Thank you for showing the old and new Canarsie. A lot of memories.I still have a few relatives in Canarsie. Be safe and have a great week.

Awesome work guys. Keep it up. I never get tired of the Goodfellas story, it got me into the mob genre back in 1990 when it came out. More please.

My old neighbor! Great place to grow up! The Bamboo used to be torched constantly. I know I lived a block away. The owner of the Bamboo was no slouch. He was connected and new the deal. The Bamboo later became Regis and then La Parc. Nice video!

This is unique and tremendous type of content. Really appreciate the quality and hard work put it in to this. Almost like investigative journalistic level of work. Quality work my man.

Shared on Facebook for my old Canarsie friends. Thanks for the memories!!

I hung out at the Canarsie Lounge,, a lot. DD’s lounge was right next-door, and the truckstop bar was right on the corner of E. 89th St. All on Avenue D. Across from all of that where BJ’s is now what is the Keyfood warehouse. I knew the Testa’s pretty well . .. As well as others you have mentioned.

Your obsession is much appreciated! Great videos!

Awesome video and good detail!! I grew up in Canarsie back in the 80s and 90s so it brings back memories. It was an awesome place to grow up with so many good people. I may have even gone to school with the grandkids of some of those Wiseguys. I also went to Nazareth.

Another fantastic video! I love hearing you talk about the history of the places you show us. You really know your stuff. I’m impressed with the amount of research you do before you go to the crime spots. 💫

Le Parc was a Disco type bar as I remember it. My roommate at the time was the D.J. there on Wednesday and Sunday nights. I grew up on 96st between Ave N and Seaview Ave. Great job guys thanks for the memories.

I was raised in Bensonhurst in the 70.s. Place was Mob run. Cafe on every corner. Every house had a tomato garden where the old generation Italians made their own sauce in the bsmt. A lot of your stories fit nicely with the stories I here from this area. Great accurate information. The horror of the stories aside it was a safe place to grow up as a kid.

While your talking about Bamboo Lounge fire scene in Goodfellas The fire vehicle pulls up. 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you for Sharing! This was a really fun look at Canarsie. I love this kind of video where you get out and we can see everything up close. Keep it up!

Born in Canarsie in 1961. Moved out in 1986. Miss the old neighborhood & all that went with it ,,

“Hey Spida! Dat bandage on ya foot is bigger than your fawkin’ head!!!”

Another AWESOME video my friend, this is pure gold for us Mob historians and wannabe wiseguys. This is exactly what we needed, especially us who do not live in the United States and we've never been to New York. Not yet anyways. What you doing is absolutely amazing and you have our gratitude. This is truly piece of history what you are bringing to us. Thank you! And keep us posted on Instagram as well, you should post there about the new releases. Thank you my friend, keep up the great work!!! Kindest regards

Brilliant! Watched this twice because it was so good. Excellent attention to detail. Thank you.

Great Job, well worth wait, thanks for all the detail NYC!

Great video as usual, I really enjoyed this historical stroll back in time through Canarsie, thanks for doing this! Tell your friend thanks for accompanying you.

You guys are a good team on the streets. I hope you do more work together. It’s cool to get both of your stories and perspectives. Thank you for these videos.

Canarsie Native here. I've lived through all of your Canarsie videos. I lived right off 57th and Claridon Road @ the time of that bust. Then 84th between Glenwood & Farragut. Varios lived on my block.

The Bamboo Lounge was also a major hangout in the late 80s but it was called Le Parc.

E91st is my block.. whole mother’s side of my family is from Canarsie since the 60’s… a lot of legends came out of Canarsie that I wish people would talk more about..

Thanks for sharing the video and a tour of Canarsie👍🏻

My neighborhood is the only neighborhood that hadn’t changed since the 70’s ( Brighton beach) the Chinese are taking over from ave U all the way to dyker and now coming to bay ridge. They straight up destroying Brooklyn culture

Thank you once again for sharing these quality uploads with us all. 👍

Very Interesting story you posted 8 months ago , A favorite for many of us , cant get enough info from this historic time and from the Movie Classic in the 70's and I guess poss early 80's When The Mob was thriving .. you again do an awesome job showing us these sites where plenty of S--t went down . Gotta Give you a lot of Credit for locating and arriving at these sites to film ... its Cool but I'm sure you need to be motivated to do this ... cant wait for the next post see ya NYC CS ..... Jim :)

Good call you two its always interesting and always a pleasure to watch out for you... Thanks =)

Excellent work, as usual \m/ Thoroughly enjoyed this \m/

Just rewatched this video! Super underrated! Great job 👍🏼

Everything is in the detail. Good work🥂🎯

Great Video. Good commentary, facts, good research and accompanying stills are all superb. Very good.

