Hello does anybody know about some mobsters that grew up in Canarsie Brooklyn besides the Varios i always heard it was a mobbed up neighborhood back in the 1980s and 1990s thanks

Nicky Corozzo has a HUGE crew in Canarsie.

Well,The Senters and the Testas were all from Canarsie,the Dinomes two.Pretty much everybody from the DeMeo crew.Frank Lastorino of the Luccheses was from Canarsie.Vic amusos brother Bobby had a bar on Flatlands ave,and Bruno Facciolo had a club on Ave D.The Corozzos operated out of a club on Ave L,but they were from Ocean hill.John Gotti had some type of gambling goin on there.Of course all of the Vario crew hung out at the Bamboo lounge,Angelo the owner was from Canarsie.Paul Vario married his sister.Cant think of anybody else,but there probablly are more guys.

danny cutatia and his crew... not much left of corrozzo crew

I can't imagine much going on within that neighborhood these days. Would love to know what new areas the existing crews (Cutaia, etc.) have settled into. Maybe Nassau.

In other words, I know the crews still exist, but I think the Italian neighborhood doesn't. they had to have gone somewhere.

I thought Canarsie was a shithole nowadays. Who the hell would wanna go there? Italian or non Italian

It is.

DP

Loads of Jamaicans, especially along Seaview.

Lotta Bob Marley types? haha

Haitians. Most of Canarsie is stoll pretty nice, or no less dragged thanit was as a Jewish-Italian 'hood though it has been built up-- less wetlands, marshes-- and it's a different scene now with the stripmall on the Belt etc. I know you know Pizzaboy but most folks don't know industrial Canarsie also... Anyway, Canarsie isn't gentrified but it's neither a shithole nor Brooklyn's roughest 'hood (that would neighboring Brownsville... East New York too varied to generalize but there are some real nice and some real less than nice blocks/sections there.)

There is a famous sub joint in canarsie and still open ( i think. ).

Mob associate Andre Katz, but he's not an Italian. Sounds like Canarsie has never been a beauty contest.

you're thinking of Sonny's?

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sonnys-heros-brooklyn http://www.yelp.com/biz/sonnys-heros-brooklyn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpar_Yisx_U

speaking of heros, I used to be in the south Bronx a lot and there was very good place, Joey's Hot & Cold Heros, Morris & 149th, amazing it had survived in even semi-Italian style

good pizza on Canarsie too, Armando's on Rockaway Ave, also just off the L.

for those who haven't been to Canarsie, I'd really caution against having too negative opinion. Though it was the butt of jokes, that had more to do with its "funny" name, the distance from 'the city,' the many decades there were still numerous open lots and wetlands (there are still the latter but nearly all by the water).

There were also two landfills on Canarsie border/near Pennsylvania Ave and Fountain Ave so that had its effect.

Mostly, however, the bum rap on Canarsie is exaggerated 'white flight' prejudice, i.e. working and middle-class West Indian blacks have most of the same desires, values as their Jewish-Italian predecessors... There's small colony of Filipinos in Canarsie too btw, I keep forgetting to mention.

The Canarsie kid...

and how can anyone forget bout Henry Borelli hes was from Canarsie too same as Joey

No buddy i said all of the Demeo crew were from Canarsie or around.In fact where in canarsie was Borelli from,does anybody know?

When I was growing up in Brooklyn, Canarsie was like a small town, centered around Rockaway Parkway and Flatlands Avenue, with a few houses near the bay. Then they started draining the swamps and building two-family houses from Flatlands to Seaview Avenue. Italians and Jews, mostly. You'd see how the neighborhood "integrated" during the holiday season: At first, one entire block with Xmas decorations, another block all with menorahs; then one side of a street with Xmas, the other side with menorahs, then one story in a house with Xmas, the other with menorah. Today, lots of upwardly mobile Haitians.

