Jimmy Coonan Leader Of The Westies Dismembers Loan Shark To Wipe Out Debt

[@Kee2Oz]

I've been fascinated by Coonan for awhile. Its so strange how he seemed like a normal kid until his dad got bullied, and then he turned into a gangster over night and went balls to the wall. And he never looked back. If there were one gangster/mobster who I'd ask a question to, it'd be him. I'd ask him what his ambitions were as a kid before that situation in his life changed everything. Another great piece of work, Mooney! Appreciate your time.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

He was a very interesting character you can’t deny that

[@johnwalsh3658]

Great site moonie dashcam !watching from Essex England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@brianmccarthy5557]

It's his story that he became a gangster because he had to. I doubt it. It's the same origin story every thug likes to have. It was old when Jesse James and his model William Clarke Quantrill used it, and as much of a lie then as now. Coonan was a thug because, like his buddy Roy DeMeo, he liked it. He wasn't even a very smart thug, which is why he and his crew of losers didn't last very long and left no successors, except for the white collar criminals who came to inhabit Clinton aka Hell's Kitchen.

[@legscoll3296]

He was a gangster in the making even as a boy

[@Kee2Oz]

@@brianmccarthy5557 Could be true. I've read only the one side of the story about his early life. Although, nearly all of his contemporaries were involved in street gang activity when they were kids,there isn't anything that I've found to suggest that he was a young hoodlum. I don't think he started out like DeMeo at all, but he turned into him. I mean he went after an adult criminal organization by specifically going after Spillanes and his guys, he wasn't extorting, thieving, or loan sharking. I sure don't admire Jimmy Coonan, but for a criminal, he was a unique case I think.

[@blairmarshall544]

Love these videos. I’m from Scotland and America particularly New York has always fascinated me. The sheer madness of New York in the 60’s/70’s mad 80’s was beyond belief. You going around these places and showing people like me where the events took place really makes it seem more real

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Still wild to me that people watch my videos let alone someone from as far away as Scotland! Thank you!

[@RedQNZ]

Did you ever see that movie State of Grace? With Sean Penn and Garry Oldman? That was based off the book The Westies - well I you haven't seen it (maybe you have) I think you would really like it - The book The Westies was a good read

[@blairmarshall544]

@@RedQNZ yeah I have seen it. Great movie thanks for the good shout. 👍🏼

[@signoguns8501]

Glasgow in the 80s was pretty wild, too lol

[@zzirSnipzz1]

If you think stuff doesn't happen in Scotland you would be surprised

[@genebigs1749]

"What a fun group of guys." You kill me, Mooney. Great story, absolutely chilling.

[@pamelafayebradshaw]

🤣

[@RazPerignon]

This video is long overdue, I once randomly went to mr.biggs with an ex girlfriend a couple years back, the bar had an aura to it, I remember looking the bar up when I got home and finding out it was the old 596 club.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Very weird that you knew something was off before really knowing

[@RazPerignon]

@@MOONEYDashCam yea it bugged me out, I’ve read all about the Westies before then but didn’t know the exact location of the bar. You should have went inside, maybe they would even show you the room where the Westies did their butcher business.

[@crazy4277]

I was thinking of Roy DeMeo, no body, no crime... Great job!

[@jimmyburkeirishgoodfella5720]

Love your channel Mooney . I’m from Belfast Ireland but I lived in Woodside queens for near 15years . I love seeing the sights in your car trips . Takes me back to when I was young running around NYC working construction and drinking like so many more of my fellow Irishmen back then. The late 80s early 90s the Irish took over that whole city it was a great time to be alive lol bar brawls and banging broads 🤣🤣🤣 cheers kid keep up the amazing work 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Sounds like you got your moneys worth out of the New York experience

[@jimmyburkeirishgoodfella5720]

@@MOONEYDashCam damn right I did my G . I was working not to far from the first world trade centre attack in 93 I can remember saying to my work buddies that we moved to the states to escape the bombs and bullets of Belfast . Crazy to thing a few years later the towers are gone 🙏🏼

[@jamiewilliams685]

@@jimmyburkeirishgoodfella5720 What visa did you come over on ?

