title: A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side
author:  Eric Ferrara 
description: Eric Ferarra is the founder and executive director of the Lower East Side History project, an award-winning nonprofit research organization. He also founded the East Village Visitor Center, as well as the first museum in America dedicated to gansterism. Ferrara is a popular public speaker, sits on a number of local boards and has consulted on numerous movie and television projects. A true product of the Lower East Side melting pot, Ferrara's ancestors arrived to New York City from Sicily (1880s), Ukraine (1909), Russia (1917) and Naples (1940s.) He is a fourth-generation native New Yorker and dedicated community activist. This is his second title as an author for The History Press.
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  # Marauder
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Gangsters of New York, Book 2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **This book is a work of fiction.**
  
  
  Names of characters, places, and events are the construction of the author,
  except those locations that are well-known and of general knowledge, and all
  are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is
  coincidental, and great care was taken to design places, locations, or
  businesses that fit into the regional landscape without actual identification;
  as such, resemblance to actual places, 