I grew up in the same neighborhood as Carmine Imbriale, the subject of my latest book, "Carmine & the 13th Avenue Boys: Surviving the Bloody South Brooklyn Colombo Mob." So one of the things I enjoyed most while writing this book was revisiting that time and place, but with a deeper dive into the dark side of Brooklyn in the 1980s. While Carmine was hustling down on 13th Avenue, I was growing up on the corner of 77th Street and 16th Avenue … [Read more...]