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The Lucchese crime family (pronounced [lukˈkeːze; -eːse]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia. Members refer to the organization as the Lucchese borgata; borgata (or brugard) is ...
Career Girls Murders. The " Career Girls Murders " was the name given by the American media to the murders of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie, which occurred inside their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, on August 28, 1963. [1] George Whitmore Jr. was charged with this and other crimes, but he was later cleared.
New York (Manhattan) Shot when he did not drop the knife he was holding. [367] 2003-08-05: Washington, Denise (30) Colorado (Aurora) Washington was shot when she struck a policeman with a candlestick. She was off her mental illness meds. [368] 2003-07-23: Askew, Othniel (31) New York (Manhattan) Shot and killed after he assassinated councilman ...
Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
Interactive map of George Floyd protests with more than 100 participants in New York City. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was killed in an attempted arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A video of the incident, depicting the officer kneeling on Floyd's neck for an extended period, attracted ...
The 2020 United States presidential election in New York was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. [1] New York voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party ...