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Gerard Pappa, also known as "Gerry" and "Pappa Bear" (c. June 19, 1944, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn – July 10, 1980, in Borough Park, Brooklyn), was a soldier in the Genovese crime family. Known as a hitman and a major narcotics dealer, Pappa was widely feared for his violent tendencies, which directly contributed to his own murder in 1980.
Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd Avenue (Bay Parkway) and on the southwest by 86th Street.
Gangsters 2: Vendetta is a real-time strategy video game, developed by Hothouse Creations, published by Eidos Interactive, and released for Microsoft Windows in June 2001. . The sequel to Gangsters: Organized Crime, and set during the final years of Prohibition, the game focuses on a story of the son of a local mob boss, who goes on a vendetta against the men who ordered their assassination ...
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins (also spelled as Yusuf Hawkins, March 19, 1973 – August 23, 1989) was a 16-year-old black teenager from the neighborhood of East New York, [1] in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, who was shot to death on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian-American working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn.
South Brooklyn Boys (abbreviated as SBB) was a famous New York City street gang.In the 1950s, various Italian-American gangs were formed in South Brooklyn, New York City, and came together under the moniker of "South Brooklyn Boys" sometime around the 1950s.
Nvidia stock led gains among the “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks to start the new year after a group-wide sell-off in the last days of 2024.Shares of the AI chipmaker rose 4.5% Friday after ...
Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Thursday, January 23, 2025The New York Times
Boriello grew up in South Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by mobsters from the Gambino, Genovese, and Colombo crime families. His younger brother Stevie was a close friend of neighborhood gangsters Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Albert Gallo and Frank Illiano, and after Joey's murder, Stevie was instrumental in securing the crew's South Brooklyn rackets.