[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Cloaked in green, perched high above the city and offering the kind of privacy that would appeal to mob bosses, Todt Hill on Staten Island would in many ways be a fitting location for an old-fashioned Mafia hit. Paul Castellano, who led the Gambino crime family until he was murdered in Manhattan in 1985, conducted business from his Benedict Road mansion. It has also been the home of many other reputed mobsters, including Salvatore Gravano, known as Sammy the Bull, a onetime hit man who informed on his boss, John Gotti. Mr. Cali was shot six times and pronounced dead at Staten Island University Hospital.

Source: New York Times March 14, 2019 09:45 UTC