1980's THROWBACK: "THE RAVENITE"
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- On first glance, 247 Mulberry Street looks like nothing more than another high-end boutique in NoLita, but the cracked tiled floors of the CYDWOQ shoe store offers a glimpse back to the days when the mob ruled New York. Once a mafia nerve center entrenched in the core of Little Italy, the Ravenite Social Club hosted the Anastasia and later Gambino Crime Family for 66 years.
The 1980s no phones or instagram shit or people knowing where you are all the time, what a time to be alive
Got that right
It was like that in the 90's, too.
It was a glorious time. Settle beefs in the street without 20 rats holding up cameras and dialing 911. Technology made the world soft!
OKAY BOOMERSS
@@TheDudeMaaaan trust, us, it was way better.
Good old days when people knew to mind their fucking business
Except the fed recording. Lol
@CHICHI816
Very allegorical.
😂😂😂
0:30..anyone know who he is???(first guy getting out of the Lincoln)
@@rasalghul1263 Tore LoCascio still a captain with the gambinos his brother Frank was a acting underboss and consigliere for Gotti
Man those square body Lincolns are nice.
No offense, but they look like hearse cars. There are better designed and looking cars during that era.
I got a 83 a 85 and a 89
They were allegorical.
@@JosephMason-sc1yo They got more power. If you wanna make a telephone they got a telephone. They have more power.
@@tylershuff3283 I had the same cars, but they got stolen by two black guys
Imagine living in one of those apartments across the street from the ravenite back then...you wouldn’t even need a television.
Justin Hopper and you would never get robbed. That block was off limits to thieves.
@@yankees29 Except by the mobsters who would demand a little tax to "protect" your store or house from the thieves, which would ultimately amount to more than what a robber or burglar would take.
*_JUSTIN, I SUGGEST YOU WATCH "THE RAVENITE" ON AMAZON. IT DISCUSSES THIS VERY THING._*
@@wauliepalnuts6134 is that a documentary
@@leedstown *_SOMEWHAT. IT'S LIKE 24 MIN LONG._*
Dude, that Gary Neuman soundtrack is fire. Perfect match to video..
Ha ha i was looking for this track thanks
Chris Green
Gary Numan
Here in my car!
It’s “Down in the park”
On paper it's so out of place - I can't imagine Gotti or Sammy Gravano cracking out 'are friends electric' or 'cars' inside their social club but it really fits so well because of the era. This video is amazing.
It’s not Gary Neuman, it’s foo fighters - down in the park
I see the following:-
1.) NO graffiti.
2.) Elderly people walking unafraid.
3.) NO beggars, bums, pests.
4.) Clean/properly maintained cars & buildings.
Seems to me there was order & real pride back then.
You make it sound like all of NYC was like this in the 80’s & 90’s. The only reason that area doesn’t have graffiti & whatnot is because of those guys coming & going in the video. You didn’t fuck around in their neighborhoods.
There was lots crime there
Look at their complexion, they actually take pride in their neighborhood.
No graffiti? Hope you never rode the subway. No beggars? You couldn’t walk down 6th Avenue without being harassed by crack addicts. Clean and properly maintained buildings? Hah! NY was a pit in the 80s. Time Square was just for hookers. No pests? Except for a rat stealing a pizza.
Before woke crossdresser Ruddy Giuliano started working for the deep state and locking up real men . While he and his brothers at the local
lodge are knocking off kids for 666
Strange seeing people living in the moment. Here we are watching them 40 years later. Most of them all dead
Yup. Exactly.
TheGooners11 uncertain times ahead
More like 30 years ago because at 2:00 you can see a brand new 1990 town car but yes I get your point.
Hindsight is a bitch.
Heil John👑Gotti the boss of bosses...
I love watching old tapes of people just going about their business , it’s a real way of time traveling.
Yup. Today, everybody is on a phone. Here, people are going about the day taking the scene in.
@@Mark-uh4zd you're on your phone
“Just going about their business”, you do realize all those people walking into that building are mob bosses and mob members right? You literally see John Gotti walking into it 4 minutes in 😂
@@Orbitalresonancefrequencies I think he was being facetious.
Buying into the whole “Mafia” being a thing b.s. Can’t these old card players have a social club and be left alone? Golly.
