![]() ![]() The lounge served as a mob headquarters from 1957 until early 1979. ![]() Robert’s Lounge: 114-45 Lefferts Boulevard, South Ozone Park, Queens. Pistone’s six-year undercover operation to infiltrate the Mafia, and featured prominently in the film Donnie Brasco.ĩ. It was one of the central locations in FBI agent Joseph D. He kept his pigeons on the rooftop of his apartment building. ![]() The Motion Lounge was a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, nightclub owned by Bonanno crime family caporegime Dominick Napolitano which also was the capo’s apartment away from his home. The Motion Lounge: 420 Graham Avenue., Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Pictured: Peter Gotti holds court outside in 1996)Ĩ. Today it’s divided into two businesses: PSC Medical Supplies and The Dog ‘n Cat House Grooming Salon. The Bergin Hunt and Fish Club: 98-04 101st Ave., Ozone Park, Queens.Īnother favorite spot of John Gotti and later his son, John A. The owner makes a point of showing off bullet pock-marks in the exposed brick wall.ħ. Today it’s Pho Vietnamese, a newly opened restaurant. The bar’s owner, Michael DeBatt, was shot in the head by a member of Gravano’s crew and left bleeding on the floor. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.Ī longtime haunt of Gambino underboss Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano. (Pictured facing camera: Jimmy Ida, Matty Ianniello and Josehp Brancaccio.)Ħ. Most recently the club was a boutique with lime green interior. The FBI bugged the place for 18 months in the mid-1980s, using Fat Tony’s recorded words against him. Here was the mob’s corner outpost in what was once an Italian neighborhood and is now primarily Hispanic. Once this served as the hangout of Anthony ‘Fat Tony’ Salerno, the pretend boss the Genovese family put up to cover for Chin Gigante. A tenant of the building said it’s been empty for years: ‘I never see it open.’ (Pictured: Vincent ‘Chin’ Gigante outside the club in the early ’80s.)ĥ. Today the club is shuttered and padlocked, painted black over graffiti. Gigante is shown in photo in a more lucid state outside the club. Once a meeting place for Genovese boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, who lived nearby with his mother and performed a decade-long crazy act roaming the streets of Greenwich Village in robe and slippers. Triangle Civic Improvement Association: 208 Sullivan St., Manhattan ( Pictured: Carmine Sessa outside in black jacket)Ĥ. City records show the property has been owned by Salvatore Pellegrino since the 1970s. There are also headshots of Al Pacino as ‘Scarface’ and other celebs. On a back wall is a black-and-white artist’s rendering of the Dapper Don John Gotti sitting beside Marlon Brando’s Vito Corleone. Today the club is Sal’s Hairstylist and Barber Shop. Days later a dog running around the club walked up with the woman’s ear in its mouth. The woman was shot in the head, rolled up in a rug and disposed of elsewhere. At one point, one of Scarpa’s crew murdered a young woman they feared would turn informant. Wimpy Boys Social Club : 7506 13th Ave., Brooklynįor years this was Colombo capo Greg Scarpa Sr. (Pictured: Anthony ‘The Roach’ Rampino (center) enters the Ravenite.)ģ. Today the Ravenite is ‘Shoe,’ a trendy boutique that keeps gangster’s hours, not opening until noon. The FBI later planted a bug in the hallway and in an upstair’s apartment used by Gotti. On Christmas Eve 1985, days after the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano, the FBI watched as 200 members and associates in the Gambino family stopped by to pay homage to the new boss, John Gotti. The Ravenite Club: 247 Mulberry St., Manhattan. (Pictured: Roy Demeo & Albert Demeo, Jr.)Ģ. It is around this time that an FBI bug in the home of Gambino family associate Angelo Ruggiero picked up a conversation between Angelo and Gene Gotti, a brother of John Gotti. Part of his crew were also the Gemini Twins, Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa, they were the most ruthless hitmen in the crew they were called this because they always worked together and always sat together in the Gemini Lounge.īy 1982, the FBI was investigating the enormous number of missing and murdered persons who were linked to DeMeo or who had last been seen entering the Gemini Lounge. He would often lure his contracted hits or victims to the lounge where he would dispose of them using dismemberment executions which were known as the Gemini Method. ![]() The Gemini Lounge in Flatlands was a hotspot for Roy DeMeo and his crew in the 1980’s. The Gemini Lounge: 4021 Flatlands Ave., Brooklyn Over the years the mob have used many social clubs in order to hold meetings, the following are a look at some of the most popular clubs used by the likes of the Gambino’s and Genovese crime families, then and now.ġ. ![]()
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