Given the numbers of times I’ve eaten at The Parkside Restaurant in Corona, Queens my photo must have been taken fifty times by the FBI and NYPD’s organized crime task force. This does not include visits to Frankie and Johnnie’s Pine Tavern and Dominick’s in The Bronx. The ACLU and NYTimes haven’t made much of the continuous surveillance of Italian American establishments in the last 60 years. Never bothered me. I usually try to find the vans and look at them and smile. I’ll be eating Snapper Livornese while they’ll be drinking bad coffee. As for the wiseguys. They’re bums and thugs and if they’re stupid enough to do something in front of the cameras they know are watching they deserve a trip to Atlanta.
same here but a different nationality venue as in irish pubs.
and back at that time, one guy confirmed it all by happily insisting he “knew” me when I had never laid eyes on him,and yapping on and on in irish to me as i played it back speaking only in spanish to him. The location was nowhere near a bar either.
The conversation continued as i continued to simply reply yo no se,por favor toca y me dejó pasar,etc( i am not the generic appearing irish either) and it turned out he was a fed and recognised me from reams of surveillance tapes.
small world,eh ?
I haven’t been in that place for years and it no longer exists either—is at the present a mexican sports bar.
anyone care ?
by today’s standards wouldn’t this be classified as harassment ?
was anyone irate to the point of lawsuits ? we all knew they were watching the bars and clubs . LOL !
and yeah,we acknowledge them all as well.