Amuso or casso ,somebody of them 2 for sure..i dont know in which crew dou,i know that frank lastorino was from canarsie 2,and he was a vicious mf also..i could be true that the reason that roy was made that late i 77 because he wasnt from bensohurst or bath beach like paul was..i wonder if ther was any mob activity in canarsie and flatlands before roy,maybe the luchesse family..??

That area was mobbed up WAAAAAAAAY before Roy. Paul Vario ran his crew out of that neighborhood.

realy??how much before,like in the 50s??i know that flatlands was middle class..not as tough as bensonhurst or red hook ..?

not sure about canarsie...

It was actually August of 1946 that it became mobbed up .

But seriously, yeah, since at least the '50s.

Are you from New York?

hehehe i meant like before roy demeo got into loan sharking,they never say who did he work before nino always puzzeled me..all mobsters in their youth are in gangs or what not but not roy..so i thought,that there was low crime overall...yrah living in ny for now..

my granfather told me there was a lot of well of jews and little italians..

Every working class area in brooklyn had a mob presence.
Bensonhurst, bath beach, graves end, dyker heights, bay ridge, canarsie, williamsburg, caroll gardens, red hook, and east new york.

Queens- ozone park, howard beach, maspeth,bayside, and i think jamaica.

Bronx- belmont( arthur ave), morris park, throggs neck, pelham, seaview.

I agree fully..that's true..do you or anyone knows how did roy get to meet nino..??was it because of the car biz,or was roz just so tough and rich that nino even heard of him?

You mean Pelham Bay. Pelham's in Westchester .

yeah,but some less than the others had mob activity..

You're right. But that's most definitely NOT the case with Canarsie and Flatlands. Those areas were mobbed up forever. Not so much today because of the changing demographics. But they were a hotbed of mob activity for fifty years. It's a fact that's not even open to debate.

ok i belive you,i hear what you are sayin and i agree..i know that the was the vario crew and the bamboo and all..i am just talkin about the late development of canarsie,that influenced the late populatin of people and late settling,thus the late activation of organazed crime..i mean do you know who was big in the area beside paul vario?which were the other families and mobsters that called this are of flatlands and canarsie thei hq?

ok i belive you,i hear what you are sayin and i agree..i know that the was the vario crew and the bamboo and all..i am just talkin about the late development of canarsie,that influenced the late populatin of people and late settling,thus the late activation of organazed crime..i mean do you know who was big in the area beside paul vario?which were the other families and mobsters that called this are of flatlands and canarsie thei hq?

and not to be misunderstood i mean befor roy and his crew made it big in the 70s before that

What is Canarsie like today PB? Are all Italians gone from that area?

I used to hang around with a kid when I was younger and my mother thought he was a bad influence - he went on to rape a girl and kill two people in separate car crashes so there may have been some truth to that - maybe Casso was just a bad influence on Amuso? D'Arco said Casso warped Amuso's mind. Then again... that stoolpigeon says a lot of things.

Roys club (Gemini ) wasn't in canarsie it was on flatland ave in the flatlands area.

They're in Staten Island and Jersey now, Nicky .

Exactly

A buddy of mine wanted to rent me out some yard space on Fountain Ave a few years back. When I went and looked at it it was around 3 in the morning. Just knowing what happened there was enough for me to take a pass.
Plus, at the time, too many hookiz waltzing around, and lots of shenanigans going on all night long.

They move out to places in Jersey like Monroe and Howell. You know not to far from the city, but far enuff to make them feel like their in the country. Some of them open food establishments and you get Brooklyn quality sandwiches without having to pay the toll.

I know i said it 10 times flatlands and canarsie..the two are close very...i dont know if one italian is left there now:(

They say a lot a tough italians came out of canarsie..anyone here from canarsie??

I got lost in Canarsie once back in 86...i saw a cop, got out of my car and said "scuse me, what town am I in?"
Cop looks at me and with this crooked shit eating look-at-this-asshole-from-jersey grin he goes "What TOWN are you in? You're in the TOWN of Brooklyn."
I walked away mumbling... "ok, Jesus Christ, what BORO... so-RYYY!"

Hehehe boro of bk..how sweet it is

i'm a retired investor living on a pension.


Where you come out of

Lived in bk as a kid..so what?

So buttons.

are you from canarsie?would like to hear where joseph testa and dinomes lived,if you know..would be very greatfull..doing a papper for class..:)