Iceman of Brooklyn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iceman of Brooklyn write by Michael Newton. This book was released on 2021-04-16. Iceman of Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an influential New York mobster of the early 20th century whose proteges included future leaders of New York's five Mafia families and Chicago's outfit. His influence extended to Chicago, where he personally committed two of the city's most notorious underworld assassinations and waged a five-year war to wrest control of Brooklyn's docks from Irish rivals. His murder marked New York City's first use of a Tommy gun in gangland warfare, the same weapon used in Chicago's St. Valentine's Day massacre seven months later. Yale's passing destabilized Gotham's Mafia, paving the way for an upheaval that modified and modernized the structure of American syndicated crime for the next six decades. Despite Yale's prominence during his life, this is the first biography to survey his life and career.
The Brooklyn Iceman
The Brooklyn Iceman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brooklyn Iceman write by Anthony DiPello. This book was released on 2013-11-15. The Brooklyn Iceman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Brooklyn Iceman is a colorful saga spanning the 20th century from 1915 until the 1980's, using one man's experience to illustrate many of the important historical and cultural events of the era from the perspective of a pragmatic and amoral individual. The novel follows Vincenzo Castella, whose story begins with becoming an iceman in Brooklyn as a teenager and moving on from there into a position of leadership among the icemen. He finds himself drifting into relationships with criminal groups and is finally confronted with the harsh reality that he has, in fact, become a criminal himself, by association: the reluctant criminal.Castella's story also defines the journey of the first, second and future generations of Italian immigrants in their quest to establish a good and secure life for themselves and their families. Many of these hardworking men -- and only very few of them actually resorted to crime, regardless of what Hollywood seems to think -- turned to people like Castella to help them understand how to succeed in the new world.
The Ice Man
The Ice Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ice Man write by Philip Carlo. This book was released on 2007-04-01. The Ice Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philip Carlo's The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Richard Kuklinski was Sammy the Bull Gravano's partner in the killing of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino crime family, at Sparks Steakhouse. Mob boss John Gotti hired him to torture and kill the neighbor who accidentally ran over his child. For an additional price, Kuklinski would make his victims suffer; he conducted this sadistic business with coldhearted intensity and shocking efficiency, never disappointing his customers. By his own estimate, he killed over two hundred men, taking enormous pride in his variety and ferocity of technique. This trail of murder lasted over thirty years and took Kuklinski all over America and to the far corners of the earth, Brazil, Africa, and Europe. Along the way, he married, had three children, and put them through Catholic school. His daughter's medical condition meant regular stays in children's hospitals, where Kuklinski was remembered, not as a gangster, but as an affectionate father, extremely kind to children. Each Christmas found the Kuklinski home festooned in colorful lights; each summer was a succession of block parties. His family never suspected a thing. Richard Kuklinski is now the subject of the major motion picture titled "The Iceman"(2013), starring James Franco, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, and Chris Evans.
The Iceman
The Iceman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Iceman write by Anthony Bruno. This book was released on 2013-03-26. The Iceman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down. A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, poison, ice picks, tire irons, baseball bats, and bombs, the family man from New Jersey killed for fun, for money, to cover up his own crimes, and to satisfy his inner rage. Law enforcement officials knew all about Kuklinski and had a list of his victims, but couldn’t get near him—until undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse. In this harrowing true-crime account, Anthony Bruno delves into the mind of a cold-blooded killer, chronicling the Iceman’s grisly crimes and probing the bizarre dynamics of Agent Polifrone’s dangerous liaison with him. For as Polifrone carefully built up a case against Kuklinksi, he knew he was running out of time—because the Iceman was planning to kill him too. “Bruno puts his writing talents to white-knuckle use with a tight focus on a killer with no human feelings.”—Kirkus Reviews “Excellent . . . [re-creates] the tension and stress Polifrone experienced in fulfilling his risky undercover assignment.”—Publishers Weekly
791 Coney Island Avenue: Brooklyn
791 Coney Island Avenue: Brooklyn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 791 Coney Island Avenue: Brooklyn write by George DiGuido. This book was released on 2002-03-18. 791 Coney Island Avenue: Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A kid of Italian immigrants grows up in South Brooklyn and Flatbush during the 20s, 30s, and 40s, playing Johnny-on-the-Pony, Ringalevio and Spin-the-Bottle. Life was simpler then, before the breakup of Ma Bell, the corporate takeovers, and junk mail. His generation was deeply affected by the Great depression; the Big Band music of Goodman, Dorsey, Ellington; movies of Cowboy and Indians, Fred and Ginger; Mickey and Judy; the New York Worlds Fair; and Pearl Harbor, which forced them to leave home and go to war in places they could hardly find on a map. REVIEW What great fun! Ive never been to Brooklyn, and I feel I know the old place - and love it. Although those simple, innocent, carefree, halcyon pre-war days of 50, 60, 70 years ago are long gone, they surely come alive in this charming, laugh-out-loud poignant memoir of Brooklyn. DGuido writes as if hes talking to his reader over a beer, making the story both appealing and very accessible - a la Neil Simon, in tone and the story itself. Thanks to the author for recapturing a kinder, sweeter, gentler time with such wonderful recall. Id love to send this book to several former Brooklyn-ite friends. I cant imagine anyyone from that era or place whod not enjoy this breezy, good read.
