Michael Spillane

Michael J. “Mickey” Spillane, a 43-year-old Irish-American man, was killed on May 13, 1977, outside his apartment in Woodside, Queens. By then, he was no ordinary neighborhood figure; his name carried the weight of Hell’s Kitchen’s underworld, where he had long been known as a “gentleman gangster,” a boss who could rule through favors and fear, and who had spent years holding his ground in a city where larger crime families were always looking for openings.

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