The big Lincoln engulfing all the camera space as the beat kicks in is a magical moment. This gets played, front to back, multiple times a week. Very entrancing.
yes very interesting but for me it's very memorable you may not believe me I really don't care my father is in the passenger seat his name is Iggy Ignazio alogna my name is Anthony alogna look me up. my father was a great man I never even knew he was involved in anything like this until I was around 13 years old and then I only found out through friends of mine that kept spreading stupid rumors saying oh don't f*** with Anthony like if any problems would happen in my neighborhood nobody would want to fight me or nothing because they were scared to death
@@antalogna7857 Someone I know was just asking about Iggy very recently during a conversation with Mikie Scars
@@antalogna7857I have a relative that hung out with them.
I’m with you man. The video sucks you into the time and atmosphere so well
For real. Gives me a shiver.
I bet the old lady in the window has a painting of one dog going one way and the other going the other, and a guy that has a nice head of white hair.
Dan S. 😂
So she says to him, Shut up your always talking
One dog goes East one dog goes West . So what!
Looks like someone we know...
It's him, without the beard!
a unique song, for a unique era! The 80s and 90s were the era of a serious and unforgettable breed of people and atmosphere!
The 80s were anything but serious.
Love the 80’s No insta, FaceBook… Clout shit …. These men hated the camera
I am so happy that i grew up in the 80,90 and 2000s those 3 decades really was something special after 2010 things changed a lot you could maybe stretch it up until 2015 but that it now people are more alone then ever before and when people come together half of the evening people just sitting and looking down on their phone
Gary Numan. Dude was ahead of his time.
Name of the tema?
I never seen this footage before. Gave me chills. After losing my dad and kid brother I came across a quote. "I am hopelessly in love with a memory, an echo from another time, another place." Thank u for the glimpse back to the last days of the NY that meant so much to us.
'kid brother'
Did you by any chance also do 20 fuckin years in the can? Ate grilled cheese off the raydeeaytuh? Compromised? Jerked off into the tissue?
This was the last “golden era” in NYC. I’m so happy I was able to witness.
This was the NYC I knew, it had its own flavor. You told a guy at a deli for a regular coffee he knew what it was. A slice was a slice of pizza. This overpriced, overhyped, overbuilt one now is a shadow of its former self no matter how many glass towers you build or all the hype you try to give it. Fake can’t be real,
Manhattan when the twin towers still stood was a different world. I'm just glad I got to experience it while it lasted
You damn right!
So True! This was NYC ! Not this flashey Disney family friendly shadow of its its former self we have today!
Russell George , yup all hype, 15 dollar fish tacos. Give me a break. Clubs didn’t close. It was a creative dynamo of energy and free spirits
Well said
Dude this is a historical documentation of a video👍🏼 nothing on UA-cam comes close to the reality of these times and the way it was you don’t see stuff like this of Al Capone or Tony Accardo or etc. bravo cool shit man,,, need more throwbacks
You dont see em because they stayed in the shadows lowkey this thing supposed to be secret thats his downfall
Wow Tony Acarrdo I haven't heard that name in a long time. AKA the big tuna!
@@amarugee808 Capone threw himself into the limelight he was not low key.
@@wsmokr i mean mobsters like the chin or Frank funzi Tieri not Al capone
The Outfit was a lil more disciplined and intelligent
Do you know how good this music fits? You should get an award for this. My favorite video of yours.
Yeah this is absolutely amazing. What is this song
@@jimmybaldwin737 Gary Newman Down in the park
It's movie quality
@@kushhead thanks. Yeah I just looked it up. Amazing song. Like you said it fits these clips so well. Something special about it
Gary Numan is gold.
Some of the members in this video;-
JOHN GOTTI - Head of the Gambino family. Sentenced to life without parole in 1992 for murder, tax evasion and extortion (among others). Died in 2002
JOHN D'AMICO- (the guy walking into the Ravenite with Gotti at 3:30) born 1937. One of Gotti's closest associates. Became acting boss in 2003. Has served time since for racketeering, loansharking and conspiring to assault someone with a deadly weapon.
NORMAN DUPONT- (the guy going to shop and trunk of car) Caretaker of the Ravenite. Currently doing life for the murder of Harmon Fuchs a car service dispatcher.
PETER GOTTI- ( the big guy at the ice cream truck) born 1939. Brother of John. Became acting boss when john went to prison. Currently serving a 25 year sentence for extortion and plotting to murder government informer Sammy 'the bull' Grevano.
JOE DECICCO- ( the guy with Peter at the ice cream truck) brother of long time cappo George Decicco. He is also the uncle of Frank Decicco who was killed in a car bomb in retaliation for the murder of Paul Castellano.
