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It was the founding location of the Genovese crime family, one of the Five Families that dominated organized crime in New York City. [18] This includes the current 116th Street Crew of the Genovese family. During the 1970s, Italian East Harlem was also home to the Italian-American drug gang and murder-for-hire crew known as the East Harlem ...
The Giglio ("lily" in Italian) is an 80-foot-tall, three-ton statue which is carried and danced through the streets of East Harlem by over 100 members of the society. [citation needed] The first Giglio Feast on 106th street in East Harlem started approximately in 1908. [citation needed] Giocchino Vivolo is credited for being the first Capo ...
Salerno based the crew in the Palma Boys Social Club located at 416 East 115th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, the 116th Street Crew had absorbed and initiated many former members of the vicious East Harlem Purple Gang , an Italian-American murder for hire and drug trafficking gang operating in 1970s Italian ...
Patsy's Pizzeria was founded in what used to be the predominantly Italian neighborhood of East Harlem, or Italian Harlem, in 1933 by Pasquale "Patsy" Lanceri. [1] When it opened it was one of New York's earliest pizzerias along with Lombardi's, Totonno's and John's. [3] Patsy's claims to have originated the idea of selling pizza by the slice. [4]
The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang and organized crime group in New York City consisting of Italian-American hit-men and heroin dealers who were semi-independent from the Italian-American Mafia and, according to federal prosecutors, dominated heroin distribution in East Harlem, Italian Harlem, and the Bronx during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Rao's (/ ˈ r eɪ oʊ z /) [citation needed] is an Italian-American restaurant founded in 1896. It is located at 455 East 114th Street, on the corner of Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem (or Italian Harlem), New York City. Rao's has a sister restaurant in Los Angeles. [1] [2]
Patsy Grimaldi – who helped launch a coal-fire, brick-oven pizza craze by flipping thin-crust pies at his DUMBO joint overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge – has died of natural causes. He was 93.
The Morello crime family (Italian:) was one of the earliest crime families to be established in the United States and New York City.The Morellos were based in Manhattan's Italian Harlem and eventually gained dominance in the Italian underworld by defeating the rival Neapolitan Camorra of Brooklyn.