“The old Metropole. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there . . . he went out on the sidewalk and they shot him three times in his full belly and drove away." The intersection of fact and fiction can sometimes keep alive events that would otherwise fade into the mist of time. The 1912 incident F. Scott Fitzgerald alluded to in
A lot has changed since then. But for the better?
Crooked cops and politicians in NYC, flabbergasted!
This was great, Jack. You manage to build excitement in a few short paragraphs. And the nicknames of the characters are hilarious.
Another good one Jack. Your stories are always so interesting. Love them