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has gloss | eng: The Palma Boys or Salerno or East 116th Crew was a La Cosa Nostra or mafia street crew under the Genovese crime family flag. The crew was based out of the Palma Boys Social Club located 416 East 115th Street, East Harlem in Manhattan, New York. The leader of the crew was former Genovese crime family member and onetime Acting Boss, Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, who could usually be found sitting out front on patio furniture smoking his ever-present cigar holding meetings with underlings or in the kitchen cooking some Italian dish for the boys. Tony Salerno came up in the Genovese crime family in the crew of caporegime, Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola and his 116th St. Crew. Coppola himself was an old-time East Harlem gangster that went back to the days of the Morello crime family. Coppola was a top lieutenant to Morello group leader Ciro "The Artichoke King" Terranova, the patriarch of the 116th St. crew. Coppola took over the Terranova crew sometime between 1932 and 1936, Terranova being put on the shelf and forced into retirement by the new Luciano-Genovese-Costello regime of the Luciano crime family, later known as the Genovese crime family. |
lexicalization | eng: Palma Boys Crew |
instance of | c/Italian-American mobsters |
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