Do you want to post the address?
First of all, you didn't even say if you liked the photo or not, which I would imagine you did, no? Lol.
I gotta look up the exact address in my files, but I remember that Gribbs lived right off 147th Street, a few doors in. Some call it Flushing, some refer to it as College Point. But it was actually Whitestone.
C'mon NYM, you got me nibbling at the bait but you have to throw out more chum if you want me to bite the hook.
You know I grew up in Whitestone at 3-04 150th St and lived there when Mr. Grubbs was doing time, although I did not know the family. Coincidentally, I knew personally used to shoot hoops with NYPD Det. Eddie Egan, whom along with Sonny Grosso, was responsible for the initial French Connection bust in 1960. The drugs from that bust sat in the NYPD evidence room until Tramunti and his cohorts were able to make withdrawals and replace it with cornstarch.
Getting back to your excellent image, there's a discrepancy between your image and the one generally posted on the internet as being where Tramunti lived according to the address on 5th Ave and 147th St.
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First of all, thanks for acknowledging my "excellent image" as you put it. It's nice to be recognized every now and again, especially when you go out of your way to post up something as unique as this photograph of a top boss, in his "off hours" so to speak, relaxing with his family. lol.
Also, I didn't know that you grew up around Whitestone.
Second of all, or maybe first of all, that photo was taken many many moons ago. I estimate in the late 1960s, early 1970s...at best. So I have no doubt that at least to some degree, the landscape and physical structure of the home has been modified to one degree or another over these last sixty-some odd years, no?
That said, is there any doubt that is Tramunti relaxing at home with his kids and loved ones? I think not.
