During the many organized crime-related research projects I’ve done over the past year or so, I’ve come across the many residences in various areas that mob guys have owned, leased, or rented, and resided in over the years. From lowly hangers-on to mob associates, soldiers, capo-regimes, and top hierarchy bosses, where they chose to hang their fedoras has run the gamut from broken-down hovels, and modest homes, to sprawling mansions.
From that Lucchese caporegime, Joseph (Joe Beck) DiPalermo chose to reside in a nondescript one-bedroom apartment in his boyhood neighborhood of New York’s Little Italy. Boss Carlo Gambino chose an oceanfront home in Massapequa along the Great South Bay.
Iconic boss Frank Costello lived in splendor in a sprawling multimillion-dollar, multi-acre estate in Sands Point, Long Island. Brooklyn boss Joe Profaci lived in a sprawling 328-acre estate in central New Jersey.
