![]() ![]() The woman with the flaming red hair who was once a bartender at the Bamboo Lounge lived in Canarsie up until a few years ago and she had stories to tell. ![]() ![]() Canarsie doesn’t look much different now than it did when Roy hung out there: Holy Family is still the anchor of the Catholics in the community and it still rings its bell on Sundays, though the parishioners who now flock there are mostly West Indian.īut there’ s still a pocket of Canarsie’s old Italian stock living around the main drag on Rockaway Parkway near the fire station, and according to at least one account, they still have clout. Roy was a homegrown boy who was born in Flatlands but sowed his wild oats not far from the bar just fifteen minutes down the road in Canarsie, a reputed stronghold of the Lucchese crime family and home of the Bamboo Lounge that was featured in the movie Goodfellas. Let me know if you have any others.On most nights when the traffic subsides on Flatlands Avenue and the buses float down the street mostly empty, you might look up in the sky over the little storefront church with the white walls and maroon awning with the cross on it, and if you let your imagination run riot, you might see the ghosts of all those wise guys who were murdered there and chopped up in what used to be a bar called the Gemini Lounge that also doubled as a killing factory for a local mobster named Roy DeMeo and his crew. DeMeo's mood swings were becoming a problem he had become a loose cannon. The hit was almost certainly ordered by DeMeo's boss Nino Gaggi most likely on orders from boss Paul Castellano. When I interviewed Kuklinksi, he implied that he killed DeMeo. Kuklinski told me DeMeo beat him up when he didn't produce films fast enough to meet customer demand. At night Kuklinski freelanced, reproducing porn flicks, and one of the retailers he supplied was a porn palace in Point Pleasant, NJ owned by DeMeo. More: Kuklinski worked in a film lab in lower Manhattan owned by Gambio capo Robert DiBernardo. Kuklinski told me he had introduced Malliband to DeMeo, making him responsible for the debt in DeMeo's eyes. Police confirmed the Malliband-DeMeo connection. Malliband owed money to DeMeo and refused to pay up. Kuklinski's was one of them.įurther evidence: Kuklinski confessed to the murder of George Malliband. DeMeo was under surveillance in the early '80s, and the police routinely took down the plate numbers of the cars parked around the bar. (For example, the Hoffa killing and the Castellano hit.) As for his association with DeMeo, the late Kenny McCabe of the NYPD confirmed that Kuklinski had been at the Gemini Lounge in Brooklyn (DeMeo's headquarters) on several occasions. He told me a lot of the same stories he told Carlo, but if I couldn't verify it, I didn't put it in my book. Kuklinski told so many tall tales, it was hard to separate truth from his inflated self-image. So I emailed Anthony Bruno back in 2012 asking if their were any proof of Kuklinski working Demeo. Please report any submissions that violate our rules. Continued abuse will result in permanent ban. Abusive comments will be subject to removal. Vote manipulation on submissions will result in a permanent ban.īe Respectful. Violation can result in a permanent ban of your username and website domain. If you're not sure if you qualify, please message the mods. If you are a very active contributor to the subreddit, you are allowed to occasionally submit the best content from your site. Keep self-promotional posts to a minimum. Please only share organized crime related content. R/Mafia Rules & Resources This sub-reddit features stories, interviews, documentary and news articles about organized crime around the world. ![]()
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