Bmw UK joe decicco still alive today at 90 years
First guy getting our of car is Sal Locasio.
1:24 man waiting by car door is Joseph Corrozo
2:12 guy getting out of driver side or car is Bobby Boriello
5:09 guy with hat and glasses walking by is Ralph Mosca.
Thanks for info, very interesting
Why did norman kill the dispatcher?
@@tonystevens8075 wrong place, wrong time basically.
A man named Joe Fabozzi, owner of Vista car services, owed the Gambinos money. Being that Fabozzi was an associate of Dupont, Norman subsequently got the blame.
On the night of Gotti's third acquittal Dupont, drunk and wanting to regain his status, went to Vista car services to send a message to Fabozzi. Allegedly Dupont shot the first person he saw, dispatcher Harmon Fuchs.
I love this it's like raw footage, awesome quality too
Peter Gotti at the end getting Ice cream. Just died the other day. 81. He was the tallest of the Gotti brothers.
@Nightmares Cook Watch it Chrissy
Who cares!!!!! There all bums!!!!!
@@valentinomarini4048 hoooooooo!
Most mobster don't live that long, at least not as a free man 👍
Peter wat an idiot wasn't suppose to be in mob should have stuck with his city job he didn't want this life but John fkd his life up like so many others.
Those were the days. Long gone, now every low life dealer thinks he's a Mr big.
@John Leslie I jerk off.
There's never gonna be another don he was the last that made it
Now everyone is mr big
Spot on.
I remember no one dared to park outside the ravenite, you would always see empty parking spots outside the club. Makes me sad when I walk past this location now, really miss seeing these guys around. The neighbourhood was much safer and better when gotti and his crew were around.
One time I parked my car there just to see what will happen, i came back after an hour, someone broke into my car and installed a new c.d changer
0:30..anyone know who he is???(first guy getting out of the Lincoln)
5 or 10 years from now there gonna miss john gotti
@Darkside Thrower really? I thought its Mike Scars Di Leonardos brother who was later murdered
@Darkside Thrower No it isnt ya ballbag. Its Mikey Scars' brother Robert
I am absolutely floored by this footage. My cousin owned that store on Mulberry which also served as a look out for the Gotti crew when they would go to the Ravenite. I would sometimes watch Mrs Cirelli's dog(shown in the video) while she prepared pasta for the boys. Gotti would have fresh ingredients brought every Wednesday including imported sauces for Mama C to cook with. I think that's what Norman is taking out of the trunk halfway through the video. The first guy you see show up is Mikey Scars. That's the guy who made John that Gary Numan mix tape you hear blasting out of the social club. They knew the feds had that street bugged up and down which is why they would blast Gary Numan all the time. Down in the Park(heard on the video) was John's favorite song. It obviously worked because that's all the feds are hearing. I'm stunned at how well the audio is. I never would have believed I would see this footage it's surreal to me and brings back a ton of memories. We knew who they were.
OMG....that's crazy...I'm the one who edited this footage and added the Music.
I had NO CLUE down in the park was Johns favorite song. It was completely chosen by Random...I was going thru my catalogue of audio files to add...and I just so happened to come across this track and decided to use it because it fit. That's spooky that I picked that song. Like John did that from the grave. 🤔🤔🤔
@@HezakyaNewz That is crazy synchronization then. At the very least I figured you picked the song as some sort of tribute. What made me think it's possibly coming out of the social club was how well it also picked up the ice cream truck music at the end with Pete. I just figured "Well damn, maybe those fed bugs were better than I thought." They would always have music playing out of there for that purpose, especially stuff with a constant stream of sound which Gary was good for.
@@blacksabbath1022 what was Norman in the crew?
WOW
I'm pretty sure the feds heard more than down in the park. They weren't laughing by the 90s
They asked the agents if they wanted some ice cream 🍦 😂
I think he was asking the guy with the camera. Do we know if he was law enforcement or some journalist? With the pictures of Mary and the fact they were blabbing about some kid being a fireball, i doubt they would talk like that. But maybe they were talking about a yankees pitcher?
I just listened closely. When they ask him if he wants ice cream he says I cant be in the picture.
He has passed away 3 hours ago. RIP Peter.
@@Dani-yy8kx
He died in Prison
He demanded the guy have an ice cream! Old school gangster!
The one old guy at ice cream truck said to the other old guy "im gonna go get the papers, get the papers"
Brandon Kirkland jimmy 2 times right?? Lol
That's John Gotti brother
BT Z 🤦🏼♂️
Jose Lopez yup, they look like twins.