I think the confusion with the Bamboo lounge being in Sheepshead Bay was because the scene in the movie used a restaurant on Coney Island Avenue in Sheepshead Bay dressed up as the Bamboo Lounge.

Love you’re videos! Always interesting! Love hearing about about the mob especially from someone who knows what they’re talking about.

Just rewatching your catalog on a Sunday!! When you tap in Patty Testa’s garage building & say “RIP ROY” I’m dying!! 😂😂

The Bamboo did burn .I remember that. Try going to the Canarsie .Couriours. Web page.The local news paper.

Great video! Love your work!

I was born and raised in Canarsie Brooklyn on 87th street between Farragut rd and Foster Ave. The Testas lived up the block from me on 87th street. There was Anthony, Joey, Frank, Patty and Dennis Testa. My cousins husband was related to them. Anthony Senter had an apartment on 87th also. I am still friends with Anthony Senters sister Maryjane, Donna Corozzo and some of the Testa family. Patty Testa got killed back in 1992 at his shop on Foster Avenue around the block from me, by Anthony Gaspipes people. Anthony Senters uncle Robert owned the Canarsie recycling company. He had trucks pick up the dumpsters and they ended up at the dump on the Belt Pkwy. There were other guys we knew like the Vario crew, Nicky, Blaise and Jo Jo Corozzo, Vic Amuso, Tommy Red, Mike Yanotti, Vinny Dimino, Vincent Dragonetti among others. The Bamboo lounge was the Regis and then Leparc on Rockaway Pkwy. Miss the good old Canarsie days! When you were on Avenue D near Foster Ave, my house was right around the corner.

I grew up at 2045 Rockaway Parkway I remember one time it did have a fire in the bamboo lounge and was shut down

Outstanding video and presention! Canarsie has always been a good place for me when I lived in Brooklyn. I remember when my dad you to take me there to fish off the piers.

Thanks for sharing video, I really enjoyed it.

Love the channel. . You really know your stuff

GRADUATED FROM SOUTH SHORE H.S.WORKED AT JERSY LYNN FOODS USED TOO SEE WISE GUYS..THOSE MEN DRESS PERFECTLY NO HAIR OUT OF PLACE😎🗽🚬

(aka "Instowham") Great show! I missed you guys! Glad to see you're still out there doing your thing. VIVA ALFRED E. NEWMAN!

Greatest video; flawless attention to detail! I appreciate the fact you ensure the addresses are accurate. Any chance of videos showing the home addresses of Paul Vario and others which I noticed are printed on your shots of the original newspaper articles? Keep up the great work.

Great video of the old neighborhood I grew up down the block from the old Bamboo...after all those guys were gone it was a restaurant called Le Parc much later years..If you ever end up back in Canarsie there are old spots on Ave L you may want to visit...

Dean born and raised in canarsie Brooklyn great place to live in 70's and 80's it was a brutal time of mass murders but the neighborhood was kept safe I was raised on flatlands avenue and East 83rd my bildersee junior high then I moved to Rockaway parkway across from the fire station. New the dimeo crew personally the Gemini twins. Say what you want they were good people and took care of their own. The neighborhood was much safer and you could still leave your doors unlocked and windows open. If you had any streetbeefs these guys you went to. To me they're all legends. I have the utmost respect for them all. Truth be told I didn't care for Chris or borelli I just didn't trust them.

Used to live on L were there’s a bagel store, from 1980-2000, the neighborhood looks very depressing.

Appreciate your research...

I love your stuff 👍 keep up the awesome work 😎

Another eerie synchronicity in one of your videos man. @4:27 you’re discussing whether the Bamboo Lounge was actually set on fire, the city bus pulls up, leaves, and there’s an FDNY pickup sitting right there.

I had to laugh when you said sorry if I'm obsessed. Many of us watching are. I know I am. I'm very nostalgic about things like this and I appreciate the videos Also"If they weren't cops they'd be great criminals". Another good one

Geffkins bar was owned by my family and the photo of Sammy and Vic was taken in front of my grandparents house.

