On 2/24/08 11:21 PM, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Two window washers i worked with on Tishman Spier (5th and 55th)
; for a month we went over the side of the 55 story buildings talking story while i did anchor testing for dr. joan Eifort who owned the disfunct Colonna marble yards on the east river over by the con ed smoke stacks .
Many of an idle summer after noon was spent among the ruins of the marble yards over there swimming nude in the man made pool made of 5 ton marble blocks with pyrate girls making sunday small talk over shrimps on the barbie, and sipping ice cold rose .
The washing rig on 55 th was all anchored in and a 60's work of art
. Mel and johhnie were a couple of cons who had a sweet deal back in the hey day of the 60's washing windows over at the Sheridan and letting themselves into peoples rooms , relieaving cash and jewelry from the drawers where people kept it ............. but the deal was they only took part of the cash ; so the client goes down and claims he got boosted for $400 out of the $8oo in the drawer ....hows that going to look?
..it was a swell deal they said until they got into the nose candy got greedy and caught in a sting
I think they got t 5 and seved 3 and now were back on the job
they introduced me to a lawyer Rudy Gulianni who was trying to put away the Sammy Bull who was by proxie running local 62 my alma mater.....
.seems Sammy and the Rravenite social club (Queens) was getting 2% of the Vig in those days thats 2% of the entire contract..do the math
..I went to the hall that winter and looked up my rep , his room was a photo gallery of his favorite race horses and two bit boxers up and coming he too was up and coming
I think he got 5 and seved 3 that year in the same bust that took down Sammy . Py ... ...
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Two small points – It’s ‘Sammy the Bull’ not the Sammy Bull & the Vig is the interest on a loan – usually 10 -> 20% per week – of course from a loan shark.
Jim Hicks - educated by Stanley an Atlantic ave Jew tough guy who got me thru a lot of scrapes in Brooklyn in the 70’s
Also who was a hanging around (50’s) with the biggest numbers runner in Brooklyn at the time Ali Moses (Rbt’s nephew)
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