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New York, New York is a 1977 American romantic musical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Earl Mac Rauch and Mardik Martin, based on a story by Rauch. John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote several songs for the film, including "New York, New York" which became a global phenomenon. A tribute to Scorsese's home town of New York City, the film stars Liza Minnelli and Robert De ...
This article is about past and inactive members who have been killed, died or became informants of the Lucchese crime family. For active members, see List of Lucchese crime family mobsters.
Henry Hill Jr. was born on June 11, 1943, in the Manhattan borough of New York City to Henry Hill Sr., an Irish-American electrician and the son of a coal miner, and Carmela Costa, an Italian immigrant of Sicilian descent.
Howard Beach racial attack. Michael Griffith (March 2, 1963 – December 20, 1986) was a 23-year-old black man who was killed on December 20, 1986, in Howard Beach, in Queens, New York City, in a racially motivated attack. [1] Griffith and two other black men were set upon by a group of white youths outside a pizza parlor.
Murder of Yusef Hawkins. 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 ...
Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.
View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 is a color photograph by German photographer Thomas Hoepker. It shows five people sitting on the banks of the East River in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn while a cloud of smoke rises over Manhattan in the background.
Roy DeMeo was born on September 7, 1940, in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He came from a working-class Italian immigrant family originating from Formia in the region of Lazio. [5] [6] The fourth of five children of Antonio Joseph "Anthony" DeMeo, a laundry company deliveryman, [7] and Eleanor DeMeo ( née Colarullo), a housewife, Roy graduated from James Madison High ...