I love seeing this city when it had soul. No hipsters, no elitest liberals up their own asses, the communities had personality.
trump lost. deal with it. mic drop
@@joshlewis991 mic drop? no one is impressed Josh
@@joshlewis991 and now it’s even worse. But people like you are alright with being told what to do. You have no balls.
The ethnic enclaves of the city is what made it so special.
They should put all the nyc elitist liberals and dopey hipsters in the same type of cell gotti was in at Marion Illinois
I love how nobody parks in their spots there isn’t parking for blocks but here you could put two limos
Lmao respect
@JayoJay
I was visiting a few years back, stood in an airbnb, the owner told me there was street parking, when i got there he warned me of a private club a few buildings down, not to park in front. I asked him if it was an NYPD tow zone he laughed and said it was a Sicilian tow zone, that i may never find my car,
You wouldn't dare
@@charlesbaldo that’s hilarious. Parking in Manhattan sucks.
@@yankees29
GO Yankees! 👍 ⚾️Thats why i go down there, to see Yankees. I had some in law family come in from out of country and they wanted to go to NYC. when there they wanted to see baseball and only the Mets were in town. I broke my leg at the game, bad Met Karma. 🙄
I got the background music is stuck in my head now been walking around with a swagger feelin like the dapper don all day LOL
@ *_YOU'RE A GOOD MAN._*
@Wus Poppin Lmaooo With that song definitely give you that extra swagger in the streets!!! 😂😎👊🙌
I feel u i feel u
Took the words out of my mouth.
the music is uk singer gary newman EE A
When New York Was Protected The Right Way..
Unless you were a small business owner being extorted by guys like Sammy the rat Gravano. Then, maybe it wasn't so fun or romantic 🤷
These guys are stone cold killers and you wouldn't even know it
Because they don't carry themselves like some wannabe tough guys like all the "street guys" today. And they didn't involve people that weren't in the life (Usually).
1986, my dad took us to NYC for the weekend for a vacation (sight seeing) I'm running up ahead like most 13 year kids. I go running up to a limo with tinted glass, trying to look in the windows. My dad runs over and apologizes to the driver who is waiting outside. He says: No problem and let's me get in the back of the limo and look at everything. My dad was always mistaken for a mob member and I think we just got a friendly pass that day. Great memory
This must be an FBI agent recording. I don’t know if a regular person being badass enough to record these guys.
I'm thinking the exact same thing.
Regular guy probably would got his ass whipped
It was not the FBI,,and no mob associate would retaliate for filming in real time at that place, but that's not to say his car plates weren't noted, and than warned or dealt with elsewhere..
Fbi don’t record on your face. Journalists do. This is an archive from a news agency on which the channel is based on.
It’s the cops
5:37 "They're going to take your picture." "I don't care." 😂
That club was his biggest mistake. Having everyone gather regularly there was so foolish. Mobsters in line for the ice cream truck🤣
Nah bub they talked in quiet old ladys apt upstairs. Took feds awhile to figure out. God bless America 🇺🇸
Just like Jenco olive oil or satriales in sopranos
@@Davido50 Which the feds put a bug in as well
@@scallen3841 true
@@Davido50 Gotti and his ego got him arrested
Gianni Russo: "I was the one who actually recorded this video, I spoke to John Gotti and he allowed me to record him and all these made guys as part of a movie I was making, isn't that nuts?!? Hahahahaha."
😂😂😂 good one...
@GRT Kiddo i was the one in the dog costume 😃🤣
Are there any more videos like this? I love it!
"I was actually the maid Paul Castellano was banging and got a penile implant for. I had a brilliant disguise! I was doing some hardcore method acting for my next mob movie and I needed to see how a mob boss gets down. I also fired the fatal shot that killed him at Sparks if you believe it or not, you can ask John Gotti." - VaGianni Pusso
@@sarahsweeney7311 there is a great one on this channel of Carlo Gambinos funeral.
Another great video. Before knowing your channel I could only watch the same identical documentaries. These old mafia reports are history of our age. Fucking love it.👍👍
Donate a couple fazools!
I don't understand what GOTTI was trying to prove or did he think they were never going to CONVICT him in court? He KNEW the COPS, FBI, STATE POLICE, ETC we're watching his EVERY move!! At least change Hangouts every 3 weeks so they have to gather evidence for new surveillance warrants!!
