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People say that nobody in the mafia goes on a “ride” and lives to tell the tale. Lucky Luciano earned his place in gangster lore after being kidnapped from the Barbizon, beaten, and left for dead on a beach.

Mad Dog was one of the most cold-blooded killers in New York. Unfortunately, he crossed too many people and was whacked inside a drug store phone booth.

Before it was closed and the building was torn down, McGurk’s used to be the roughest and toughest bar in New York. A favorite watering hole among prostitutes and criminals, it earned the nickname “McGurk’s Suicide Hall” because many of the patrons went there to commit suicide.

The infamous villain in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial was once a carpenter who worked on the building. Allegedly, he stashed some of the ransom money in the walls of the building.

Didn't your parents tell you not to follow the stranger with candy into his van?

Polly Adler typified much of what the roaring twenties were all about: money and sex. She ran a string of brothels out of various locations throughout the city. This building was her most famous and impressive establishment.