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By Max Jaeger<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Daily<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Green-Wood Cemetery doesn’t need any more shooting victims.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn’s biggest burial ground put out a public service announcement on June 22, allying itself with Mayor DeBlasio’s call for stronger gun-control regulations and cheekily mentioning it doesn’t need more bullet-riddled bodies in its rolling hills.<\/p>\n
“Green-Wood is proud to join with Mayor DeBlasio in his call for every New Yorker and American to be able to live in a nation free from gun violence. As the PSA says, less business is fine with us,” Green-Wood president Richard Moylan said.<\/p>\n
Indeed, it has its share of gun-violence victims — here are a few famous ones we dug up:<\/p>\n
No. 1 with a bullet <\/p>\n
Notorious mobster and Gambino crime family leader Alberto Anastasia — founder of Murder Inc. known as “The Lord High Executioner” — was gunned down in a Manhattan barbershop in 1957.<\/p>\n
Beer and a shot <\/p>\n
William “Bill the Butcher” Poole — leader of the infamous Bowery Boys and a nativist political enforcer that inspired Bill Cuttings in Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York” — was shot in the chest by a rival in a Manhattan bar in 1855. His funeral procession to Green-Wood drew a record crowd. His grave was not marked until 2003, when the cemetery put in a head stone and even had a bugler play “Taps”.<\/p>\n
Baptism by gunfire <\/p>\n
The adulterous Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall was found shot in the head alongside his choir-girl lover in New Jersey in 1922. Hall, a Brooklyn native, is buried in a family vault alongside his wife and brother-in-law, who went to trial for the unsolved murders.<\/p>\n
Turkey shoot <\/p>\n
Red Hook gangster Joe “Crazy Joe” Gallo was gunned down in a Manhattan restaurant in 1972. Gallo is known locally for ordering his ramshackle gang to hole up in a Columbia Waterfront District home for protection in his underdog fight against the Profaci crime family between 1961 and 1963.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn’s JFK <\/p>\n
Ascendant councilman James E. Davis was shot dead on the floor of City Hall by political rival Othniel Askew in 2003 — a slaying the media compared to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Askew did not have to pass through metal detectors, because he entered as a guest of the councilman. The Fort Greene legislator’s family laid him to rest at Green-Wood, but later moved him upon finding out that Askew had been buried there as well. <\/p>\n
Reach deputy editor Max Jaeger at mjaeger@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260–8303. Follow him on Twitter @JustTheMax.<\/p>\n
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