JULIO ROSENBERG yeah I wonder the same thing, who knows what the hell he was thinking honestly
@Stan Smith GREAT GUYS until you OWE them $$$ or have something they want like a LEGAL very profitable Business in their SO-CALLED area! They won't be your IDOLS after they TAKE everything you have!!
How do you find all these old clips?! Ah, never mind! Keep em coming. You do good work!
I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers
Jimmy 2x
I see this comment n every mob video, 🥱
Give it a rest, a rest.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 good fellas
Im going to the bing to the bing
Tell you this, that next door grocery store had to be the safest one in NY lol
The sad thing is all the cities and towns went to shit when the mafia was run out. I can’t believe nobody has challenged the constitutionality of RICO
Look at what a crime-ridden hellhole Vegas has become.
there still mafia there just not as powerful but there under the radar again i read some where they are only having mafia from Italy now to join the crews
Hahaha.. that's what I said about Vegas when I was there a month ago, now that they legalized the dope game the strip was a hot mess and I haven't been there since the 90s, absolutely nuts! the best thing we did was literally off the strip, horseback riding and the dune buggy rides in the desert, absolutely fun 👍
Rico.. I don't know no fucking Rico...
when adults had a place to go; dress up and look nice; supper clubs bringing in performers from the entertainment circuit; maybe a little numbers on the side for a diversion from the grind; now it's big box retail stores for an outing and chain restaurant heated up food; no time to attend to dressing up, gotta work all the time oh and no tailors making fine clothes only mundane box store clothes poor fabric mostly ill fitting anyway.
Even a wiseguy has to wait in line for a ice cream sandwich
The mundane and the murderous side by side.
Wonder how many jogging suits were in Norman Dupont's closet?
Detroit Siggy not for big bob in jail him first
Waiting for ice cream doesn't sound very wise. That stuff melts.
@Lonnie McGuire Truffle shuffle
That was nice by peter to ask them if they wanted ice cream lol
JR 1711 😀😀😀
@Jiggle Billy Jackie The Nose
Peter sat behind the wheel of my car 20 years ago and drove it to queens lincoln dealer and bought one just like it.
@Jiggle Billy Yes Im wrong. It was Frankie Diccico's uncle. I firget his name. He was in a documentary about Gotti though. I'll find that name.
@Boondock Saint Yep. You're rite my man. I knew it was Frankies uncle. I got confused with Jackie The Nose for some reason.
They don't even make cars worthy of dudes like this anymore..
Mercedes-Benz Maybach S 650 Base
Worthy of what?
robert carey
Big, so you can fit 2 in the front seat 3 in the back and 2 in the trunk
Charles good reply
Worthy? Get your head out of Hollywood. These guys are all losers.
I remember when I was a small kid in Queens, my family went out to dinner one time and John Gotti, Sammy the Bull, and Frank Locasio came into the restaurant. You would have thought it was the president or some celebrity came inside with the number people going up to them to say hello and take pictures. It was crazy back then in NYC.
I remember going to a small restaurant in Little Italy with my dad and mom when I was a little kid. There were definitely some wise guys in there. All extremely respectful, nice guys to the customers. No menu in this place. Just tell the waiter what you want and they make it. One of the greatest dining experiences of my life.
Great video, thanks. No wonder I like the song...I had his Cars record on 45. That first guy in the Lincoln who pulls up is Salvatore “Tore” Locascio. A capo in the Gambino family.
That’s Frank Locasio’s son. Frank was consigliere.
Those guys knew the Feds were surveilling them...They didnt give a flying canole!!!😭😂
Facts lol
Well they should have most of them went to prison for life. Capishe
It's not that they didn't cared I mean what can they do kill FBI agents In public no the wise guys would just have to ignore the agents and go about there day being careful don't or say the wrong things.
@@sergiopolowsky7580 Well they said and did ALL the wrong things..Because their either dead or in a Federal prison doing life plus a thousand years!!
@@ArnelleX-us9yo no Jacky nose is still alive now I think or died couple of years ago.
Gottis brother straightup asked the undercover feds if they want ice cream is next level gangster fpmsl
There are a lot of questions whether its an agent. He is obvious not undercover. It was probably a news reporter or somebody doing a documentary. If you listen closely the guy with the camera responds "I cant get in the picture" Its the very last thing said
Peter was just a garbage man from Brooklyn.😉😁
@@yankees29
Who never rode on a garbage truck or got within 10 miles of a garbage dump or the office.
