#8 feb.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lottie Coll, the wife of slain gangster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, breaks down in tears on the shoulder of her lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, in Brooklyn, February 8, 1932. Originally a member of Dutch Schultz's gang, he later broke away and the two became vicious enemies. (At one point, Schultz walked into a Bronx police station and offered "a house in Westchester" to whoever killed Coll.) But Coll's killer was actually Owney Madden, boss of the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob.

Photo: Associated Press

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Part of the fuselage of the American Airlines plane that crashed into the East River on Feb. 1 is pulled out of the river, February 8, 1959, during recovery operations. As of that date, 33 bodies had been recovered from the crash.

Photo: Hans von Nolde for the AP