Vandals Target Mob-Tied Restaurant

image from Pardon Me For Asking

Pre-Halloween vandals ransacked Carroll Gardens on Friday in one of the least intelligent fits of teenaged angst that we've heard of in a long time. The neighborhood blog Pardon Me For Asking reports that three teens ran wild on Court Street at around 2 am, "overturning newspaper stands at the corner of President Street, throwing planters they found in front gardens onto the street, and smashing the Marco Polo Valet Parking sign right through the back of this car."

What were these kids thinking? Anybody who knows anything about Brooklyn knows you don't mess with Marco Polo Ristorante! The popular red sauce Italian eatery isn't just famous for its chicken parm (which is superb), but also because its owner, Joseph Chirico, was indicted last year for extortion alongside dozens of other suspected Gambino crime family associates in a massive racketeering case. That's not Chirico's only link with organized crime. The restaurateur's old eatery, Gage and Tollner — which is currently on its way to becoming the world's most beautiful Arby's — was the scene of a bizarre 2001 extortion attempt when mobsters tried to bilk hundreds of thousands of dollars from aikido wizard and alleged actor Steven Seagal.

Anyways, the moral of the story is simple: don't throw valet parking signs through car windows — especially if the signs (or the cars) could in any way be tied to the mob.

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By Ben Muessig in News on November 2, 2009 9:48 AM

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NannyState

No more Sunday gravy for those brats.

JLRodP

alleged actor steven seagal? haha, you're funny. So exactly what isn't mob tied here in NYC?

catsinvasion

this looks more like class war then teen angst. keep it up!

T

How do you write something this long and meandering and not proof-read it?

redhookreject

there is no mafia in Carroll Gardens. NONE.

actually I've lived in the area for 15 years, and back when I moved in there would be persons on street corners for your protection. and if you happened to be anything other then white Italian American born within the bells of St Mary Star of the Sea, you could expect a spare at least.

I used to love when these guys would try and collect 20 to 50 bucks for a block party that never happened. These wanna be tough guys sold a little weed, a little blow, lived in the basement apartment of their grandmother's brownstone, and probably where out on long term disability from the DSNY. If you where ever home sick on a week day you say what do all these guys do?

Fifteen years on, they still live in the basement apartment, but rent the three floor above out to upwardly newcomers to the nabe. And dabble in real estate investment, in Bat Ridge.

The mob as it was, fueled by the waterfront, has dead off with the former longshoremen. The second generation have merged into the ownership class and their kids are spoiled brats, just like the upwardly newcomers.

My guess, its some kid who whose parents where born in Westchester, goes to private school and has long shaggy hair and a trust fund.

The kids of the old school mobsters are too fat to even lift that sign. 3000 grand in rent times three on a paid off house gets gets ya lotsa gravy and shells.