Charlie "Lucky" Luciano

AKA:

Father of Modern Organized Crime

Birth Name:

Salvatore Lucania

Birth Date:

November 24, 1897

Birth Place:

Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy

Death Date:

January 26, 1962

Place of Death:

Naples International Airport, Naples, Campania, Italy

Age:

Cause of Death:

Heart attack

Cemetery Name:

St. John Cemetery

Claim to Fame:

Crime and their Victims

Charles “Lucky” Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania) did more to create the modern American Mafia and the national criminal Syndicate than any other single man. Luciano led a group of young Italian and Jewish mobsters against the older set of so-called “Moustache Petes,” and in the process set the stage for the Mob to grow beyond the limits of bootlegging profits to become, in the words of his friend Meyer Lansky, “bigger than United States Steel.” In 1931, after the assassinations of Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, In 1931, Luciano and Meyer Lansky established a board known as the national syndicate composed of non-Italian Jewish members. Unlike his predecessors Luciano ran it along more effective business lines, put an end to disruptive gang fighting between the old Sicilian mobsters, and left behind their old-world Catholic prejudices of not working with Jewish gangsters. He died in Italy of a heart attack after being exiled after his prison sentence.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

St. John Cemetery

80-01 Metropolitan Avenue

Middle Village, New York, 11379

USA

North America

Map:

Grave Location:

Section 3, Range C, Grave 1

Grave Location Description

Drive past the main entrance at 80th Street and Metropolitan Avenue and continue down Metropolitan Avenue just a short distance and turn left into the cemetery. Drive straight ahead and you will see the Lucania Family mausoleum.