Giuseppe Verrazano
Alias: Giuseppe Verrazano
Born:
Nationality:
Died: October 6th, 1916
Where: Broome St
Cause: Shot
Killer: Tony Notaro
Verrazano was a gambler based in lower Manhattan. He controlled several gambling houses and was know to most of the large gangs.
In 1916 , the Morello gang and Giuseppe Verrazano travelled to Navy St to discuss the plan to kill Joe DeMarco. Verizzano worked with DeMarco and was introduced as the man who would be able to help kill him. The Morellos were too well known by DeMarco for them to use their own gunmen. So together they created a plan where Verizzano would get the Navy St gunmen in to the James St gambling den, where he would then secretly identify DeMarco to the gunmen as the man to be shot.
Giuseppe Verrazano, who already had his own card games in Kenmare St, began to contemplate opening a new gambling house, this news did not sit well with the Navy St gang who began to plot his death. One day Verizzano spotted Lorenzo Liccari, from the Coney Island gang, sitting inside Frank Ferrara’s café on Grand Street. He began to sneak around the side of the café to kill Liccari, but he was spotted before he managed to shoot.
On October 6th, 1916, Charles Giordano from Staten Island, a policy man, saloon owner and friend of the Camorra made plans for the killing of Verizzano. Alphonso Sgroia, Mike Notaro, Ralph Daniello and John Mancini travelled to Manhattan where Giordano checked a saloon before locating Verizzano in the Italian Gardens restaurant in the Occidental Hotel, Broome Street. Sgroia and Notaro stood by the door shooting into the establishment. Verizzano was hit and killed. The gunmen escaped, one into the Bowery and one into Broome Street.
Angelo Giordano, the saloon keeper from Tompkinsville S.I. was put on trial on April 27th, 1918. He was charged with plotting the killing of Giuseppe Verrazano in October, 1916. Antonio Notaro and Ralph Daniello, from the Navy St gang, testified against Giordano. Notaro was quoted as saying “Giordano told us that Verrazano had to be killed that night. When I said that I did not want to kill a man without orders from my boss, Giordano said he would do the job himself but that I would die the next day for refusing, then I changed my mind”. Notaro claimed that Giordano led him to the restaurant on Broome St and pointed out Verrazano to be shot.
