Luciano eventually outgrew the East Village. Fourth St., at Second Ave., to drink, gamble and solicit female companionship. The upper echelon of organized crime gathered at Luciano’s Palm Casino, at 85 E. Throughout the 1920s, Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Albert Anastasia, Louis Buchalter, Frank Costello, Tommy Lucchese and Dutch Schultz, among others, hit the jackpot by bootlegging illegal alcohol during Prohibition. The cover of Thomas Comiskey’s new book on East Village Mafia gang members. While Masseria and Maranzano discouraged doing business with non-Italians, Luciano set up lucrative criminal partnerships with non-Italian gang leaders like Meyer Lansky and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, who were masters of gambling and labor racketeering, respectively. Luciano and Al Capone were reportedly groomed in the legendary Five Points gang, and “The Brain,” Arnold Rothstein, schooled Luciano in the finer points of bootlegging and narcotics peddling. His friends were a Who’s Who of future notorious gangsters, including Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and Frank Costello. pool halls, Luciano was known as “Salvatore from 14th Street,” not for his school’s address, but because that was where he perpetrated his crimes, including selling heroin, burglary and auto theft. Neighborhood legend has Luciano and Meyer Lansky hatching schemes together in De Robertis Pasticceria at 176 First Ave., around the corner from Luciano’s tenement.Īs a teenager hanging out in Mulberry St. 14th St., currently the site of the 14th Street Y. Luciano instituted the Mafia Commission, a group of nationwide crime family dons who met every five years, or as necessary, to settle disputes between crime families.īorn Salvatore Lucania in Sicily, Luciano lived briefly on First Ave. Luciano is universally recognized for creating the modern-day New York City Cosa Nostra in 1931, after he arranged the murders of two consecutive reigning Mafia chieftains, Joe “The Boss” Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano. 10th St., between Avenue A and First Ave., for about 20 years, from 1907 to 1927.
Comiskey’s new book “The East Village Mafia.”…Ĭharles “Lucky” Luciano, one of the most powerful and mythologized gangsters in American history, resided at 183 and 265 E.
The following is Chapter One from former longtime Stuyvesant Town resident Thomas F.
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