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More on the Mob

We’re still reveling in yesterday’s excitement of seeing Boardwalk Empire set up a mock-prohibition-era scene in the East Village.  In fact, we’re drinking Mint Juleps and listening to Cole Porter right now.  Okay, we don’t get quite that crazy at the office, but we have been thinking more about the neighborhood’s connections to prohibition and […]

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Prohibition Revisits the East Village

Get out your trilby hats and flapper dresses- Boardwalk Empire, the HBO Prohibition-era mob drama, is filming right here on East 12th Street and 2nd Avenue at John’s Italian Restaurant.  Set in Atlantic City, the series often departs to New York to check in with Jewish mob boss Arnold Rothstein and his then-“employee” Sicilian-American gangster […]

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