Pelligrino Morano
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Born: 1877
Nationality: Italian
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Pelligrino Morano was based in Coney Island where he owned the Santa Lucia restaurant. His associates Allesandro Vollero and Leopoldo Lauritano owned a coffee house at 133 Navy Street Brooklyn. The coffee house was used as the headquarters for their gang, which mainly consisted of Neapolitans. The collection of killers that made up the gang was often referred to as the “The Camorra”.
On June 24th 1916 a meeting took place at Coney Island between the Sicilian Morello gang, the Neapolitan Navy Street gang and the Neapolitan Coney Island gang. The idea of the meeting was to discuss the expansion of gambling dens in lower Manhattan. A plan that led to a string of murders across New York.
In May 1917, Ralph ‘The Barber’ Daniello, a member of the Brooklyn based Navy St gang, began to tell the police everything he knew about Morano, the Navy St crew and the recent murders.
Morano was later convicted of murder in the second degree in the case of Nicholas Terranova and Charles Ubriaco and sentenced to Sing Sing from twenty years to life.
