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Mafia
Ozone Park is widely perceived as a center for mafia activities. Lucchese crime family members and mob associates owned many businesses throughout Ozone Park. Jimmy Burke owned Roberts Lounge, which was a Lucchese headquarters.
Thomas DeSimone, a Lucchese crime family associate, shared an apartment here, with his then girlfriend, Theresa Ferrara. She was later murdered due to issues involving the 1978 Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport., 1978 and was the biggest heist in Queens history. As far as Lufthansa heist murders go,
"Stacks" Edwards was the first to be killed, in his Ozone Park home. Over time, a total of 13 "wiseguys" connected to the crime just “disappeared,” or turned up dead. Mangled bodies turned up all over New York City – from the bloodstained bedroom in Ozone Park to a meat hook in a refrigerated truck in Brooklyn.
Joseph Scopo ( Colombo Family capo) lived in Ozone Park. The first official hit that John Pappa made during his time as a Colombo Family associate was Scopo.
John Gotti co-opted the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club, which occupies a double storefront in the neighborhood at 98-04 101st Avenue. It has a red brick front with brightly painted red doors on the ground floor, and yellow aluminum siding above the ground floor.
The Bergin Hunt and Fish Club (John Gotti's headquarters) in Ozone Park." The Bergin Hunt and Fish Club (John Gotti's headquarters) in Ozone Park.
On February 9, 1990, many people in Ozone Park waited anxiously for the jury to reach a verdict on John Gotti's case. The Jury found him not guilty on four assault charges and two conspiracy charges. When the courtroom was cleared, the jubilant Gotti was escorted out of the courthouse through a private elevator reserved for judges. Once on the street, Gotti raised his fist in triumph for the crowds of supporters standing behind police barricades. In Ozone Park, cheers, celebratory fireworks, and red and yellow balloons greeted Gotti upon his return.
Gotti would host a huge block party and throw an amazing fireworks display on 101st Avenue every July 4th. His crew would grill hot dogs and hamburgers by the hundreds. Ice cream vendors were brought in to hand out free cones and pops to delighted children. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani became very unpopular here in the late 1990s when he denied local residents permits to host similar block parties along 101st Avenue in an effort to appear to apply uniform enforcement on such events city-wide. On July 4, 1995, Giuliani sent approximately 250 police officers to assure that Gotti and his crew did not throw his usual party for the Ozone Park community.
Later, in 1992, when Gotti went to prison for life (without the possibility of parole) for murder and other crimes, some neighborhood residents, led by Gotti's brother, protested his incarceration. When Gotti died in jail, many citizens of Ozone Park mourned. His funeral procession traveled through the city. Throughout Ozone Park, there were flowers and remembrance for the mobster.
Peter Gotti eventually became acting boss. He currently still resides in Ozone Park, near the Aqueduct Racetrack and JFK area.
May 5, 1981, Alphonse "Sonny Red" who lived on my block Indelicato and two of his associates, Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera, were shot to death in an ambush in a Brooklyn social club. Sonny Red's body was discovered three weeks later by children playing in a park in the Ruby St. lot AKA "Mafia Graveyard" in Ozone Park.
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Believed to be buried there included John Favara — The neighbor of John Gotti, who accidentally ran over John Gotti's son. Also believed to be buried there, Tommy DeSimone — the crazy hit man portrayed by Joe Pesci in the movie "GoodFellas" — and Bonanno crime family capos Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera, and Philip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone. The fifth man was described as a thug who refused to carry out the hit on DeSimone, only to wind up being personally killed by a furious Gotti. On Monday, December 20, 2004, DNA tests confirmed that the skeletal remains unearthed from the Ruby St. lot the previous October, are those of Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera and Philip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone. Neither Tommy DeSimone nor John Favara's remains were found in the Ruby St. lot excavation.
For the past two decades, a renowned Gambino Crime Family crew dubbed "The Ozone Park Boys" have committed numerous crimes in and around the neighborhood. The Capo of the crew, Ronald Trucchio was sentenced in 2006 for operating a $30 million-a-year gambling enterprise based in Ozone Park.
The Bergin Hunt and Fish Club (John Gotti's headquarters) in Ozone Park."