On July 12, 1979, the Brooklyn mob met its tragic end at Joe and Mary's Italian-American Restaurant. As Carmine Galante and his associates, including Giuseppe Turracano and Lorenzo Mannarino, stepped out for a lunch meeting, they were ruthlessly gunned down in a hail of automatic weapon fire. The hit was orchestrated by the rival Lucchese crime family, who saw Galante as a threat to their operations. The assassination sent shockwaves through the underworld, signaling the end of an era and the rise of a new generation of mobsters.
