
(Pictured: Anthony ‘The Roach’ Rampino (center) enters the Ravenite.)ģ. Today the Ravenite is ‘Shoe,’ a trendy boutique that keeps gangster’s hours, not opening until noon. The FBI later planted a bug in the hallway and in an upstair’s apartment used by Gotti. On Christmas Eve 1985, days after the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano, the FBI watched as 200 members and associates in the Gambino family stopped by to pay homage to the new boss, John Gotti. The Ravenite Club: 247 Mulberry St., Manhattan. (Pictured: Roy Demeo & Albert Demeo, Jr.)Ģ.

It is around this time that an FBI bug in the home of Gambino family associate Angelo Ruggiero picked up a conversation between Angelo and Gene Gotti, a brother of John Gotti. Part of his crew were also the Gemini Twins, Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa, they were the most ruthless hitmen in the crew they were called this because they always worked together and always sat together in the Gemini Lounge.īy 1982, the FBI was investigating the enormous number of missing and murdered persons who were linked to DeMeo or who had last been seen entering the Gemini Lounge.

He would often lure his contracted hits or victims to the lounge where he would dispose of them using dismemberment executions which were known as the Gemini Method.

The Gemini Lounge in Flatlands was a hotspot for Roy DeMeo and his crew in the 1980’s. The Gemini Lounge: 4021 Flatlands Ave., Brooklyn Over the years the mob have used many social clubs in order to hold meetings, the following are a look at some of the most popular clubs used by the likes of the Gambino’s and Genovese crime families, then and now.ġ.
