The articles and resulting movie reveals to the world how (Lakefront For Sale)
The articles and resulting movie reveals to the world how organized crime had infiltrated the New York Harbor, the world’s busiest port. The ’40s photo looking down on New York City shows hundreds of piers at the height of the waterfront’s extent and power. The interconnnected piers were the richest in the world.
This book shows America and New York at the pivotal time when shipping ruled the world. Back then, “money was more important than life itself.” It still is sometimes and some places. Corruption and violence on the waterfront were commonplace, as they were on the street of New York ‘The West Side Story’ . Pictures are interspersed throughout the book; one of them is of the Hudson River, showing the West Side piers at their peak in the ’30s.
