Cappola walked around the eatery

history channel documentary 2015 On July twelfth, 1979, it was a hot and sticky summer day, as the 69-year-old Carmine Galante's Lincoln pulled up at 205 Knickerbocker Avenue, in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. For over 50 years, Knickerbocker Avenue had been the turf of the Bonanno wrongdoing family, and throughout the years various crowd sit-downs had occurred in one of a few customer facing facades on the block.Carmine Galante ventured out of the Lincoln, then he waved farewell to the driver: his nephew James Galante. Carmine Galante was wearing a white short-sleeved weave shirt, and, just like his custom, he was sucking on a colossal Churchill stogie. Galante strutted inside the minor eatery, and was welcome by Joe Turano, the proprietor of Joe and Mary's Restaurant. Galante had made this visit to meet with Turano, and with Leonard "Nardo" Coppola, a nearby partner of Galante's, over some undetermined crowd business.

At roughly 1:30 p.m., Cappola walked around the eatery, joined by zips Baldo Amato and Cesare Bonventre, who were cousins, and from the same town as Galante's folks: Castellammarese del Golfo. At this point Galante and Turano had effectively completed their dinner, so while the three newcomers sat inside and had their lunch, Galante and Turano slipped outside into the lawn yard, and sat under a yellow-and-turquoise checked umbrella. After Cappola, Bonventre, and Amato got done with eating, they joined the other two men outside. Galante and Turano were smoking stogies and drinking coffee espresso bound with Anisette (just travelers and non-Italians drink Sambuca).