Generoso Nazzaro
Joe ‘Chuck’ Nazzaro arrived in New York in 1901.
He was arrested in late July, 1913, with Giosue Gallucci and John Russomano. The three men were charged with carrying concealed weapons. Nazzaro was sentenced to a year on Blackwell’s Island. A benefit was held on his return to help raise money. He sold his café on E108th Street to Carmelo Mollico, shortly after the sale Mollica was ambushed and killed. Nazzaro was arrested but discharged 3 weeks later.
Nazzaro was a colleague of Joe DeMarco who had been chased out of Harlem by the Morello gang. After DeMarco’s murder, he aligned himself with the Neapolitan Navy Street gang but had been spotted talking to the Morellos in Harlem and was sentenced to death by the Neapolitans.
On March 16th, 1917, he was killed in Yonkers, NY. Fevrola, Sgroia, and the Paretti brothers, all from the Navy Street gang, lured him out to Yonkers under the pretence of killing Fevrola for giving the information to the police. They shot Nazzaro and left his body on the trolley tracks.
