Using street view from Google search, the corner by the Cooper Union in East Greenwich Village where Flaccomio was stabbed can be viewed in full color, as can the still-surviving 1870s building at 8 St. The brothers rushed back to the eatery and asked everyone to keep quiet. Carlo fatally stabbed Flaccomio in the chest. He left, and while walking about a block west near the Cooper Union building at East 8th Street and Third Avenue, two of the card players, brothers Carlo and Vincenzo Quartararo, confronted him. Marks Place when he got into a fierce row with others in the game. On the evening of October 14, 1888, Flaccomio was playing cards at a restaurant at 8 St.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.įlaccomio, a cigar dealer and associate of Sicilian mobsters, had narrowly escaped conviction in the murder of a tobacco merchant in 1884.

Now, immigrants from Italy and Sicily dominated Five Points. It was in 1888, in the crime-infested Five Points district where immigrant English nativist and Irish street gangs such as the Bowery Boys, Dead Rabbits and Whyos had fought decades earlier. In New York’s long, rich history of organized crime, the death of Antonio Flaccomio is considered the city’s first Mafia slaying.

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