The Mob And the City
“Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)Don't ask me why, but people seem to want to come to a mob place. Maybe it's the excitement of mingling with mobsters.—Vincent “Fat Vinnie” Teresa, My Life in the Mafia (1973)Thirty-year-old Frank Sinatra walked off stage after 2:00 a.m. to the whistles of adoring patrons under the papier-mâché palm trees of the Copacabana in midtown Manhattan. Sinatra had flown in from Hollywood, where he'd been filming It Happened in Brooklyn, to make a surprise appear...ance beside comedian Phil Silvers (who later played Sergeant Bilko on The Phil Silvers Show). In the audience were Broadway singer Ethel Merman, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sidney Kingsley, actress Paula Stone, and restaurateur Toots Shor. Gliding among them were the “Copa Girls,” the nineteen-year-old ingénues whose long legs and demure smiles became club trademarks under the talented management of Monte Prosser.1Presiding over the Copa behind the scenes was its hidden owner, Frank Costello.MoreLess
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