Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York City's Most Famous Neighborhood

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Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York City's Most Famous Neighborhood

Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York City's Most Famous Neighborhood

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Source Information: Ancestry.com. New York, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, US: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. By the 1960s and 70s, the streets of the Harlem ghetto began to decline with the slow introduction of drugs and other community problems, along with people leaving Harlem for other neighborhoods in New York City with the help of urban renewal construction.

However, Johnson was also known for being a gentleman who was always willing to help out the less fortunate members of his community. In addition, he garnered a reputation as a fashionable man about town who rubbed elbows with celebrities like Billie Holiday and Sugar Ray Robinson. Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno started as a soldier in the 1930s under capo "Trigger Mike" Coppola. As the years went by, Salerno worked his way up the ranks of the crew and the crime family, controlling his own lucrative gambling and loansharking operations. In the early 1960s, his capo Coppola was imprisoned on tax evasion charges and demoted in rank. The crew then split, allowing Coppola's top lieutenants to break up his vast illegal interests that included his numbers empire. Salerno based the 116th Street Crew from the Palma Boys Social Club located at 416 East 115th Street in East Harlem. The Purple Gang became increasingly involved with murder, sometimes acting independently and sometimes as contract killers for the Mafia, and they became renowned for their "enormous capacity for violence." [1] [7] [8] By 1977, law enforcement claimed that the Purple Gang had committed at least 17 homicides, with many of these murders committed on behalf of 'organized crime principals' (i.e., Italian-American Mafia families.) [1] Many of the murders attributed to the Purple Gang were exceedingly grisly, with some involving decapitation, dismemberment, or multiple stab wounds. The gang is also suspected to be involved in a rash of killings during the 1970s of various mobsters and people with organized crime connections, with the murders notably involving .22 caliber firearms. [6] Dismemberment and .22 caliber killings subsequently became known in the underworld as the trademark of the Purple Gang. Mike Dash. The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia. London, Simon & Schuster, 2009.stunts / Stunt double: Joel marsh Garland / stunt double: Ronald Guttman / stunt performer (4 episodes, 2019-2023) With Bumpy Johnson as the Godfather of Harlem, anything that happened in the crime world of the neighborhood had to get his seal of approval first.

The gang’s name, “Sex Money Murder,” was inspired by the idea of pursuing pleasure and luxury at any cost. Members of the gang were known for their extravagant lifestyles, and their wealth and power allowed them to live a life of excess and indulgence. Find sources: "Stephanie St. Clair"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) With a rap sheet of over 40 arrests in his lifetime, Johnson found himself under the watchful eye of authorities. Enraged by their relentless surveillance, he staged a sit-down strike at a police station in 1965. Although he was charged for refusing to leave the station, he was later acquitted. Movies, TV and Portrayals in Hollywood East Harlem, or historically known as Spanish Harlem, stretches to 97 th Street with the East River Projects, Washington Houses, and the Carver Houses all in the same vicinity of one another. Spanish Harlem, or East Harlem, became one of the biggest Puerto Rican neighborhoods in the country between the 1920s and 1950s, after it was an Italian community. Johnson married Hatcher in 1948. Hatcher was born in North Carolina in 1914 (other sources say 1915) and moved to New York in 1938, where she waited tables and later became a hostess. Ten years later, she bumped into Johnson, who had just come out of serving a 10-year stint in prison. The couple took to each other instantly and married three months later. Hatcher died in 2009.

Who was Bumpy Johnson?

He became a federal informant, and turned in a list of 109 people involved in his heroin operations, including his wife. His testimony helped secure indictments against 44 of his former colleagues and associates, and got 16 of them convicted. As a reward for Barnes’ cooperation, Rudolph Giuliani, then US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, helped get him resentenced from life without parole to 35 years. Bellafante, Ginia (January 5, 2013). "Violent Crime Fell? Tell It to East Harlem". The New York Times . Retrieved June 15, 2013.

The 2021 graphic novel Queenie, la marraine de Harlem ( Queenie: Godmother of Harlem) by Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Lévy [15] Two months after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the Amsterdam News proclaimed: “BUMPY’S DEATH MARKS END OF AN ERA.”

Bumpy Johnson, Harlem’s Greatest Crime Boss

The overall entertainment consisted of musical revues, singing, dancing, comedy, variety acts, as well as the famed house band. Fletcher Henderson was the first bandleader, with Duke Ellington famously taking the helm in 1927. Ellington recorded over 100 compositions during this time — and his musical talents ascended him to the top of the Jazz Age. Whitehouse, Kaja (February 13, 2017). "Lucchese crime family members busted in murder of relative". New York Post . Retrieved June 4, 2017.



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