January 1, 1934 - Edward Cummiskey
His significance lies less in his own crimes than in what he passed on — Cummiskey's mentorship of Jimmy Coonan helped shape the Westies into one of New York's most feared Irish-American criminal organizations of the 1970s and 1980s. The Hell's Kitchen underworld he inhabited was defined by extreme violence, and his influence on Coonan's methods left a lasting mark on the gang's reputation long after his own death in 1976.
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Edward "Eddie the Butcher" Cummiskey Jr. (1934, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan – August 20, 1976, Chelsea, Manhattan) was a New York mobster who served as a mentor to Jimmy Coonan, leader of the Westies. Cummiskey is reputed to have shown Coonan how to dismember and dispose of murder victims by scattering their remains into the waters around the sewage treatment plant, which was operated by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection at Randalls and Wards Islands, notably in the Hudson River. Cummiskey was murdered by hitman Joseph Sullivan on August 20, 1976, in a bar.
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