Go To Part 2 One hundred years ago this month, New York City gangster Johnny Spanish was dramatically gunned down in front of a Second...

Go To Part 1 Around dusk on Friday, September 23, 1910, Kid Dropper was walking through the teeming slums of the Lower East Side. Perhaps ...

Salvatore Lucania, widely known as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, late in 1931 became the most powerful crime boss in the U.S. He pers...