We posted up a very exclusive photograph of former Lucchese Family boss Carmine (Mr. Gribbs) Tramunti on our YouTube Community page. You can check it out via the link below and as always Button Guys extends a special thank you to members of the Tramunti family for sharing and entrusting this rare photo with us.
First of all, you didn't even say if you liked the photo or not, which I would imagine you did, no? Lol.
I gotta look up the exact address in my files, but I remember that Gribbs lived right off 147th Street, a few doors in. Some call it Flushing, some refer to it as College Point. But it was actually Whitestone.
Thanks NYM, I still think that fucking heroin case against him was bullshit. So many guys doing life after being convicted with weak and flimsy evidence, prosecutors and juries alike should be ashamed.
Thanks NYM, I still think that fucking heroin case against him was bullshit. So many guys doing life after being convicted with weak and flimsy evidence, prosecutors and juries alike should be ashamed.
100% Liggio.
I remember the day Gribbs got convicted. He was "supposedly" caught on a parabolic mike - across a jammed-filled dance floor in a very very noisy Midtown discotheque, no less - as he quietly "whispered" in the ear of a co-conspirator, I think it might have been Gigi Inglese if my memory serves me. Lol.
Thats one of the main "pieces" of evidence that buried him....Pleeez!
But they sent him to the can and he died there a few years later. (I remember that he wasn't a healthy guy to begin with, but prison didn't help him any, thats for sure)
Thanks NYM, I still think that fucking heroin case against him was bullshit. So many guys doing life after being convicted with weak and flimsy evidence, prosecutors and juries alike should be ashamed.
BTW Liggio, thank you for saying "Thank you." Its always nice to be nice and to show appreciation when someone does something nice for you. In this case, ButtonGuys putting up such a great, never-before-seen photograph for everyones enjoyment.
First of all, you didn't even say if you liked the photo or not, which I would imagine you did, no? Lol.
I gotta look up the exact address in my files, but I remember that Gribbs lived right off 147th Street, a few doors in. Some call it Flushing, some refer to it as College Point. But it was actually Whitestone.
C'mon NYM, you got me nibbling at the bait but you have to throw out more chum if you want me to bite the hook. You know I grew up in Whitestone at 3-04 150th St and lived there when Mr. Grubbs was doing time, although I did not know the family. Coincidentally, I knew personally used to shoot hoops with NYPD Det. Eddie Egan, whom along with Sonny Grosso, was responsible for the initial French Connection bust in 1960. The drugs from that bust sat in the NYPD evidence room until Tramunti and his cohorts were able to make withdrawals and replace it with cornstarch. Getting back to your excellent image, there's a discrepancy between your image and the one generally posted on the internet as being where Tramunti lived according to the address on 5th Ave and 147th St.
First of all, you didn't even say if you liked the photo or not, which I would imagine you did, no? Lol.
I gotta look up the exact address in my files, but I remember that Gribbs lived right off 147th Street, a few doors in. Some call it Flushing, some refer to it as College Point. But it was actually Whitestone.
C'mon NYM, you got me nibbling at the bait but you have to throw out more chum if you want me to bite the hook. You know I grew up in Whitestone at 3-04 150th St and lived there when Mr. Grubbs was doing time, although I did not know the family. Coincidentally, I knew personally used to shoot hoops with NYPD Det. Eddie Egan, whom along with Sonny Grosso, was responsible for the initial French Connection bust in 1960. The drugs from that bust sat in the NYPD evidence room until Tramunti and his cohorts were able to make withdrawals and replace it with cornstarch. Getting back to your excellent image, there's a discrepancy between your image and the one generally posted on the internet as being where Tramunti lived according to the address on 5th Ave and 147th St.
- First of all, thanks for acknowledging my "excellent image" as you put it. It's nice to be recognized every now and again, especially when you go out of your way to post up something as unique as this photograph of a top boss, in his "off hours" so to speak, relaxing with his family. lol.
Also, I didn't know that you grew up around Whitestone.
Second of all, or maybe first of all, that photo was taken many many moons ago. I estimate in the late 1960s, early 1970s...at best. So I have no doubt that at least to some degree, the landscape and physical structure of the home has been modified to one degree or another over these last sixty-some odd years, no?
That said, is there any doubt that is Tramunti relaxing at home with his kids and loved ones? I think not.
