Movie Stars! Books! J.Crew!
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Photo: Neil Rasmus for Patrick McMullan
Handsome author Tom Folsom introduced his book "The Mad Ones," a non-fiction account of "Crazy Joe" Gallo, a hipster mobster who became a minor celebrity (and later, the subject of a Bob Dylan song) in the '60s for his blending of Mafia thuggery with Greenwich Village counterculture. He was "whacked" in a hail of bullets in 1972, just two blocks from J.Crew's Broome Street store, at the still-open Umberto's Clam House. ("Maybe they were aiming for the chef," is the standard joke among those familiar with Umberto's menu.)
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