No,he worked in Bensonhurst.Out of the 19th hole on 86th street and 14th ave.Moved to Bhurst in '68.He was acctualy from Park slope section of Brooklyn.His familly lived on union street betwen 4th and 5th ave.In his teens was part of a gang called The South Brooklyn boys,one of the New Yorks most toughest Italian gangs.The same gang that Carmine persico was part of.