Jimmy Calandra was wheelman and driving with him were William 'Applehead' Galloway, Joey Calco and Tommy Reynolds.Īround Bay Street and Cropsey Avenue, they beeped Neil.

The hit was organized and the team locked and loaded. We can't get to Romano, so we'll kill his friend.' The only potential problem was that Neil was on record with George Conte. When the Bath Avenue Crew learned this, Paulie G changed the order: 'Kill Neil. But Romano, who knew Adamo was connected to Spero, disappeared from Brooklyn and hid in Manhattan, though occasionally he'd visit Neil Nastro, who lived by the intersection of 15th and Benson.Īnthony Spero with his godson, Little Georgie Adamo. Paulie G told the others to find Romano and kill him. He died in front of his house inside the car. He got into Stevie's car with a knife and Fat Stevie took the knife from him and plunged it into Georgie's heart, killing him. Georgie had tried to rob 'Fat Stevie,' who dealt crack cocaine. The cops knew this but there were no witnesses. Called 'Georgie Goggles,' he and Luchese capo George 'Georgie Neck' Zappola were later charged for the slaying of painters union official and potential government witness James Bishop on orders from underboss Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso. George Conte back then was a capo in the Luchese family. Often, law enforcement-NYPD, DA's detectives, the Feds-knew who the killer was, but knowing and having the evidence to prove it in court are two different things and can be worlds apart.

But bullets also flew in broad daylight, sometimes just across the street from a police station. The victims were shot late at night or in the early morning when no witnesses were around. Some were buried, many never to be found. In places like Bath Avenue, the remains of violent gangland hits were found in car trunks or slumped over steering wheels they ripened in the backs of trucks and vans. In the late 1980s/early 1990s, mobsters and associates were routinely murdered in all of New York's boroughs.

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