Salvatore DAquila

Salvatore “Toto” D’Aquila, a 54-year-old White male, was one of the most feared underworld figures in New York when his story ended in gunfire on October 10, 1928. By then he had built a reputation as an early Mafia boss whose influence stretched well beyond his neighborhood, and the years leading up to his death were filled with shifting alliances, gang rivalries, and the kind of quiet betrayals that often surfaced only after someone was already lying in the street.

That day in Ma ...