Great video. In the movie, they use Cypress Caterers, in Ridgewood Queens, to flim the Bamboo Lounge scene. I guess the real building wasn't up to Hollywood standards or just wasn't available. I have a feeling you'll one day end up on Knickerbocker Ave or Fresh Pond Rd covering the Galante hit, the Giannini Crew, etc.....

Had my first bar drinks there. But years before I hung out upstairs with Bobby McConnick who was my age. Years later living in California, one day Henry Hill walked by the cafe and I called out his name and he jumped. We talked and we knew a lot of the same people. The Two main bartenders were Shadow and Sam.

Great stuff.. man, that guy Tommy is AWESOME!! 😁

Love your work here ❤️

Great vid bro love your content. I went to HS across from Varios junkyard. I remember walking past there everyday to school. Nazareth HS. Keep it coming I’m hooked 👌✌️

Miss you so much bruno , you are so missed

It was also called the pocket one time and cannot see the Bamboo Lounge turned out to be lepark after what's in the 90s late 90s it was in the park live right across the street from it

The mob still runs the area trust me

This was awesome great job NYC crime spots

The Bamboo Lounge chapter of the movie was created to visualize both the mob's swag business and their business of taking over and busting out joints. It's well known that the Bamboo Lounge dinner scene wasn't scripted. It was a complete freestyle by Pesci while the rest of the cast played off of what he was doing. It's also known that some of the characters and scenes in the movie were composites of their real life persons and events. For example, 'Frankie Carbone' in the movie was a composite character based on the real Angelo Sepe as well as several others. Even Pesci's 'Tommy DeVito' character was a composite character created as a combination of the real Tommy DeSimone and Lenny Vario, Paulie's son who wasn't even referenced in the movie.

Another great video. I love 70s NY.

Excellent video, great research. I used to live in New York City back in the day and worked for a short period in Canarsie. Got some strange looks when locals heard my Irish accent. Your narration is sublime but slight correction on Gaspipe's headquarters. It was the 19th Hole as opposed to the 9th Hole. The name was, as far as I know, influenced by the nearby Dyker Beach golf course in Dyker Heights.

Great stuff!!

DAMN YT!! I wasn't notified about your vid, Goodfellas one the classics for gangster movie junkies such as ourselves. My first car was a '62 Cadillac Coupe Deville black- red interior and i would mimic Sonny from A Bronx Tale felt like a real gangster. Hope you're doing well bro.

It's an interesting video. I lived in the neighborhood as most of that happened, graduating from the school opposite the Vario crew junkyard in 1977. It was a surreal experience made more meaningful with the Bee Gee's music playing "Staying Ali-i--i-v-e" in the background. In about four years I counted more than 22 murders of friends and acquaintances there, and they weren't mobsters. I recall the city in financial crisis and the police force cut by two thirds because it was unaffordable. We were on our own. Remarkably there is no mention of what happened at the school in the video and I can theorize the reason for that but some day, perhaps, the full experience of that place will be known. Put together, it's very tremendous. Meeting Roy, the Dinomes, the twins, the iceman and many others like them on an ordinary day to day basis since I was eleven years old was included. The story as we know it included the fights and near fights and arguments with the killers that sometimes happened. Things happened there that are truly almost unbelievable but they happened a lot. There was very much confusion. People died senselessly. It wasn't easy. It was kinda problematic. We all knew it. It's probably why there is a little buzz about it.

Excellent video. Showing all the backstreets and alleys and all the places of mob history. Not places you would really see when you visit the New York metropolitan area. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to your future videos.

Does anyone remember Collaro’s Restaurant on Coney Island Ave. in Brooklyn? I’m wondering if the exterior wasn’t used in Goodfellas, when Henry and Tommy were sitting in the car talking about their upcoming double date.

I wonder if them vario tapes still exist. That would be a good listen. Props to your mate. He asked about the chandelier. Lol

Good Video bro, i hit the subscribe. After watching this I realized I been living in a mafia controlled area back in the 70's.

