Philadelphia Greek Mob Puns

They're not brought up in MSoN or the show. Atlantic City/South Jersey i.e. the Pinelands was mentioned many times during in the series, and this was Philly's territory.

As a side note: Pesci in his heyday would have made an excellent Philly Mob Boss Little Nicky Scarfo who killed off many of his own guys as he was paranoid they were out to get him.

I watched the Netflix movie “True Story” that has the Greek mob as the secondary antagonists. It shows them doing loan sharking and blackmail.

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When Skip Lapari goes to Pussy’s house and talks about the “merger”, aka Philadelphia putting pressure on the shy business (“Thatsh been going on shince Motheth wore thort panths”). Could’ve seen some Philly monsters, maybe Tony uses them as an ally against NY, idk. Missed opportunity imo

My grandma was telling me about when she first dated my grandfather. This would have been the mid 60s. She lived in an apartment on Chestnut St. in center city Philadelphia. At the time, a mobster lived above her. There’s more to the story than that and it got me really curious to learn more, basically I’m trying to figure out more about that mobster! She thinks he was called “Black Pat” or something like that. She thinks he operated in south jersey and/or Philadelphia. Don’t have much more info than that. She thinks it would have been 1964 but could’ve been anytime in the 60s after 1963 (when she graduated college). I’ve googled and googled and can’t find anything on this guy. Anyone want to help me find out about this guy? Or possibly know who she’s talking about?

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I have been very interested in the latter part of Byzantine history and was intrigued by this city. While most of Asia Minor fell to the Turkic invaders Philadelphia still stood. What was life like in a cut of Roman City? How did they maintain their independence surrounded by a Sea of Turkic Emirs? I am also incredibly confused on why the Roman Emperor Aided the Ottomans in sieging and eventually capturing the City in 1390.