The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia-Fast Shipping

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“When Mom got out of jail, it was great having her home.”

Mondothe Dwarf. Frankie Shots. Joseph “Little Lolly Pop” Carna. Larry “BigLolly Pop” Carna. Salvatore “Sally Boy” Marinelli. Johnny Tarzan. LouiePizza. Sally D, Bobby B, Roy Roy, and Punchy.

They were THE PRESIDENT STREET BOYS of Brooklyn, New York.

FrankDimatteo was born into a family of mob hitmen. His father and godfatherwere shooters and bodyguards for infamous Mafia legends, the Gallobrothers. His uncle was a capo in the Genovese crime family andbodyguard to Frank Costello. Needless to say, DiMatteo saw and heardthings that a boy shouldn’t see or hear.

He knew everybody in the neighborhood. And they knew him. . .and his family. And does he have some wild stories to tell. . .

Fromthe old-school Mafia dons and infamous “five families” who called allthe shots, to the new-breed “independents” of the ballsy Gallo gang whodidn’t answer to nobody, Dimatteo pulls no punches in describingwhat it’s really like growing up in the mob. Getting his cheeks pinchedby Crazy Joe Gallo until tears came down his face. Dropping out ofschool and hanging gangster-style with the boys on President the Gallos wage an all-out war against wiseguys with morepower, more money, more guns. And finally, revealing the shockingdeathbed confessions that will blow the lid off the sordid deeds,stunning betrayals, and all-too-secret history of the American Mafia.

Originally self-published as Lion in the Basement

Raves For THE PRESIDENT STREET BOYS: Growing Up Mafia

“FrankieD was born and raised in this life—and he’s still alive and still don’t come any sharper then Frankie D. A real gangster story. Read this book!” —Nicky “Slick” DiPietro, New York City

“Iknow Frankie D from when i was a kid living in South Brooklyn. It washard reading about my father, Gennaro “Chitoz” Basciano, but I knew itwas the truth. Frankie’s book is dead on the money—I couldn’t put itdown.” —Eddie Basciano, somewhere in Florida

“It’s been fortyyears since I’ve been with Frankie D doing our thing on PresidentStreet. This book was like a flashback, Frankie D nails it frombeginning to the end. Bravo, from one of the President StreetBoys.” —Anthony “Goombadiel” DeLuca, Brooklyn, New York

“As aneighborhood kid I grew up around President Street and know firsthandthe lure of ‘the life’ as a police officer and as a kid that escaped thelure. I can tell you the blind loyalty that the crews had for theirbosses—unbounded, limitless, and dangerous. As the Prince of PresidentStreet, Frank Dimatteo, is representative of a lost generation ofItalian Americans. If any of this crew had been given a fair shot at thebeginning they would have been geniuses in their chosen field.” —Joseph “Giggy” Gagliardo, Retired DEA Agent, New York City

“The President Street Boys takes me back as if it was a time machine. Its authenticity iscompelling reading for those interested in what things were really likein those mob heydays; not some author’s formulation without an inklingof what was going on behind the scenes. I loved the book because I wasthere, and know for sure readers will love it too.” —Sonny Girard, authorof Blood of Our Fathers and Sins of Our Sons