@@charlesbaldo 😉😜
He rang that ice cream truck bell all the way home, never said a word! lol 😂
T.Soprano
It’s a Boutique now. Till this day I stop by sometimes. The store has the original floors it has never been changed. A lot of history there
Thank You for All the Great Clips from the Past. Excellent You Tube Channel.
Donate a few bucks!
This short video was better than the Travolta travesty of a movie.
That movie was awful
That hbo gotti movie was better
Amen there Alex. They could've slapped a wig on Jon Lovitz & no real difference!
@@Luke-yh6nmLMFAO
@@JoshBennett-ev6zfagreed 💯
Two evil, hardened killers getting ice cream from an ice cream truck with that innocent, light hearted jingle playing in the background. It's perfect.
Pete gotti isnt a hardened killer. Hes a loser who was a puppet for his don of a brother. Nothing more.
@@aw8632 oh well.
@@aw8632 he was just a garbage man. Peter always seemed like a nice guy to me.
@@aw8632 btw he just died yesterday.
@@yankees29 he had covid didnt he?
My son thought he knew it all about the mob! This helped me show him he don't know squat! I love this channel! =)
what did he learn?
@@bradjennings4591 - That even with a great deal of reading, watching documentaries, & such, there's still more info to be gleaned. He had no idea about The Ravenite. He's now looking up more videos on this channel. My son has been fascinated by the mob, going way back in time, long before he was born. Be blessed, Brad, today and always! =)
Karen Allen fascinated by the mob? what is your son a FBI agent?
Yes
Hankyou
I'm Italian and work in the Casino industry. I miss people like this who were down to earth and treated you like family. The guys in this film remind me of my own relatives...Great times.
A time to remember
The old woman walking the dog is the owner of the apartment above the ravenite. The FBI noticed her leave to walk the dog whenever all the high ranking mafioso showed up. They decided to bug her apartment and the rest is history.
Her names Nelli. Her last husband was part of the Gambino family. They waited till she went on a trip to Florida.
They didn't just decide to bug it. An informer told them gotti holds secret meetings above the club in an apartment. Cuz the feds notice after a while they no longer heard him on tape and surveillance indicated that he didn't leave the club so where was he? That informant singlehandedly buried gotti
Thanks for that info. I was wondering why she was getting filmed. She had to have some kind of connection. Not directly with those guys but something.
I really like how all the clips start out with really cool music like this.
@Donna Peroche WTF are you talkin about? You must just be a miserable person because the music does go great with this video so you must be the one that's tone deaf..WTF's your problem? U asswipe
@EatThis I agree 100% the music was perfect for this video IDK what this asswipe@Donna Peroche is talkin about... She's clearly a hater
When you can park a brand new Lincoln half way on the sidewalk in an alley in the middle of New York City and leave it unlocked and the keys inside. They could come back the next day and not only would it not be touched but it might even be waxed and the tank topped off with gas.
I remember all the abandoned cars on the road side when we used to pass through the Bronx in the early/mid 1980’s.
Oh how cool using Gary Numan's classic "Down In The Park"(1978) as the backround music! Awesome!
Thanks buddy, I really thought it sounded like him 🍺🤙😊
The music goes perfect with this video for some reason.
Travis Bickle “Down in the Park”
True
The music goes with it because it's dark and dingy.
@@tyjax5119 Gary Numan 👨💻
@@oldcigarette7538 🤣👍
Norman looking like my old basketball coach in that windbreaker. 😂
Norman's doing 25 to life right now for murder
@@Bluecollar711 Yeah, I saw a picture of him in prison from a few years ago. I don't know when he went in off the top of my head but I hope he gets to come home one day
Grew up in Canarsie Projects in the mid 70's and 80's. I remember this area and seeing all those Gambino guys back then. I loved the 80's, what an era.
This isn’t Canarsie. This is Manhattan
Re read what he wrote
0:30..anyone know who he is???(first guy getting out of the Lincoln)
I wish I got to experience this. I loved my visit to New York in 2010 but it felt very sanitised and HD.... This gritty New York looks so much better
Great piece of footage. Where do you find this stuff? You, you're good, you.
Paul Coade hahahah welll said
That's how those hoods used to park their cars ..on the sidewalk. Great footage
@@FCm-tq2ho 👍
@@montanastyle7505 👍
Feds footage 🕵️♂️
every time I watch this blows my mind, reminds me of my Grandad who passed in 1986 and my father who is now 85. Keep up the amazing work. I’m just turned 50 and this keeps history alive. Viva Antonio Ielacqua 1882 to 1969 1st to arrive at Ellis Island
If your grandad only knew that I would be reading his name in Scotland in 2023 on a mobile phone!!! RIP ANTONIO LELACQUA 🙏
@@dundeeutility4899amazing stuff
"Wise guys would pull up and I'd park their cars . At 16 I was making more than the grownups in the neighborhood".
