We want volume business not a nickel and dime side show. Alphabet City 1984 starring Vincent Spano & Michael Winslow & Jami Gertz & Zohra Lampert & Kenny Marino & Kate Vernon et al, director Amos Poe, supplier to supplier
Quick, you’re not a gangster. We’re not. We’re club owners. We run a dance hall. Calhoune ... he’s a cold-hearted killer. He’ll have your ass killed. Now, the man probably doesn’t know about La Rue yet. But in the morning, he’s going to want you really dead. So, we got to find a place where we can lay low. Till we can run the scam and split. Harlem Nights 1989 starring Richard Pryor & Eddie Murphy & Ji-Tu Cumbuka & Redd Foxx & Dannny Aiello & Michael Lerner & Jasmine Guy & Della Reese & Berlinda Tolbert & Stan Shaw et al, director Eddie Murphy, Sugar Ray
So you’re saying you want to rob $20 million from Arthur Shaw? Tower Heist 2011 starring Alan Alda & Eddie Murphy & Ben Stiller & Alan Alder & Matthew Broderick & Casey Affleck & Judd Hirsch et al, director Brett Ratner, co-conspirator
Why don’t we take the whole thing? ibid. Stiller
You don’t know women: if you’re nice to ’em they start running your life. Little Tough Guy 1939 starring The Dead End Kids & Huntz Hall & Billy Halop & Robert Wilcox & Helen Parris & Jackie Searl & Peggy Stewart et al, director Harold Young, Johnny
Come on, I’ll take you one at a time. ibid. Johnny
I envy you your disorganised lives. ibid. new posh kid
Hey you, shut off that music box, will you? Lights of New York 1928 starring Helene Costello & Cullen Landis & Mary Carr & Wheeler Oakman & Gladys Brockwell & Robert Elliott & Eugene Pallette et al, director Bryan Foy, opening scene first lines spoken in film
I’ve lived and I’ve loved and I’ve lost. ibid. Molly
That was what I was. I worked the rackets. Dirty rackets. Ugly rackets. I was no hypocrite. I knew everything I did was low and rotten. I knew what people thought of me. What difference did it make? The Gangster 1947 aka Low Company starring Barry Sullivan & Belita & Joan Lorring & Akim Tamiroff & Harry Morgan & John Ireland & Sheldon Leonard & Fifi D'Orsay & Virginia Christine & Elisha Cook junior, director Gordon Wiles
Is this it, Priest? The Pope’s new army? Gangs of New York 2002 starring Leonardo Di Caprio & Daniel Day-Lewis & Cameron Diaz & Liam Neeson & Jim Broadbent & Henry Thomas & Brendan Gleeson & Gary Lewis & John C Reilly et al, director Martin Scorsese
Don’t never look away. ibid. Priest’s dying words to son
New York City 1946: Hellgate House of Reform. ibid. sign
New York was a city full of tribes. War chiefs. Rich and poor. It wasn’t a city really. More a furnace. ibid. commentary
There were thirty-seven amateur fire brigades. And they all fought each other. ibid.
All of us together we ain’t got a gang: we got an army. ibid. Amsterdam to others
The city was split in half; from all over New York they came. ibid. commentary
I was about my father’s business. ibid.
It was like everything we knew was mightily swept away. ibid.
