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2 Broadway is an office building at the south end of Broadway, near Bowling Green Park, in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City.The 32-story building, designed by Emery Roth & Sons and constructed from 1958 to 1959, contains offices for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). 2 Broadway serves as the headquarters for some of the MTA's subsidiary agencies.
The Broadway Mob was a New York bootlegging gang during Prohibition. Although headed by Joe Adonis, the gangs day-to-day operations were handled by Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Frank Costello as well as financially backed by Arnold Rothstein. During Manhattan's bootleg wars, Rothstein would bring in the Bugs and Meyer Mob, led by Meyer Lansky ...
Died. November 18, 2009. (2009-11-18) (aged 77) Butner, North Carolina. Gregory J. DePalma (April 24, 1932 [1] – November 18, 2009, Butner, North Carolina) was a caporegime in the Gambino crime family who was responsible for introducing an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent in his crew.
The MTA used 347 Madison Avenue as its headquarters from 1979 to 2014 when the agency moved to 2 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. The Madison Avenue office building was developed in 1917 and was once ...
Utano harkened back to the infamous 1966 transit worker strike that shut down subway and bus service during another contract dispute. The MTA's "vicious" demands this year "make 1966 seem tame ...
A train with mechanical problems had to be removed from the Beverly Road station in Brooklyn which caused 2 and 5 train delays in both directions about 20 minutes later, the MTA said.
John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli (born Filippo Sacco; July 4, 1905 – August 7, 1976), sometimes spelled Rosselli, was a mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped that organization exert influence over Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip. Roselli was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel ...
A Bronx Tale is a 1993 American coming-of-age crime drama film directed by and starring Robert De Niro in his directorial debut and produced by Jane Rosenthal, adapted from Chazz Palminteri 's 1989 play of the same name. It tells the coming-of-age story of an Italian-American boy, Calogero, who, after encountering a local Mafia boss, is torn ...