Mafia museum in New York

From “The Godfather” to “The Sopranos,” the Mafia has been a big part of the culture of this city and nation, and now organized crime is getting a museum of its own in Manhattan. NY1’s Roger Clark filed the following report, informs mafiatoday.com.
The building at 80 St. Mark’s Place, in the heart of the East Village, held an old speakeasy during Prohibition, owned by a gangster named Walter Scheib.
Now, the building’s illicit past is coming to the foreground, as it will house the new Museum of the American Gangster.
Otway’s family bought the building from Scheib 46 years ago and opened a theater there, but recently Otway was inspired to create the museum.
Among the items visitors will see are a replica of a Thompson machine gun, the so-called “Tommy gun” seen in all the old gangster films, as well as old newspaper articles about gangsters like Al Capone and Jack “Legs” Diamond.

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