Yes your apsolutlly right Turnbull,the guy who wrote that book about Canarsie said it very well too.Jews and Italians against liberalism it's called.Maybe somebody has heard of it.Canarsie had its population peak around 1975,after that a lot of Jews and Italians left and some black people came.About 80,000 to 100,000 people lived there at that time.
Tell me Turnbull if this is not to personal,where are you from in Brooklyn?

I'll take Haitians any day of the week over those fuckin generic whites that go to Park Slope and the hipsters in Williamsburg.

I lived my first 29 years in Brooklyn: first East New York, then Brownsville, then East New York, then East Flatbush, then Canarsie, then Kensington(part of Flatbush).
Since you are from Serbia, alexandarns, I'd like to know why you are interested in Brooklyn. Any relatives there?

Oh,you have all around Brooklyn.Acctually yes,even though i am From Serbia i have relatives in Brooklyn.My moters brothers live in Bhurst,my mother is born there.Originally they were from East new york,just like yourself.Ocean hill to be exact.And yes i am very interested in Brooklyn,but other boroughs too.

Mind fart, buddy. When I posted Jamaicans along Seaview, I obviously meant Haitians. You of all people know me and my passion for this city better than that. You'll find a lot more Jamaicans towards Flatbush, though.

When I was first starting out with the Teamsters and funeral service, I must have literally worked over a hundred funerals out of Saint Jude's on Seaview and Canarsie. It's one of my five favorite Churches in the entire City. I know that area like the back of my hand. And that's not to mention all of the Jewish work I did out of Midwood.

My Dad's wing of the family came out of East Harlem, and took what you (correctly) referred to as "White Flight" up to the Bronx, where I've maintained my main residency for over fifty years. But we also had people on my Dad's side settle in East New York, on Pacific Street (my Paternal Grandfather had over ten siblings immigrate sporadically over a multi-year time frame). So we used to alternate Sundays with the family dinners, and we were in East New York every fifth or sixth Sunday back in the late '60s through the early '80s when the older generation started to pass away.

So between that and being Brooklyn based for the union for so many years, I consider myself an honorary Brooklynite. And speaking of my years in Jewish funeral work in Midwood, I've often been referred to as an honorary "MOT" (Member of the Tribe), which gives me tremendous pride. There isn't a Catholic Church or Jewish Temple in Brooklyn that I haven't stepped foot in (unless it was built in, say, the last eight or nine years).


Thank you. All fucking hipsters must fucking die .

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Oh, it's EXACTLY 80 degrees in Delray Beach. Talk you you suckers later .

Good! I hope you are sweating your butt off in those black nylon socks you're wearing with sandals, Dago T and flowered shorts.

It's 10 degrees here and we are warm & toasty in our furnace heated, dry aired winter misery!

I GOTTA get my wife off that fuckin Instagram. The broad is ***** years old, for Christ's sake .

Ever buy a birthday cake at Mrs. Maxwell's on Atlantic Avenue?


Didn't I see you in a TV commercial, in a snow-covered NYC phone booth, saying, "Hello, Eastern? Can you get me out of here?"

Are you kidding, TB? In its own way that place has as much history as Ferrara's .

Not sure if you remember the Brooklyn Democrat, Meade Esposito? My Uncle out there hated him for whatever the reason, thought he was crooked, but my Uncle was nuts, so . . .

Anyway, I remember his picture being up in Mrs. Maxwell's for years. I saw him there a couple times, too .

Esposito was the Dem district leader in East NY when I lived there. He was a delegate to the Dem Convention in 1960. My father was his alternate, if he couldn't go (fat chance). Mother of one of my best friends worked for Esposito.

My brother and sister are twins. So, for their birthday, my father always drove to Mrs. Maxwell's to buy their extra-large birthday cake. Mrs. Maxwell's was the only place where you didn't have to order a birthday cake in advance, and where they would put the lettering on it while you waited.

Now THAT'S a small world. Nine years and we've never mentioned that bakery OR Esposito!

And just so you know, my Uncle really WAS nuts. I have no opinion of the man one way or the other .