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  • Frankie Yale: The Brooklyn Don Who Taught Capone the Game

    The underworld in 1920s New York was fragmented and ferociously competitive. He arranged for shipments to land in New York and ensured their safe passage westward. It was the first recorded use of a Thompson submachine gun in a New York gangland killing. The Westies: Inside New York’s Irish Mob. St. Martin’s Press, 1990. Eig, Jonathan. The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York Mafia, 1891–1931. Routledge, 2008.

  • Abe Reles: The Notorious Hitman of Murder, Inc. And His Mysterious Death

    York. In one attempt to eliminate Reles, the Shapiros lured him and Goldstein to East New York, only to ambush However, the New York authorities soon closed in on Murder, Inc., and Reles found himself facing charges Turkus and Sid Feder, Murder, Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate  (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1951 The New York Times , “Abe Reles, Murder Aide, Dies in Fall,” November 12, 1941.

  • When Nazis ‘Played’ in Madison Square Garden In 1939: A Dark Chapter in American History

    A New York City mounted policeman outside Madison Square Garden during a German American Bund meeting A Protest in the Heart of New York While 20,000 Bund members celebrated Nazism inside, the streets of Men struggle with a protester at New York's Madison Square Garden on Feb. 20, 1939, during a pro-Nazi The New York Times reported that the streets were so packed that, at one point, the orchestra from a The New York Police Department, anticipating violence, had deployed 1,700 officers around Madison Square

  • Alfred Cheney Johnston and the Artistry Behind the Ziegfeld Follies' Golden Era

    His studio, tucked away in New York City, was a revolving door of dancers, actresses, and ingénues, all Alfred Cheney Johnston was born on 8th April, 1885, in Westchester County, New York, the son of a bank York at eighteen before transferring to the National Academy of Design, where he studied painting and He first found work as a retoucher at the Sarony photographic studios in New York before striking out New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org 4.

  • The Abernathy Brothers: The Wildly True Adventures of America’s Youngest Trailblazers

    By the time they were done, they had crossed the continent on horseback, driven a car from New York to Oklahoma on roads that barely existed, and ridden an Indian motorcycle from Oklahoma to New York and The New York Times covered the journey. Bud and Temple arrived in New York, met Roosevelt, and rode in the parade. Oklahoma to New York by Motorcycle, 1913 The final recorded adventure came in 1913.

  • The Men Who Built the Sky: The Untold Story of the Empire State Building’s Fearless Workers

    But while much has been written about the race to the sky between New York’s developers, it’s the ironworkers “The Best Open-Air Show in Town” The New York Times at the time described the construction site as “the The New York Daily News estimated 14 fatalities, while the socialist publication The New Masses exaggerated New York’s skyscraper boom had reached a saturation point, and for a time, the building was nicknamed 1950, allowing television and radio signals to be broadcast from the tower, bringing the building a new

  • ‘Marlon Brando Broke My Jaw’: Ron Galella, The Paparazzo Who Defined the Celebrity Snapshot

    shape the modern idea of celebrity, capturing unguarded moments on the streets and in the nightclubs of New York and Los Angeles. In 1973, Galella was following the actor to a restaurant in New York’s Chinatown when Brando snapped. After years of relentless pursuit, which included him tailing her across the streets of New York, she York.

  • The Story of the 'Titanic Orphans': Michel and Edmond Navratil

    When the Carpathia pulled into New York carrying the survivors of the Titanic, two small boys stepped The White Star Line arranged her passage to New York, and on 16 May 1912, over a month after the sinking Margaret Hays, the woman who'd looked after the boys in New York, stayed in touch. The pair were reunited with mother Marcelle when she sailed to New York City after seeing the newspaper A West Side Woman's Devotion to Two Nameless "Titanic Orphans" — Ephemeral New York

  • How Edward Hopper “Storyboarded” His Painting Nighthawks

    In some ways, it appeared almost hyper-realistic of New York to be a part of New York itself. For further insights into the captivating storyboarding go here see Nighthawks at Art News and see

  • Joseph Colombo Sr and the Paradox of a Public Mafia Boss

    On the late morning of 28th June, 1971, thousands of people gathered at Columbus Circle in New York City York. York. He became the first American born boss of a New York crime family. His elevation puzzled rivals. (right), picketing the FBI headquarters in New York as part of a 1971 Italian-American Civil Rights League

  • Rodney Alcala's Appearance on 'The Dating Game' and the Haunting Contents of his Storage Locker.

    York; Georgia Wixted, a nurse who was sexually assaulted and strangled in her Malibu apartment; Charlotte York. Despite his high-profile status as a fugitive, Alcala managed to flee to New York and began living under an alias, where he worked as a typesetter for The New York Times . Shortly thereafter, he was sentenced to an additional 25 years to life for the New York murders of Ellen

  • A Great Day in Harlem: Capturing the Heartbeat of Jazz

    jazz and photography took place at 17 East 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenue, in Harlem, New York. The photograph earned Kane his first Art Directors Club of New York gold medal for photography, cementing Many musicians had moved to other parts of New York, pursuing opportunities in more affluent neighborhoods After all, that’s where jazz started when it came to New York’ – Art Kane Dizzy Gillespie crossing the

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