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thx ridgewood ive always been really interested in Ridgewood/glendale and immediate surrounding areas.

Ridgewood79- any info or stories about that area would be greatly appreciated as that area is so foreign to me.

Dyker/bhurst etc and areas of manhattan are what im familiar w. Thankfully BK is behind me for quite a few yrs.

i feel happy there on thankssgiving and xmas though!

also related to bonventres jack and nino, Phil and Anthony navarra his brothers are fillipo and joe and in Italy his cousin is rosa calabro who is married to mob boss calabro ( dinos cousin) and Giuseppe pizzo a cousin as well, there's definitely more

6 hours long😬 fuck that :lol:

This was on Gunsmoke the Don two nights ago

Where did he say that?

One thing he said recently that stood out to me is that Cicale was actively poaching guys left and right from Baldo Amato's circle after Basciano was elected boss. Cicale didn't have a good enough reputation in the Bronx to recruit guys even from his own neighborhood. Basciano favored earners at the time, and this is how Montagna ended up with the Bronx Bonnanos.

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what are they wrong about? i dont know shit about the sixties and before
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For me it’s when they regurgitate stuff that you could pretty much just read on Wikipedia. The shows that go further with actual documents, added context strike me as an actual history show rather than just telling the same shit we all heard before

must admit, humble, nice , bright guy

What was the story w howard santos who drove jojo corozzo? i know trucchio saw him mtg fed in qns. FBI blunder for sure

Fiordilino strikes me as the most honest of all the co operators out there. He doesn't bragg about the past or try to make himself a bigger deal than he was. He wasn't an earner, he was a thug. He also admits to the fact that he wanted to commit a murder to prove himself capable.

He's also the only co operator from the other side that we have right now. As well as coming from a true Mafia lineage going way back. He's a unique source for sure and I hope he writes a book soon.

what are they wrong about? i dont know shit about the sixties and before

[quote=CornerBoy post_id=280166 time=1720370293 user_id=5642]
mob archaelogists is great btw. i went to the page awhile ago and saw a few include Frank F.

you guys are amazing researchers. great stuff. there a few others that try to speak intelligently about the mob but come up way short. way, way short.
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I agree on your last point. I’m no mob history expert by any means so when I can pick holes in their video I’m not buying into it. Mob archaeologists in a world of their own on the history side in my opinion. But there’s a few good shows out there also oc shorts very good and this guy brazen breeds does cool videos live at the nyc locations they took place

mob archaelogists is great btw. i went to the page awhile ago and saw a few include Frank F.

you guys are amazing researchers. great stuff. there a few others that try to speak intelligently about the mob but come up way short. way, way short.

[quote=B. post_id=280027 time=1719968920 user_id=127]
Francesco Navarra, Santo Giordano, Giovanni Fiordilino, and some others in the Bonannos plus others in Sicily.

Very tough guy who also has a sharp mind. A lot to be learned from him not just for the mob stuff as he has a ton of insight into Sicilian culture and the immigrant experience in NYC during the 1970s/80s which nobody else can really break down the way he does.
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anymore info on his family re mafia?

siblings etc?


i will admit i listen to a few utube streams that this 40 yr old freak that lives w his parents in some shitty apt in qns puts out. KId is a mess. he begs for donations and says that this is his job. if i did a youtube stream, i would do it after work!

Anyway, he does manage to get FRank fiodilino and howie santos on to talk for hours at a time. Frank is a very bright, nice guy that seems too good for that life. Howie Santos seems to be a very nice guy that talks about the past and current topics. He comes off very well. doesn't bullshit.

dipshit host lets them tell good stories and speak w one another and says "yeah" every five minutes then begs for money saying he needs to "feed his family, this is my job, my livelihood, i'm a content creator"

[quote=B. post_id=280027 time=1719968920 user_id=127]
Francesco Navarra, Santo Giordano, Giovanni Fiordilino, and some others in the Bonannos plus others in Sicily.

Very tough guy who also has a sharp mind. A lot to be learned from him not just for the mob stuff as he has a ton of insight into Sicilian culture and the immigrant experience in NYC during the 1970s/80s which nobody else can really break down the way he does.
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he seems down to earth and really nice

how about that howiee santos?

saw him and FF on some YTube show