by newera_212 » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:16 pm
I don't recall what the initial connection was, but D'Arco was around some of these guys when he was coming up. I believe him and his wife got married pretty young and moved from Brooklyn to the building in the city that his wife grew up in, and he gravitated to the East Village/LES/Mott Street scene and knew Davey Petilllo, Chalootz, etc. pretty well. Between that and his uncle, he was in a pretty unique position to learn a lot about LCN history and witness the changing of the guards and generation shift first hand. Pretty cool
Re: Little Italy, the old 4th Ward / LES, East Village: I love how much stuff was going on in a pretty small geographic area. Just tons of guys all packed in downtown. At least 4(?) of the families operating there? Outsiders and even working associates not knowing or even mixing up who belonged where. Way before my time but downtown must have been a site to see back then
I don't recall what the initial connection was, but D'Arco was around some of these guys when he was coming up. I believe him and his wife got married pretty young and moved from Brooklyn to the building in the city that his wife grew up in, and he gravitated to the East Village/LES/Mott Street scene and knew Davey Petilllo, Chalootz, etc. pretty well. Between that and his uncle, he was in a pretty unique position to learn a lot about LCN history and witness the changing of the guards and generation shift first hand. Pretty cool
Re: Little Italy, the old 4th Ward / LES, East Village: I love how much stuff was going on in a pretty small geographic area. Just tons of guys all packed in downtown. At least 4(?) of the families operating there? Outsiders and even working associates not knowing or even mixing up who belonged where. Way before my time but downtown must have been a site to see back then