Manhattan Mafia Guide
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Authors: Eric Ferrara
Mulberry Street, 1900.
Detroit Publishing Company, Library of Congress
.
Mulberry Street today.
Courtesy of Shirley Dluginski
.
Published by The History Press
Charleston, SC 29403
Copyright © 2011 by Eric Ferrara
All rights reserved
First published 2011
e-book edition 2012
ISBN 978.1.61423.351.0
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ferrara, Eric.
Manhattan Mafia guide : hits, homes and headquarters / Eric Ferrara.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
print edition ISBN 978-1-60949-306-6
1. Mafia--New York (State)--New York--History. 2. Criminals--New York (State)--New York--Biography. 3. Crime scenes--New York (State)--New York--Guidebooks. 4. Hiding places--New York (State)--New York--Guidebooks. 5. New York State (N.Y.)--Guidebooks. I. Title.
HV6452.N72M3445 2011
364.1’06097471--dc23
2011021478
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CONTENTS
Foreword, by Arthur Nash
Preface
I. P
ROFILES
Attardi, Alphonso
Biondo, Joseph
Buia, Angelo Anthony
Buia, Matildo
Cataldo, Joseph
Cinquegrana, Benedetto
Ciraulo, Vincenzo James
Costello, Frank
D’Aquila, Salvatore
Dellacroce, Aniello
D’Ercole, Joseph
DeFeo, Peter
Dioguardi, John
Di Palermo, Charles
Di Palermo, Joseph
Di Palermo, Peter
Di Pietro, Carli
Eboli, Thomas Vito Michael
Embarrato, Alfred Joseph
Evola, Natale
Farulla, Rosario Ario
Galante, Carmine
Garofalo, Frank
Genovese, Vito
Gernie, Joseph
Gigante, Vincent
Ianniello, Matthew
Kelly, Paul
Lanza, Joseph
Lisi, Anthony
Luciano, Charlie
Mari, Frank
Masseria, Giuseppe
Matranga, Pasquale
Mauro, Vincent
Mirra, Anthony
Morello, Giuseppe
Petillo, David Silvio
Polizzano, Ralph
Presinzano, Frank
Quartiero, Lawrence
Rao, Joseph
Rao, Vincent
Ruggiero, Benjamin
Salerno, Anthony Michael
Siano, Fiore
Sorge, Santo
Speciale, Salvatore
Stoppelli, John
Strollo, Anthony
Tourine, Charles, Sr
.
Tramaglino, Victor
Tuminaro, Angelo
II. S
OCIAL
C
LUBS AND
H
ANGOUTS
Alberti Baking Company
Alto Knights Social Club
Bari Restaurant Supply
Bus Stop Luncheonette
Caffe Dante
Caffe Palermo
Caffe Roma
Camelot Supper Club
Carmello’s
Celano’s Garden
CIA Club
Club 82
Copacabana
Cuomo Cheese Corp
Da Nico Restaurant
De Robertis Pasticceria
Fretta’s Meat Market
Gatsby’s
Gold Key Club
Hawaiian Moonlighters Social Club
Hippopotamus
Holiday Bar
Holiday Inn Bar & Restaurant
House of Chan
Jay’s Bar
Jilly’s
John’s Restaurant
Joy’s Restaurant
Knotty Pine Social Club
La Donna Rosa Restaurant
Lombardi’s Restaurant
Longchamp’s Restaurant
Luna’s Restaurant
Luxor Baths
Manfredi’s Restuarant
Milady’s Bar
Musical Club
Napoli e Notte Café
Palma Boys Social Club
Panel Social Club
Parnell Social Club
Patrissy’s Restaurant
Ravenite Social Club
Reno Bar
Shoreview Social Club
Skyline Motor Inn
Spring Valley Pleasure Club
Squeeze Inn
Stage Bar
Sugar Bowl
Thompson Street Social Club
Tony Pastor’s Club
Triangle Social Club
Vivere Lounge
III. G
ANGLAND
H
ITS
Alfano, Pietro
Anastasia, Albert
Baretto, Gregario
Bilotti, Thomas
Bonanno, Joseph
Briguglio, Salvatore
Castellano, Paul
Coll, Vincent
Colombo, Joseph, Sr
.
D’Aquila, Salvatore
DiBono, Louis
Gallina, Gino
Gallo, Joey
Giannini, Eugenio
Giordano, John
Latini, Bruno
Luciano, Charlie
Madonia, Benedetto
Maranzano, Salvatore
Masseria, Giuseppe
Morello, Giuseppe
Persico, Alphonse
Schiff, Irwin
Sliwa, Curtis
Terranova, Vincenzo
Tresca, Carlo
Valenti, Umberto “Rocco”
Verrazano, Giuseppe
Wolosky, David
Appendix. Maps and Charts
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
FOREWORD
USA OR BUST
That life is all gone now,” I’m frequently reminded by motion-picture actor Butch “the Hat” Aquilino, recalling the rough-and-tumble schemes of mobs and men who once monopolized the five boroughs. “There’s nothing left.”
A native of Mott Street, Butch the Hat has been a fixture of New York City’s Little Italy district long enough to remember Don Vito Genovese strolling its concrete sidewalks like a bloodthirsty pope, and even long enough to have run the occasional errand for an elderly Samuel Levine—nicknamed “Red” on account of henna-colored hair and a big round face full of freckles—who in decades past was an iron-fisted enforcer for the Brooklyn Combination and who, or so it’s been committed to Judaica, refused to commit an act of homicide during Shabbat,
even if you paid him
.