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[quote=bert post_id=114724 time=1563031764 user_id=5933]
Bernow is the correct spelling, I got it wrong.
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Bernow is the correct spelling, I got it wrong.

[quote=bert post_id=114704 time=1562993355 user_id=5933]
He was a big Jewish wiseguy in the era of 1950=1973, was active mostly in midtown Manhattan. Shylocking and moving jewelry was his thing, the only write up I could find on him is Life Magazine, in their article on Joe Namath and his nightclub he was forced to give up.


https://books.google.com/books?id=e08EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&dq=new+york+magazine+namath+gangsters&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK362wirHjAhVBVc0KHYRNAdIQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=new%20york%20magazine%20namath%20gangsters&f=false


Does anyone else know anything about him? I know he had a partner named Herbie, which is not much to go on. I think Herbie died in prison.
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Do you mean Harry ”Bernow”?...... I think you spelt it backwards! He was an old-time Jewish hoodlum. Around a lot of the old Jewish set downtown, garment district etc

He was a big Jewish wiseguy in the era of 1950=1973, was active mostly in midtown Manhattan. Shylocking and moving jewelry was his thing, the only write up I could find on him is Life Magazine, in their article on Joe Namath and his nightclub he was forced to give up.


https://books.google.com/books?id=e08EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&dq=new+york+magazine+namath+gangsters&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK362wirHjAhVBVc0KHYRNAdIQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=new%20york%20magazine%20namath%20gangsters&f=false


Does anyone else know anything about him? I know he had a partner named Herbie, which is not much to go on. I think Herbie died in prison.