LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 1 | “Five Points Gangster”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1800s, millions of immigrants come to the United States for the opportunity for a better life. Among those who come from Sicily is a boy named Salvatore Lucania who will be known as Charles “Lucky” Luciano. Luciano grows up on the mean streets of New York’s Lower East Side and gravitates toward a life of crime. When Prohibition begins, Luciano becomes a prominent bootlegger and finds a mentor in Arnold Rothstein. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	in the UK, giving up their life for a new identity in a safe
0:40.2	house. But what happens when it all goes wrong? Three shot, two male, one female. And the detective
0:48.1	inspector is Nile. It's a safe house. Sheltering, a protective witness and his family. Who did this?
0:53.5	I am going to find out, I promise.
0:55.4	Protection starts Sunday the 16th of March on ITV1 and ITVX. Possibly no phrase fits life in organized crime better than survival of the fittest.
1:20.8	Mobsters constantly vied for power and would do whatever it took to grab it. Only the smartest
1:26.1	and most ruthless could make it to the top.
1:29.4	By 1922, the man at the top of the crime hierarchy in East Harlem and much of Brooklyn was Giuseppe
1:36.3	Joe Mazaria. Joe was a Sicilian immigrant who came to America in the late 1910s and quickly
1:44.1	rose up the ranks of Manhattan's
1:46.0	underworld. To do so, Joe did whatever it took, and he made lots of enemies in the process.
1:53.3	Joe had dropped quite a few bodies and betrayed quite a few people to achieve power in the streets,
1:58.8	and his rivals quietly plotted his demise.
2:02.8	It was only a matter of time before someone went after him.
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