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...often shuffles along the sidewalks of his Greenwich Village neighborhood dressed in a bathrobe and slippers and babbling to himself. Vincent (Chin) Gigante, 62, looks as if he can barely attend to his own affairs, much less oversee the country's most powerful Mob family. His lawyers contend that Chin, a former glass-jawed prizefighter (hence the nickname), is mentally ill. But federal agents believe his behavior is an act designed to avoid prosecution. Recalls John Pritchard, a former FBI supervisor: "Once in 1985 I saw Gigante walk outdoors in a bathrobe. He climbed into a car, and several blocks...
Since 1981 the family has reputedly been run by Gigante, 62, who operates out of a seedy social club in Greenwich Village. Gigante is rarely seen in public without his trademark bathrobe and slippers, which he allegedly wears to feign mental illness and avoid prosecution. Despite such behavior, federal agents portray Gigante as the CEO of a conglomerate-like enterprise. He has been linked to activities as diverse as record-industry extortion, the improper sale of taxicab meters and the defrauding of a credit union...
...case against three of the alleged participants in the brutal rape and assault of a young female jogger in Central Park last year drew to a close, a 33-year-old advertising executive was shot to death while returning a phone call on a quiet Greenwich Village street...
...finally come to some sort of terms with my homosexuality," White writes in States of Desire. By the time he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1962, he had accepted -- indeed become fully committed to -- a homosexual life and life-style. He moved to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, working by day, writing by night, and coming to the realization that his art would suffer unless his culture were reflected in his writing: "You see, many of us began by thinking that we were basically heterosexual except for this funny little thing, this sexual habit we had somehow picked...
United Parcel, with headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., has spent a year testing 10 natural gas-fuel trucks in Brooklyn, N.Y. Reduction of smog-causing gases has been so effective in those vehicles that the company is preparing to make sample conversions by early 1991 in its 600-vehicle fleet in Manhattan. They will come none too soon; New York City has the second worst air in the U.S., after Los Angeles...