As a teenager, I worked in a candy store at the corner of Saratoga and Livonia Avenues in Brownsville, Brooklyn, that had been "Midnight Rose's," the HQ of Murder Inc. in the Thirties and Forties.


Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.