriended each other in New York, where they hung out at the Alto Knights Social Club ...

All of this takes place in the famous headquarters of The Alto Knights Social Club. Robert De Niro plays both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in The Alto Knights, a movie about the lives of two ...

This seems to be the majority of their relationship. “The Alto Knights,” named after a local club that never figures into the story except as a brief, perfunctory anecdote, sleepwalks ...

Set mostly in the 1950s and taking its name from a defunct social club once frequented by the Mafia in New York’s Little Italy, “The Alto Knights” follows the rivalry between Frank Costello ...

And so we learn only in passing about the boys’ turn-of-the-century New York upbringing; their days at the Alto Knights Social Club, a hub of gangster activity; and their early entry into the ...

De Niro contributed a bit of his own experience to the film as well. The Alto Knights was the social club where Frank and Genovese socialized as teenagers, a place where De Niro spent time at in ...