[@jimmyburkeirishgoodfella5720]

@@jamiewilliams685 why ?? We didn’t give a crap about visas my G lol . Back then you could buy a social security number in a bar for 100bucks. Not like nowadays after 9/11 they cracked down on being illegal

[@Bertha-pm4xt]

"You know the kind of thing you do to a guy you really respect" you got me rolling on that comment! Is there a Mooney podcast in the future. Could certainly see you driving with a guest in the truck with mob stories from people who lived it.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I’d love to get a guy in the truck to tell first had stories

[@brianmccarthy5557]

@@MOONEYDashCam Don't let him sit behind you and frisk him first.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

@@brianmccarthy5557 lol

[@weeknders]

Jimmy Callandra? He has a podcast.

[@AO-tf7cr]

I was just thinking of watching “State of Grace “ tonight. One of my favorite movies. Been “ on the shelf “ for many years tho. Guess that settles it.

[@oscarmadison8530]

The westies are a prime example of why I keep to myself. Great upload, MDC.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Smart move

[@paulsmith708]

Love this channel as I’ll probably never get to visit New York.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I’ll keep making these so you don’t have to worry

[@paulsmith708]

@@MOONEYDashCam top man

[@alandarcy102]

I grew up in the kitchen the nickname for the bar was Heads and Hands

[@MOONEYDashCam]

🤣🤣

[@Cabmaker]

Man I just can’t wrap my head around how evil these people are. What kind of a sick pos do you have to be to dismember people. SICK

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Different kind of human… if you can even call him human

[@DaveSCameron]

Me too and thank god that these extremely violent folks are in a small minority. ❤️🙏

[@TheIcpfan23]

@@DaveSCameron what's that suppose to mean bruh. What im trying to say it can happen to anybody in the world not just minoritys

[@tonymurray814]

@@TheIcpfan23 I hope ur being sarcastic. The alternative is too ridiculous to contemplate!!!

[@brianmccarthy5557]

@@TheIcpfan23 If you haven't grasped it yet, Cooney and his Westies were Irish Anericans like Mooney and me.

[@paulboyle5659]

That Billy is interviewed in the mob video here on KZbin he actually explains the murder and how Coonan put his head in a carrier bag and soon aftet he was calmly playing with his children, chilling stuff man. Nice video again bro well done and thanks for sharing your videos with us.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I’ll have to check that video out

[@lonaldmcdonald8907]

@@MOONEYDashCam KZbin Loyalty and betrayal story of the American mob. Includes philly, Gambinos and the Westies mob. Greatest doc ever 👍👍👍👍

[@canadaeast8358]

It makes you wonder how much stuff went down in other buildings your passing on your drives that probably was never found out. Interested video as always bro keep em coming

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Exactly so much has went on you’re almost always in a crime scene

[@DaveSCameron]

Your uploads are fantastic and your mix of introducing us to the city of NYC 🗽 and its hot spots along with the information your offer is a magic mix, don't go anywhere soon and best wishes 🙏

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you David

[@robfairclough]

The Westies seem a great bunch of business savvy guys. Great to share a beer, torso or just kick a head about with, probably best to pick up the bar tab yourself though. Great attention to detail as always, great to see you, love the jacket and hi to the truck that rocks those H.I.D's. Stay safe Mooney.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

As we know they were generous with a cigarette too lol

[@robfairclough]

Well they do say smoking is bad for your health. Presumably more so if your head is actually attached to your neck. Keep doing good Mooney! 😁

[@Custardpie174]

Don't forget the movie "State of Grace" with Sean Penn...loosely based on the Westies....

[@antoniobranch]

"How am I so funny...I amuse you."....Mooney you sure do. Good work.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Hahaha

[@magamaga1827]

Great job as usual Mooney.. As a 50 yr old Irish American born/raised in Queens, NY, and kinda witnessed the very tail end of the crazy that was the Irish in Hells Kitchen up thru the mid 90's, they were scary, scary people. They even scared us Irish from other parts of NYC. Maybe not as slick or as polished as the Italian mafia, but equally if not more ruthless in their ways. The area was also a great hiding spot for IRA snipers on the run from the Brits back in the 70s/80s. I had a few cousins housed there. But, sadly, like the rest of old school NYC...Hells Kitchen is no more. It's literally a huge, transient gay community there now.

[@ninajefferson4018]

Lolol. Ironic. I think

[@johndebolt5853]

Hi Mooney, thanks for the great video as always. Jimmy, Mickey and crew were crazy, especially Mickey, crazy as a fox. Be well.

