Years apart, a mobster and an insurance executive walked out onto a dark New York street. Both were killed. People felt some affection for the old-style hoodlum. For the insurance guy, not so much.
In December 1985, I covered the flamboyant murder of mob boss Pauly “Big Paul” Castellano, cut down in a fusillade of bullets fired at close range as he exited Sparks Steak House on East 46th Street at about 5 p.m.
