[dp0622]

Agreed.

But they weren’t like blacks today, who are even nasty and dangerous to FRIENDS, no less Women.

My mom said they were all very respectful and generous before they went out and killed someone :)

I had some gangster friends growing up.

They were friends LONG before they were gangsters, just as all of the folks in these old neighborhoods.

Nothing to do with admiration.

Friends since 8 or 9 doesn’t change because of the life one chose.

At least it didn’t for me.

Or to be perfectly frank, I wouldn’t have been able to go to family parties either.

Those uncles and older cousins are all deceased now.

[ETL]

I grew up around a lot of mob people too. After we moved from the Lower East Side of Manhattan way back in 1970, we moved to a section of Queens bordering Ozone Park. OP is where Gotti's crew were originally based before they moved to Mulberry St in Little Italy not long after the Paul Castellano hit.