[@joedellamura9015]

Great interesting and eye opening video Mooney thanks for sharing,best wishes from London England

[@radkingston666]

Lungs !? Mooney stop giving these folks ideas 💡😆 👍

[@anthonyferrante7119]

Mooney that was fascinating, you have the best material, anything about the Westies is extremely interesting, Jimmy Coogan i think almost Topps Roy Demeo as far as ruthlessness, what a demented individual

[@MOONEYDashCam]

👍👍

[@jameschanin876]

I remember reading a book about the Westies back in the late 1980s.

[@ultimatesoccershow]

PURE MAGIC MOONEY!!!!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you!

[@scottdowns2934]

What a great video ! Coonan snd featherstone. Thanks . Okay excellent job !

[@samanthab1923]

Sounds like Mickey wasn’t around for this hit.

[@kevinconnolly1263]

Awesome as always Mooney!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

👍

[@Reconquista2000]

I have read the book The Westies by T.J. English and they took not only a head and fingers to the bar but on one occasion also a severed penis. Mickey Featherstone sent a wannabee from the pub to his house to get a milk carton from the refrigerator and bring it back to him. There was something in there that he wanted to show his friends. The Wannebee looked into the milk carton on his way back and saw that it contained a severed penis. They were really crazy characters. (greetings from the Netherlands Mooney, amazing channel)

[@MOONEYDashCam]

That’s a crazy story I’ll look into it to see if I can make something from it

[@legscoll3296]

That's story has changed a thousand x they say it was a finger they would use for prints on gun mickey Featherstone was absolutely nuts he was a tunnel rat in war they decastreted him also then he was feared even by the mafia he terrozied hells kitchen

[@brianmccarthy5557]

Probably a lot of your viewers know this but I'm sure some don't. Hell's Kitchen was traditionally a mostly Irish neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. It was famous for its vicious gangsters. Jimmy Cagney movies were set there. If parts of New York were Hell then this area was even hotter than the normal parts of Hell; hence Hell's Kitchen. The term has crept into the vernacular. By the 1960's and 1970's, the era of the last New York Irish Mob usually known as the Westies, the area was being gentrified. The real estate developers, not wanting to scare away customers, spread their bucks among corrupt New York Democrats and voila - Hell's Kitchen was replaced by the current name Clinton. Many people don't even know where Hell's Kitchen was or think it's a myth. The maps of New York show only Clinton. Much the same thing happened on the North Side of Chicago, where the University is now and rich people dwell, that used to be the awful slum of Kilgallen. My grandparents lived there with their siblings and my father was there as a baby. It its day it was normally regarded as the worst and most violent slum in America. It made today's "slums" look like kindergartens in a well behaved suburb. Much of the most notorious violence of the Roaring 20's and Prohibition occurred there, including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and many more. Now the name is changed, the Irish are forgotten, and nobody knows of it. The same is almost true of Hell's Kitchen and soon will be. Very convenient for those who accuse us Irish Americans of White Privilege. I believe the fingers and body parts preserved in the bar, along with at least one head. I've been told that the same occurred in Chicago and in the old violent Irish areas of Boston and New York. Apparently it's one of our endearing customs. Roy DeMeo partnered with the Westies. It was how they came to an arrangement with the Gambinos. He might have known how to butcher bodies before the partnership but the Westies loaned him experts to train his crew on the finer points. The Irish were so scary that they frightened the Jamaicans and the Russians, both very tough boys. DeMeo brought them in when he had to do really heavy work. As Jimmy Burke and the Boston Mob proved, even in their last criminal stages the Irish gangs were fearsome groups. Thank God it seems those days are mostly past us, but that's why Irish cops had to be so tough.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I love a good informative comment like this

[@antonyrafter99]

Huge thank you for going to the Kitchen. Thanks you are the best.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

👍👍

[@antonyrafter99]

@@MOONEYDashCam Where did you get that photo of Richie Ryan?

[@mr.zesozadfrack7790]

No telling how many people got chopped up in there? If those walls could talk... Wish I could go back in time and have some drinks there when it was the spot!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

That would be a trip you’d just have to be careful of getting killed

[@mariawelsh3190]

Absolutely. I find all the best videos involve the monstrous macabre of sick demented mob guys. Good stuff Mooney as always! Keep it up dude!😊💜💖💜💖💜💖💜💖💜💖💜💖🤗

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thanks Maria!