I remember these times.
when these guys would walk by, believe me, you felt their presence.
Heil John👑Gotti the boss of bosses...
Joseph Battaglia
When they walked by where?
@@BigCheech-wy9os Ozone Park, Howard Beach
@@josephbattaglia3690 Oh I remember dem Ozone Park days!
Joseph Battaglia . Stop it
That's some gangster ass music man. Good vid
Whats the name of the song
What's the name of the track
I echo it again. What is the name of the song?
@Alex F Gary Numan certainly isn't gangsta but it really fits with the video.
Down in the Park
Fits because its dark and Gotti was from Ozone Park
I’ve actually been there, as well as in the apartment building where John Gotti was recorded. A friend of mine still lives in the building. It’s a great New York City apartment, the bathtub is a cast iron tub which sits right in the kitchen. It’s wild, those places have been there since the early 1900’s. Probably about 1920 or so. In the late 80’s when I’d go to visit my friend all of the “Made Men” would be hanging around the front of the “Social Club”, those were so BIG MEN!!! I actually walked past when John and Angelo were entering and all the guys just stepped aside, kinda like Moses parting the Red Sea!!! Yup, you live in New York City long enough, you’re gonna see some shit. Be well.
I was there too in the back. With norm
Italians need to take NY back to that time, make it great again
nojuststfu Italians couldn’t if they wanted to
all gangster should be in jail for 25 to life
Irish too.
@Sanctuary Cities Suck truth!
@Sanctuary Cities Suck you know how to vote this yr! Or we screwed.
Gotta love the Lincoln's
All I own now. Love em.
The good ole days, social clubs , members only and Ice cream trucks !
I bet those guys tipped the Ice Cream man good!
When I worked in bensonhurst I would love to see these guys pass by they always were so put together and smelled so good.
The music gives me chills... like someone was gonna get whacked...
Safe to say
Yes!!!😂🤣😂🤣🤣 LMAO
I thought the same thing! Imagine if it was John Gotti buying that ice cream and a car pulls up and two motherfuckers from another rival crime family just come at him and start blasting him away!🔫🔫⚰🛌💀👮
Exactly.. I'm on the edge of my chair at 3min. Lol
This video is crazy. I’ve been coming back to it for years. There’s something really eerie about knowing all these guys were known killers. Think the music makes it even more special
Most of them all killed each other !
That's sort an occupational hazard when you work for Fat Homicidal Fucks Inc.
Yes. Eachother... not civilians. This european mentality is something you americans never understood... u cant root this mentality out...the U.S. is born in 1776. My hometown is 3 times as old... my ex gfs hometown was named by the romans. This goes deeper then u comprehend
@@SimplyLimbo No, they killed, extorted, robbed and otherwise crapped where civilians ate, too. As far as "this European mentality", we fought a war to divest ourselves of it and frankly, despite the fact that a great deal of western history went down before America set up shop is irrelevant and doesn't excuse terrible actions and decisions made today.
@@BunneRabb you have no clue what ure talking about....
@@SimplyLimbo Oh, well... shit, if YOU say so. : )
Peter Gotti 1939-2021. The most famous garbage man in history. “You want some ice cream?” RIP
Their 'Mr Whippy' was in the basement of the club.
Gotti and Deccico at The ice cream truck in the end is priceless!
@Buzz Bronski Peter Gotti just passed recently.
I saw this with my own eyes, like out of a movie. I am so grateful to this video because it confirms my memory oif Gotti having four guys with him. I was exactly and unwittingly across the street eating a rice ball i used to bike down there to get. I was straddling the bike btw two parked cars and Gotti and crew came out, looked around (and up, which ny'ers don't do), straightened their suits and slowly began down the block, wide shoulders taking up the whole sidewalk. They looked and moved so oddly, and everyone in NY knew what Gotti looked like. Surreal score 10+.
Dude, imagine if you spotted yourself in this video.
The thing is, John would never bother innocent civilians
@@kennethfanelli3880 They clearly were not concerned about me or other citizens. They didn't give off a creepy vibe, just a unit of very tough guys, One of the most storybook stereotypical things I have seen.
