About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0580
  • TitleAnthony Maffetore
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0579), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two portraits in different sizes; 0579 is an enlarged mug shot. Caption (0580): "[Brooklyn resident] slick-haired Anthony (The Duke) Maffetore, hatless, is shown leaving the dictrict Attorney's office with a detective after questioning about two upstate gang murders. ... Maffetore is under indictment with Abe Reles and Martin (Buggsy) Goldstein for the Alex (Red) Alpert murder of 1933, said to have been a routine transaction in the business of the Brooklyn Murder-for-Money Gang."
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsidentification photographsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso of 0579: "Photo by Haberman;" 0580: ""Eagle staff photo." Title from inscription and caption on versos.
  • SubjectMaffetore, Anthony ; Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Maffetore, Anthony