Bamonte’s is a family owned Italian restaurant at 32 Withers Street in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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, New York.
Anthony Bamonte began running it in the 1960s, eventually bringing in daughter Nicole.
It is said to have been a
Mob
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Behavioral phenomena
* Crowd
* Smart mob, a temporary self-structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication
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hangout. In 2009, after he was released from a federal penitentiary,
Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito of the
Bonanno crime family
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, was forbidden by his probation officer from returning to several Italian restaurants in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, including Bamonte's.
After
Carmine Galante was murdered, they “closed down for a night and the heads of the five crime families held a celebratory dinner.”
History
When Anthony’s grandfather, Pasquale Bamonte, and his wife settled in Williamsburg after immigrating from
Salerno, Italy
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they opened Liberty Hall in 1900, which became Bamonte’s. It originally served as a banquet hall and meeting place.
Honors and awards
In 2021, Bamonte’s was named on of NYC’s 21 best Italian restaurants by
Condé Nast Traveler.
In popular culture
*Bamonte's was featured in Season 5 of Starz T.V. show Power as a mob hangout. It's where Vincent Ragni held his meetings.
*It was a setting for several episodes of ''
The Sopranos
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''.
Character
Gerry Torciano
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was murdered there.
*Episodes of
Person of Interest and
Kojak
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also filmed here
*An episode in Season 6 of
Homeland
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was filmed here
* 1989 mobster film ''
Cookie''
*
Blue Bloods Season 11, Episode 14 The New You
References
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Italian restaurants in New York City
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Italian-American organized crime