Usually the kids in the neighborhood served as look outs. Any strange van or anyone snapping pictures were reported. I know from experience….😂
Does anybody else rewatch this video like 5 times a day? Weird fascination I have with this shit
Bella Beex3 One of the New York families?
Bella Beex3 Oh wow!!! Is your grandfather still alive?
Indeed. It's also an interesting contrast to Chicago - these cats just carry themselves differently than Chicago or KC wiseguys.
Yo more like 30 times!
Facts.. I was a unaware 11yr old kid during these times remember hearing bout these mobsters all thru out my youth
gotti opening the door by himself where as the media would have us believe he was too good for that lol
@TheOne723 he was a respected mobster by the people of New York
@TheOne723 he fucked over The Bull Gravano by being caught on tape calling Salvatore Gravano. So Gravano retaliated to Gotti Snrs snidy dry snitching. I have a lot of respect for John Alite,go watch him tell you the downsides of working with the Gotti Crew. Especially Gotti Jnr.
Ice Cube - dry snitching? nothing dry about it
Ice Cube John alite was a teenager round this time . He wouldn’t of known shit what was going on
Mr Furio nah he was in his 20s actually
I visited NY and Little Italy with my wife. Walked down Mulberry and ate at Umberto’s. Best Italian food I’ve ever had.
Not me. Over rated.
The song suits the footage perfectly.
Yes... Hezakya Newz
You know, Quasimodo predicted all this
Fayyaz Patel Nostradamus!
What you ponder those things, hunchback of Notre dame the quarter back of Notre dame 😂 Bobby was funny as fuck and that scene was hilarious
Nostradamus you idiot
Who did wha
Nah it's my hound dog, nostrildamus.......
I bet that grocery store never got robbed while that club was there....
This song fits the video so perfectly. A eerie type of song for a eerie type of characters at their off limits to the public headquarters.
It's perfect. It brings me back to a time walking those rundown streets with my walkman. No electronic device for help, no camera on every corner. It really was the last days of the wild west before the surveillance age. People had the balls to kidnap and murder on a street corner with a solid chance of getting away with it. I actually preferred that era.
I wonder if that's Gary Newman It's sounds like 😊 😁
Sick nostalgic footage, perfect 80s track to go with it!
You don't ride down the road in one of those Lincolns. You float .
The Lincoln. The music. The entrance.
Johnny real soprano scene entrance 😍
Sofiane I know. I own a mark iv here in north Jersey a few block away from the pork store.
Still driving them Lincolns brah
The judges, the lawyers, the jail, the funerals, the Lincoln, the exit, the music, the end 🙁
I absolutely love these gritty city old school janks
Janks lol
@@jbweld6193 lol I learned that word from a Virginia Beach boy
@@DennisAlexioAndyHug ole death from lockdown 23 &1?
@@jbweld6193 Exactly OL'DEATH
@@DennisAlexioAndyHug lol I watch him too. Realest guy on UA-cam.
Wow...just wow...I can’t quite get over how amazing this footage is
I love the atmosphere of the 1970s and 80s, it looked so cool and grim.
yea cus it was so grimy back then the people u see in nyc today would never want to even drive there back then crime was every where.
I loved it. Born Brooklyn in 72.
THIS LOOKS LIKE SOMETHINF OUT OF A MOVIE SCENE BUT THIS IS REAL LIFE DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS 💯
That Lincoln at the beginning with the music is just perfect match awesome!!
This channel is seriously incredible
you deserved a grammy for this viedo
Remember as kid when I walked street and look down at my feet/ground and my Nona saw me walking with head down was mad,told me hold your head up,don't have nothing to shame,only embarrassed people walk with eyes down...
Now every man walks with his head down in his phone
The MOB asking to buy you ice cream.......CLASSIC!!!
It's not like you buy their heroin there. The Italian mafia buys drugs from the Cartels, and send the drugs to be sold in black and hispanic neighborhoods.
absolutely amazing footage! Sadly those days are gone forever…
One of my favorite videos on UA-cam
Those times makes my time now days look depressing as shit...this clip is awesome...👍😎
It is shot. This could be Boston on Prince street hours before a Bruins game. Watch " The Friends of Eddie Coyle".
Vice versa in my opinion music is trash, make u feel old asf plus all those old dudes just being nosy and grumpy the usual but yea dont like it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hope you can find more videos of the mob like this one . absolutely brilliant video 👊
The Marte's Grocerie was the safest place to work and do business without been afraid of getting robbed.