Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the
Greenpoint streetscape on Manhattan Avenue (2014)
Kent Street
Lorimer Street
The Greenpoint Wood Exchange, where lumber is processed
Sonny Franzese
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John "Sonny" Franzese Sr. was an American mobster who was a longtime member and former underboss of the Colombo crime family.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
…Joseph Di Prisco (born 1950), poet, novelist, memoirist, book reviewer and teacher John Franzese (1917–2020), mobster Jack Houghteling, novelist…
Undated mugshot of Franzese
Franzese (left) with boxer Rocky Graziano (center) and Sebastian Aloi (right) in the 1940s
FBI surveillance photo of Franzese and his son John Franzese Jr. in 2005