October 2023 issue contents - Features
NYC's first Mafia boss?
Sicilian underworld chief lived on Roosevelt Street
By Thomas Hunt
The United States Secret Service in January 1896 raided several locations to gather up the suspected members of a Sicilian-American counterfeiting ring. Among the suspects were Nicola Taranto and his wife Teresa, residents of 11 Roosevelt Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Law enforcement officials and the press had reason to believe that Taranto was the leader of mafiosi in New York, perhaps the leader of all mafiosi in the United States...
Book page count: seventeen.
Magazine page count: eight.
Images: four.
Sidebar articles: one.
Endnotes.
Magazine page count: eight.
Images: four.
Sidebar articles: one.
Endnotes.
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