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Lucky Luciano’s Early Years

Luciano was born Salvatore Luciana in 1897 in the Sicilian sulfur mining town of Lercara Friddi. When he was 10 his family immigrated to New York, where by age 14 Luciano had racked up a record of arrests.

Did you know? Gangster Charles Luciano told various stories about how he got his nickname "Lucky.” Most involved escapes from murderous attacks, like one in 1929 that gave him his scarred chin and drooping right eye. The nickname has also been attributed to gambling luck, or to a simple mispronunciation of his last name.

By 1916 he was a leading member of the Five Points Gang and a friend of the rising Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky. He ran bootlegging rackets with Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, and by 1927 had been appointed the top lieutenant of Gieuseppi “Joe the Boss” Masseria, head of New York’s largest crime family. But Luciano chafed against Masseria, a traditional mob leader who spoke little English and harbored prejudices that got in the way of profits.

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Charles Luciano survived ‘gang ride’ 95 years ago

With unseasonably warm weather for a mid-October evening, Officer Henry A. Blanke dropped the convertible top of his Ford patrol car and set out from Staten Island’s Tottenville Station. He likely expected a quiet cruise down Hylan Boulevard. Blanke’s shift, however, would be anything but uneventful as the twilight hours commenced.

During the hazy purgatory between darkness and daylight, the young cop happened upon an unusual scene. A staggering silhouette appeared on a sparsely populated stretch of road near Huguenot Beach. As Blanke drove closer, he could see a disheveled figure stumbling in the beach terrain.

The officer pulled up to the individual, a battered and confused man covering much of his face with a bloodstained handkerchief. Blanke quickly scanned the immediate area for any signs of an auto accident, but there was nothing but sand and brush.

“What happened?” Blanke asked.

“I was taken for a ride,” the wounded man muttered.

Blanke discovered the mysterious man about 6 a.m. on October 17, 1929. The

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Lucky Luciano

Born: November 24, 1897, Sicily, Italy
Died: January 26, 1962, Naples, Italy
Nicknames: Lucky, Charlie Lucky
Associates: Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, the Five Families, the Commission, Bugsy Siegel

Charles “Lucky” Luciano, born Salvatore Lucania in 1897 in Sicily, probably 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.”

Luciano, who moved to the United States and settled in the Lower East Side with his family at age 10, was recruited early into gangster life and was a member of the Five Points Gang in Manhattan. Around the start of Prohibition in 1920, he was recruited as a gunman by Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, and a few years later Luciano went to work for Arnold Rothstein, anothe