Vincenzo Terranova
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| Born | May 15, 1886 Counterfeiting (1910) |
Vincenzo "the Tiger of Harlem" Terranova (May 15, 1886 – May 8, 1922) was a
Terranova was born in Corleone, Sicily in 1886.[1] He was the first son of Bernardo Terranova, a member of the Mafia in Corleone, and his wife Angelina Piazza. Angelina had a son from a previous marriage, Giuseppe Morello, and would later give birth to Vincenzo's two brothers, Ciro Terranova and Nicolo Terranova.[1] Vincenzo, Nicolo and Ciro along with other relatives emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York on March 8, 1893.[1] Giuseppe Morello had immigrated to New York the previous year and sometime in the 1890s founded a gang known as the 107th Street Mob, which evolved into the Morello crime family. His three half brothers would eventually join him in this enterprise.
Death
On May 8, 1922, Vincenzo Terranova was gunned down in a
Vincenzo and his three brothers lie in bare graves in
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-99030-1.
- ^ "Vincenzo Terranova". GangRule.com. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
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- ISBN 978-1-84737-173-7.
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