225 Sullivan Street
Greenwich Village | built 1887
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1980
Mob boss Vincent Gigante, raised at 225 Sullivan Street, lives here in his mother's home in the 1980s
Gigante, who became head of the Genovese crime family, grew up in this tenement and by the 1980s generally lived here, in his mother's home. He was a neighborhood spectacle, seen at night in pajamas and a bathrobe crossing the street to play cards at the Triangle Civic Improvement Association at 208 Sullivan Street. He is thought to have dodged law enforcement for three decades by faking mental illness, and began a 12-year prison sentence in 1997.
“Gigante generally resided at this address, which was at that time his mother's home. ... seen nightly in his pajamas and bathrobe…”
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