![]() She stood as a beacon of hope in New York City harbor welcoming them with her torch of freedom. The homogeneous population of the neighborhood was mostly of Italian immigrants who had come proudly sailing by the Statue of Liberty. Lou told me that the apartment where he lived as a young boy was right across the hall from the apartment of the television actress, Rosemarie, who achieved fame as a child star and as a star on "The Dick Van Dyke" television show. ![]() My first innocent realization was when my brother-in-law, Louis Anthony "Louie Capp" C., told me about how he had grown up in Little Italy in Manhattan, New York City in the 1930s where his youthful environs were on Mott, Mulberry, and Canal Streets. I grew up living in a sea of organized crime and I didn't know it. ![]() ![]() I was born into a life where the "Mafia", "La Cosa Nostra" and "The Black Hand", ("La Mano Negra"), were all around me. ![]()
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