Thanks for taking the time and effort to do this video. Goodfellas is one of my favourite films and I've always wondered how the locations may have changed over time. Keep doing what you're doing and I'm sure your channel will grow. Ps I hope you don't get involved in all this 'mobtube' BS. Too much bickering and drama when they should be focusing on content like yourself. Respect from the UK 🇬🇧 👍

can you tell me the name of the book that AL D'Arco was in talking about tommy?

Awesome video

Love this. I was sad to hear the goodfellas restaurant closed.

Thanks buddy

Thank you NYC!!!!

Good job!

Great vid mate the locations were fantastic 👏 I've watched it twice over 👍 good contribution by yer mate Tommy 👍 would be good to know more about the Gemini twins after Roy's death and just before they had been locked up. There's got to be a few good stories there especially them being connected to gas pipe. Keep them coming mate 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

loved this

There was a bamboo lounge at 2676 coney island ave. I passed everyday going to Grady high school it had bamboo on the front of the bar. This is what they used in the movie

Great video 👍

A great stroll down Goodfellas memory lane. You even had your Tommy DeSimone stand-in. Do you ever video on sunny days🤔 -You should do a comparison between Joe Pesci and the real Tommy DeSimone, age, physique, etc. They were sooo different. I love delivery style, some may say it's wordy but it really works.👍👍👍

Still chop shops till this day 😅

I had a matchbook from the 1962 era BAMBOO LOUNGE. I remember that it was a fancy matchbook. My sister went there with her fiance on occasion. He was a union steamfitter and earned a good paycheck. I imagine that the prices at the Bamboo Lounge may have been kind of trendy for an old neighborhood Irish tavern in the past.

GREAT VID LOVED IT............................

Damn. I once wrote graffiti on the front door on Geffens bar. Thank good ness nobody saw me

I worked for a company called Atlas Gas. In the 1980s I delivered oxygen & acetylene and cutting & welding supplies to every junkyard and body shop in Canarsie.

Great job

Amazing work, my mother owns lopez. Ive heard stories. I remember a gentlemen came in once and told me stories of what went down at the bamboo lounge, i let him give me a tour, he pointed some thing out i didnt realize. Alot of history in canarsie.

I grew up in Bayview, and my best friend in high school was Peter Chiodo who later went on to a life of crime as a capo in the Luchese crime family.

That property jr vario rest his great soul years later sold it to Betty an investor,,the cevarizos another great family long time canarsians were next door,, behind gefkins were another great family the savianos, great block lots of great childhood memories

Good video!

I love classic shit like this bro I’ve always wondered what it was like back then

I was born and raised in Carnasie from 1969 to 40 years later I was working across the street from where Patti Testa was killed I was in key food printing R.I.P. Patti

5:07 Funny how a FDNY truck pulls up when you start describing them torching the place. 😅

Great show, gentlemen. So, it is said that Willie Johnson (Gotti Sr’s pal) and confidential informant.. had passed on the info about the whereabouts of Vario’s headquarters - but I remember reading this happened in 1978. Clyde Brooks a Luccesse associate owned the much involved in the Jimmy Burke crew is someone you have to research to square this. I’ll copy/paste a clip: “Biography Clyde E. Brooks was an Italian-American mob associate and front man for the Lucchese crime family. He was a veteran Paul Vario loyalist in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 813 and waste disposal business who was the "front man" for Paul Vario's waste management empire as the general supervisor for the Brooklyn district of the New York City Department of Sanitation. Clyde was involved in grand theft auto and was a close friend of Paul Vario. Clyde was the manager and front man of Paul Vario's Bargain Auto Junkyard (now "The Spring Creek Towers Composting Facility") located at 12720-B FLATLANDS AVENUE in Starrett City, Brooklyn where he worked as a waste management supervisor responsible for the entire area of Spring Creek. The "Bargain Auto Junkyard" became Paul Vario's criminal headquarters from 1965 to 1972.” H Vario had a trailer toward the back of the junkyard that was tapped. John Law always wants to take credit for being a brilliant investigator - when most of his success has to do with informants, ergo, detectives seeing guys from the bar. I’m thinking it was a misprint and that Willie Boy had given up Paul’s headquarters in 1972. Willie had started informing around 1966. Also, as much trouble that it seemed Paul was in, after indictments… he couldn’t have don’t that much time - because he had to have been home prior to December 1978 when Lufthansa occurred. Great platform guys. I’ve just subscribed.

Shout out to Robby the knish man who lives on a real Canarsie legend also knew him love him