Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was by Daniel Golio

Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was

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Pleasant Avenue and 114th street

Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was


Crime in the Pleasant Avenue section of Manhattan dates back to 1882, when one August morning, a police officer discovered the body of a man in an empty lot on Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem. His clothes were covered in mud. His skull had been fractured, his throat cut. The stab wound was of such force that it penetrated to the spinal column. The police believed the man was a peddler who was the victim of a robbery, for there was nothing of value found in his pockets.

Pleasant Avenue by: Daniel Golio

Overview

In 1930, a six-year-old boy named Mario, looks out of his bedroom window and witnesses a murder. He is terrified when questioned by the police so he refuses to identify the shooter, and a friendly close allegiance develops between Mario and the mafia hit man, Richie Rio. Mario struggles to survive in New York City’s East Harlem, an environment plagued with roaches and rats.

“Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was”, tells the story of Italian immigrants surviving in the slums of Pleasant Avenue on New York City's East -side. Told thru the eyes of an Italian-American boy growing up during the great depression. From his early days as a young boy growing up on the real streets of little Italy.


Pleasant Avenue known as Italian Harlem

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“Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was”, tells the story of Italian immigrants surviving in the slums of Pleasant Avenue on New York City's East -side. Told thru the eyes of an Italian-American boy growing up during the great depression. From his early days as a young boy growing up on the real streets of little Italy to the origins of the real Italian mob (116th Street Crew) to his contribution in World War II and finally his participation in the Manhattan Project and the spies who tried to steal top secret classified information from the military installation known as Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rao's Restaurant


Rao's Restaurant is located at 455 East 114th Street in East Harlem. In 1896 it opened as a saloon, one room with a bar, purchased by Charles Rao, the italian restaurant has had a mafia past since the begining. First by selling bootleg wine made by the people who lived on the streets of 114st street to wiseguys and gangsters like Fat Tony Salerno, Lucky Luciano and John Gotti. . .

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