The Mafia On Pleasant Avenue: Fat Tony Salerno

Welcome to the Mafia on Pleasant Avenue an excerpt from the book "Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was" that tells the story of Italian immigrants surviving in the slums of Pleasant Avenue on New York City's East -side. Told thru the eyes of an Italian-American boy growing up during he great depression. From his early days as a young boy growing up on the real streets of little Italy to the origins of the real Italian mob ,,, READ MORE CLICK HERE

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They terrorized New York City in the 1970s. A rogue sect of Mob hitmen known as the East Harlem Purple Gang emerged as a violent force closely linked to the New York Mafia’s Five Families. As law enforcement struggled to track down the killers, the Purple Gang’s vicious tactics became a media obsession. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgR_rbgr13d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The East Harlem Purple Gang located on Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem 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.

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Fat Tony Salerno

Salerno was born and raised on Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem, New York. In his youth, he became involved in gambling, numbers, loan sharking and protection rackets for the Luciano family, which later came to be known as the Genovese family. Salerno was a member of the 116th Street Crew, headed by Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola. Salerno climbed the family ranks by controlling a possible million-dollar-a-year numbers racket operation in Harlem and a major loan sharking operation. In 1948, Coppola fled to Florida to escape murder charges, and Salerno took over the crew.

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#TRUESTORY On August 18, 1970, Squitieri shot garment cutter Desiderio Caban five times on a street in East Harlem. Two New York Police Department (NYPD) officers heard the shots and chased Squitieri by car for six blocks until Squitieri finally stopped. Getting out of his car, Squitieri approached the officers and said “Don’t worry about it, he’s only shot in the arm. Let me go; the boys will take care of you.”

A week later mobster Alphonse Sisca met with one of the officers and offered a $5,000 bribe to the policemen. They accepted the deal and removed Squitieri’s name from the crime report for the Caban killing. Later on, after the bribery was discovered, the officers were indicted and Squitieri became a fugitive from justice. In January 1972, Squitieri surrendered to authorities. #MafiaHistory #OnThisDay #DiedOnThisDay (at Gaetano’s Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7bheErHZO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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If you are interested in the Italian mafia and the history of organized crime in America, then you should check out the book “Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was” by Daniel Golio. The book tells the story of the author growing up in the slums of Pleasant Avenue in the 1930s and ‘40s, and he describes the real streets of Little Italy and the origins of the real Italian mob. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into a bygone era and gives a firsthand account of a world that is often shrouded in mystery. - Click Here

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Fat Tony Salerno: Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was

Excerpt from Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was

Back then all the way up to 1988, Fat tony was the boss of the Genovese crime family and the second most powerful mafia figure in New York, next to Paul Castellano, the head of the Gambino crime family.

Years later in 1988 Fat Tony Salerno was convicted in in a scheme to allocate contracts and obtain payoffs for constructing the concrete superstructures of 16 Manhattan buildings, including the Jacob J. Javits Convention Center and the Trump Plaza. He got 70 years for that. And other 100 years for operating the "commission" that ruled the Mafia throughout the United States.

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All in all Fat Tony received 170 years in prison. He died of complications from a stroke in 1992. Upon his death, Fortune magazine named Salerno the richest and most powerful mobster in America.

Born and raised in East Harlem on Pleasant Avenue, Fat Tony had his eulogy at Our Lady of Mount Carmel church on 115th Street in 1992.

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Father Peter Rofrano claimed that “God walked with him.” I don’t know about that, maybe God walked with Fat Tony Salerno because he wanted to make sure Fat Tony got on the downtown train to the other place. He was buried where most Pleasant Avenue associates are buried, in the Old Saint Raymond’s cemetery in the Bronx, New York . . . .