| Chapter 5: | The Racketeers |
Some of my friends could have bought them on other streets in East Harlem.
So, in the 1930’s and 1940’s the racketeers were our neighbors on One Hundred and Seventh Street. Most of the people on my street were not racketeers. When they could afford to leave the neighborhood, they did. The racketeers were the wealthiest men on my street and they left first for better neighborhoods and newer horizons.