At the height of her fame, Gloria Swanson wore a hat and made 10,000 women copy it the following season. Her handprints were set in cement in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Her fan mail ran to 10,000 letters a week. She was earning $20,000 a week and she spent it on French perfume,…
On the evening of March 21st, 1964, the new museum at the south side of Columbus Circle in Manhattan opened to invited guests with the kind of confidence that only inherited wealth makes possible. The building had cost approximately $7.5 million to construct. Edward Jerel Stone, the architect who had designed the…
In January of 2021, Christie’s offered more than 665 lots from a 20-room duplex at 834 5th Avenue. The building the New York Observer had once called the most pedigreed building on the snobbiest street in the country’s most real estate-obsessed city. The lots included artworks, furniture, and jewelry that had once…
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008. Just after 7 in the morning, Castro Valley, California, a residential street 15 miles southeast of Oakland. The kind of culde-sac where the lawns get watered on a timer and the neighbors wave at the mailman by name. A man named Mark Anthony Candler is asleep inside one…
Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village is a quiet block. And Snyder Avenue in South Philadelphia is the same kind of street, the kind that in any other city would be entirely unremarkable, a row of modest houses where a neighborhood looked in 1980, much as it had looked 30 years before. And…
December 1st, 2009. Federal courthouse, Lower Manhattan. A jury files back into the room for the fourth time in 5 years. Four sets of charges, four separate trials. And for the fourth time, the forewoman looks up and says the same two words, “No verdict.” The judge declares a mistrial. John Angelo…
You know the craze. You know the Richardsons. You probably know Kenneth Noi, the Brinks Matt Fence, who put a knife into a stranger at a road rage stop on the M25. Here’s a name you almost certainly don’t know. Terrence George Adams, born October 18th, 1954 in Barnesbury, Islington. The eldest…
He ran the most powerful criminal organization in America from a pay phone on Sullivan Street wearing a bathrobe. Not because he was crazy, because he was the smartest man in the room in every room he ever entered. And he understood something that every other mob boss in New York failed…
What’s up everybody? Welcome to Hood Archives. Now, before we get into today’s story, I need you to clear your head for a second. Put everything else down cuz this one, this one’s different. This ain’t a story about a kingpin building an empire. This ain’t about somebody beating the streets and…
September 9th, 1935. A Midtown Manhattan nightclub, New York City. Late evening, Abraham Bo Weinberg walked out of the club and into the night. He was 35 years old. He had been married for 5 months to a woman named Anime Turner. The wedding had been on April 23rd, a spring ceremony,…
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