I don't know why people have this opinion that Paul Castellano was just some yuppie, used to only the finer things in life and couldn't handle a jail sentence. The guy was a street guy majority of his criminal career, he did the blue collar rackets, he was in the streets.
At the end of his life he was a yuppie. He wasn't a street guy anymore. The only time he played a street guy was when capos showed up at his house and even then they thought of him as a yuppie. Why else you think most thought Neil would be boss instead of him? Yes he was once a street guy when he was younger, but Carlo gave him the freedom to become a blue collar guy that he became and it cost him in the end.
