Interview · moment 8 of 15
Gotti's Reserved Table and Mob Restaurant Stories
from Antiseptic New York · #9
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3 minGuest
Ralph recalls working at his family's restaurant Ferrier where John Gotti had a standing reservation, a violinist getting a host beaten up, dating a hitman, and a garbage company refusing service due to mob territory.
- 22:51Gotti had a standing reservation at the back table of Ferrier restaurant on 65th and Madison in the late 80s.
- 23:09They brought a violinist in one night, and when the host asked them to tone it down because customers were complaining, Gotti's people beat the shit out of him.
- 23:35Tim would see the henchmen on the news the next day eating at the restaurant.
- 23:53A girl named Drita from Mob Wives was known to be dating a hitman at the time—it was just a given thing in that world.
- 24:10Tim speculates that hitmen are probably good in bed because they're focused on their craft.
- 24:28While running the restaurant, Tim tried to call a garbage removal company and gave them the address, but they hung up on him—he'd apparently called the wrong guys.
- 24:56When he told his father about the garbage companies refusing service, his father explained it was because of the mob's involvement in that business.
- 25:14Tim recommends old red sauce joints in New York like Cabone on Mulberry Street, which have been open since the seventies and had real mob figures as customers.
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