The Suburban Bookie of the Colombo Family – Arthur Berk

In March 1962, Nassau Vice Squad detectives raided a betting office within the county and arrested Berk and Di Vincenzo on bookmaking charges after listening to both of them taking telephone bets over “wiretapped” lines.

Arthur Berk was born in 1930. He resided at 376 Cochran Place on Long Island in the Valley Stream area. By the early 1960s, Artie Berk had been identified by the Nassau County Rackets Squad as a Colombo Family “associate.”