If I had compassion I’d shove a 357 up your arse and blow your brains out. The Border aka Border Cop 1980 starring Telly Savalas & Danny De La Paz & Eddie Albert & Michael V Gazzo & Cecilia Camacho & Robin Clarke & Mary McCusker & Herman Blood et al, director Christopher Leitch
So now let me tell you a few things about the job. The Hot Rock 1972 starring Robert Redford & George Segal & Rob Leibman & Paul Sand & Moses Gunn & Zero Mostel et al, director Peter Yates, Segal to Redford
Next time those busybodies ask you what I’m striking for you tell them it’s for money coming to me for hard work. Dead End 1937 starring Sylvia Sidney & Joel McCrea & Humphrey Bogart & Wendy Barrie & Claire Trevor & Allen Jenkins et al, director William Wyler, sister to brother
Just leave us alone. You never brought nothing but trouble. ibid. mother
He came around asking for Rosy. She told him to stay away. I told him again. He got tough so I laid a couple on him. Railroaded! 1947 starring Jane Randolph & John Ireland & Shiela Ryan & Hugh Beaumont & Cliancy Cooper & Roy Gordon et al, director Anthony Mann, accused
Mike, is that motherfucker there? Let me talk to him. Chuck, I’m going to tell you something. You have that fucking hundred in my hands tomorrow. If you ain’t got that two hundreds in my hands tomorrow, I’ll break every fucking bone in your body. I swear to my kids. You understand? Fear City: New York vs The Mafia s1e1: Mob Rule, Netflix 2020, tapes
People once called New York Fun City. Now police and fireman’s unions in New York are calling it Fear City. ibid. television news
1970s New York: A lawless city plagued by drugs, violence and murder … ‘It’s a story about New York. It’s a story about horrible acts of violence. And then it’s a story about greed for money and power and dominance.’ … ibid.
Five untouchable Mafia families hold the city in their grip. This is a story of the men and women who attempt the impossible: to bring down the Mob. ibid.
Our biggest task force ever: we were going to bug the Mafia. ibid. rozzer
In the 1970s the city of New York was owned by the Mob. ibid. Curtis Sliwa
Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese … New York was total anarchy. The Bronx was burning every night. ibid.
New York was in the grip of the Mafia. The government wasn’t much in control of anything. ibid. DOJ dude
Using Rico, a person could now be convicted because they ordered someone to do a crime. ibid.
Going after the bosses of all five families. When he first broached that to me, I had my doubts. ibid. DOJ dude #2
It was a total immersion into the life of a Mafia household … It was a real slow-going art. ibid. tape transcript woman
He [Castellano] was having a torrid affair with his maid [Gloria Olarte]. ibid.
The early ’80s was a golden era of our life, the Mob. New York was the seat of power for that life all over America. Fear City: New York vs The Mafia s1e2: The Godfather Tapes, Curtis Sliwa
The intention was to develop a Rico case against each of the families. We decided that we tap five family squads. ibid. DoJ dude
They realised we had bugs all over the place. ibid.
You cannot be in the narcotics business and stick it in your stomach. You can’t be in the junk business without going on the fucking streets. ibid. gangsta
There’s a fucking dispute over fucking money. I gotta make a decision I hate to make. ibid.
The five bosses and the Commission had a lot of control over a lot of legitimate businesses, and not only that, the bosses were in business together. ibid. DOJ dude
Rudy Giuliani has this idea of prosecuting the board of directions of the Mafia. And he would like you to work as his deputy. ibid. prosecutor
In the 1980s there were buildings going up all across Manhattan. Fear City: New York vs the Mafia s1e3: Judgment Day
… There’s jobs that did count in there like Trump … ibid. building gangsta on tape
The Gambino squad was getting their information from a bug they had on Paul Castellano. ibid. DOJ rozzer
The Concrete Club: The Club was the key … There’s eight companies that participate in The Club. Each of those companies was connected to a Mob boss … Everything is fixed … A kickback of 2% … Every construction job in Manhattan over two million in value would pay the Mob. ibid.
Carmine Galante had eighty-four entrance and exit wounds in his body. Five people participated in that killing. ibid. DOJ sole lady rozzer
We are going to be arresting the bosses of all five families … I told my bosses, we gotta go right now. ibid. DOJ rozzer
New York City: by the end of the 1970s it was a city on its knees in a country that was losing its mind. The American dream had become a nightmare. And no place felt as rotten or as hopeless as New York. But suddenly, at the dawn of a new decade, there was something else in here: opportunity. It was everywhere in the ’80s and five New Yorkers pounced … By the end of the decade they had reshaped the city in their own image. But at what cost? Empires of New York s1e1: Chaos Spells Opportunity, DiscoveryPlus 2020