Generossi Nazzaro

Joe “Chuck” Naz­zaro, of 339 E108th, arrived in New York in 1904.

He was arrested in late July, 1913 in con­nec­tion with gam­bling and pol­icy. Gio­sue Gal­lucci was also arrested along with his nephew John Rus­so­mano, all were charged with car­ry­ing con­cealed weapons. Naz­zaro was jailed for ten months, and released in May 1915. To help him raise some money a ben­e­fit was held on his return. Naz­zaro sold his café in E108th to Carmine Mol­lica, shortly after the sale Mol­lica was ambushed and killed. Naz­zaro was arrested but later released.

Joe Naz­zaro was a col­league of Joe DeMarco who had been chased out of Harlem by the Morello gang. After DeMarco’s mur­der, Naz­zaro aligned with the Neapoli­tan Navy Street gang but had been spot­ted talk­ing to the Morello gang in Harlem, and was sen­tenced to death by the Neapolitans.

On March 16^th 1917, Joe Naz­zaro was shot and killed in Yonkers NY. Fevrola, Sgroia, and the Paretti broth­ers, all from the Navy St gang lured Naz­zaro out to Yonkers under the pre­tence of killing Fevrola for giv­ing the police infor­ma­tion about a gang. The gang then shot Naz­zaro and left his body on the trol­ley tracks.

Frank Fevrola, on April 18^th 1921, was tried for the mur­der of Joe Naz­zaro in 1917. Judge Tomp­kins found Fevrola guilty and sen­tenced him to the death house at Sing Sing.

Aniel­lio Paretti of 23 Sher­man Av, Brook­lyn, was tried for the mur­der of Joe Naz­zaro in 1917. He was released from Sing Sing in July 1923.