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Gangsters of New York's Lower East Side: Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement, October 2023 Kindle Edition

by Thomas Hunt (Author), Justin Cascio (Author), Patrick Downey (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
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Journalists Craig Thompson and Allen Raymond in 1940 wrote that “...the lower East Side of Manhattan in the first twenty years of the twentieth century was the greatest breeding ground for gunmen and racketeers, since risen to eminence, that this country has ever seen...”
Conditions in the pre-Prohibition twentieth century Lower East Side certainly fueled an explosion in gangs and racketeering. Such underworld giants as Meyer Lansky, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter and Salvatore “Charlie Luciano” Lucania were products of that overcrowded and hard environment. But that was just a small part of the area’s underworld history.
In this issue, Informer presents a collection of articles representing the seedy and bloody gangland history of the Lower East Side. Material spans many decades of Manhattan’s history. Related article subjects:
  • End of the Whyos gang.
  • Historic Photo: Bandits' Roost.
  • John H. McGurk and the Bowery's "Suicide Hall."
  • The death and life of hoodlum/hero Monk Eastman.
  • NYC's first Mafia boss? Nicola Taranto
  • Italian gang chief with an Irish name: Paul Kelly.
  • Sai Wing Mock and the New York "Tong Wars."
  • Frank Lanza's New York firms may have been Mafia fronts.
  • In search of "Johnny Spanish" Mistretta
  • Racketeering future was molded in young Meyer Lansky's neighborhood.
  • "Death Avenue": Second Avenue, 1910-1924.
  • 1964 narcotics report included mobster bios.
In addition, the issue includes these articles:
  • New facts about 1928 Mafia conventioneers.
  • "Bill the Butcher" wasn't from the Five Points.
  • New and recent true crime book releases.
  • Looking back from 2023: 150, 100, 75, 50, 5 years ago.

Contributors to this Informer issue: Thomas Hunt, Justin Cascio, Patrick Downey, Michael O'Haire, Steve Turner, Matt Ghiglieri.
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    Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement
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    October 1, 2023
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CH26LB4L
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 1, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 101718 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 459 pages

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  1. Thomas Hunt

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    Tom Hunt edits and publishes the journal, "Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement," the Writers of Wrongs (writersofwrongs.com) blog of crime historians and the American Mafia history site (mafiahistory.us). He moderates several online forums and has written/co-written articles for various publications.

    He authored 2016's "Wrongly Executed? The Long-forgotten Context of Charles Sberna's 1939 Electrocution." He partnered with Michael A. Tona in the two-volume 2013 historical biography, "DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime." He partnered with Martha Macheca Sheldon for "Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia," silver medalist in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards. He contributed a history of the U.S. Mafia for "Mafia: The Necessary Reference to Organized Crime," published by Millennium House in 2010. He has contributed research and editing to many other historical works.

    Born to an Italian-Irish family in the Bronx, NY, he attended Catholic schools in the Bronx and Danbury, CT. He earned his bachelor's degree in history and journalism from Charter Oak State College in CT. Longtime residents of New Milford, CT, he and his wife have lived in Whiting, VT, since 2012. They have three grown children.

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  2. Justin Cascio

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    Justin Cascio believes the Mafia is organized like a traditional extended family. On his website, Mafia Genealogy, and in his contributions to Informer Journal, he uses genealogy to find new perspectives on the criminal organization's history, methods, and personnel. His first book, IN OUR BLOOD: THE MAFIA FAMILIES OF CORLEONE, is the culmination of years of research into the Mafia and mafiosi of his ancestral hometown in Sicily.

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