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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric Ferrara is a fourth-generation native New Yorker whose family has lived in Little Italy since the end of the nineteenth century. He is founder and director of the Lower East Side History Project, an award-winning nonprofit research organization; founder of the Museum of the American Gangster in New York City; and a consultant on several television and movie projects worldwide. This is his third title as an author for The History Press.

My great-grandfather Ernest “Cappy” Capitini (not a mobster) in his early-century Italian grocery store on Spring Street.

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