[@peteschiavoni]

That’s crazy. Those guys made a name for themselves.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

They couldn’t be ignored

[@raygreen5926]

Congratulations from Ireland. You are very respectful to people ☘🎃🎃🎃☘☘

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I try my best thank you

[@Vince_uk]

You're really nailing these stories Mooney, better each and every time.💎 Say Hi to the truck, it needs a name and a shower😁 I like it when Truck does its Porsche impression. Roy Demeo MO.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Yes it needs a good wash but we’re getting another snow storm here so it’s no use

[@weilandiv8310]

"These are New York cigarettes... you want Jersey cigarettes".

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

Mooney look 4ward to the next one with the blue van clean and shiny 👌 thanks Mooney as always a great video

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Appreciate it!

[@JR-it2yc]

“I don’t know exactly where the body floated up, but if I find it I’ll definitely show you where it is.” Damn Mooney you’re really taking your investigative journalism to the next level. 😂 Much love bro really enjoy your channel. From one New Yorker to another. 🤛

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I’ll always promise to give you all the information I feel like looking up 😂😂

[@pamelafayebradshaw]

@@MOONEYDashCam 🤣

[@jamesbrown3965]

BACK IN THE DAY I LIVED AROUND THERE AND THE WIORD WAS THE BODY GOT STUCK UNDER A BOAT AND WAS FOUND BY THE OLD LENNYS PIZZA AND CLAM BAR WHERE I ATE WITH MY FRIENDS EVERYDAY FOR LUNCH GOING TO E.N.Y. HIGH SCOOL WAS THE BEST VEAL CUTLET PARM I EVER ATE AND THE SIZE OF THE PLATE, THAT WOULD LEAD RITE INTO JAMICIA BAY WHICH IS THE FIRST BRIDGE ON CROSS BAY BLVD NOT REALLY ROCKAWAYS.

[@leemontoya8028]

They put a cigarette in his mouth? Smoking is bad for you! Another good video! keep them coming.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Can cause decapitation

[@irons1141]

Hey Mooney 🤟✊😃 have a good day , and thanks for another great story 👍

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thanks dude👍

[@BW1875]

I just got done reading about this in murder machine.

[@sydneysheppard6686]

Heah mooney..awesome story..like your jacket bro..im ready for this✊🇺🇸🛠😎

[@MOONEYDashCam]

🤘👊

[@browncountycrimereporter3817]

These are the kinda videos I like too, Mooney. 👍🏻Side note: you drove past Mickey Spillane’s at West 49th and 9th Ave.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I’ll write that down and remember to make a stop there soon

[@acerkrt]

Forget Spillane's. He drove passes Rudy's with the pig still outside. That bar is the Real westies bar and the inside looks the same as it did for 100 years .

[@susanroberts7907]

Another interesting video. The story is sick & twisted what they did to this man, I feel for the families of their victims. On the other hand that’s why I watch your videos they are always interesting & factual but get to see your smiling face😊

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you Susan :)

[@brianmccarthy5557]

Ruby Stein was one of the major league bookies of New York of his day. You didn't get there by being a nice guy. I'm sure he had bodies trailing in his wake. He got what he had coming. Not that it makes the Westies any less violent scumbag murderers.

[@jamesd6390]

On you tube it’s called best mob documentary and billy beatie and some detective talked about Charles ruby stein and erasing the debt by erasing Charles ruby stein, and how stupidly ruby stein walked around 11th and 53rd st on his own and didn’t have any young tough Italian guys with him

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Those guys probably felt invincible with all the connections they had

[@V.T.1989]

Thanks Mooney waitin on this one. Loved your tour around Hells Kitchen.

[@georgeedward1226]

The bar was very exclusive back then: dismembers only.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I didn’t think there could be a perfect comment

[@BigPete44]

What up Mooney!!! You’re the GOAT!! 🐐🐐😂💪

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Big Pete 💪 you’re the best

[@simpsonchris144]

Another Great Video Mooney ❤️ Thank you for all your time and efforts that you put into the makings of your videos. Signed A Fan for Life!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Wow Chris thanks

[@simpsonchris144]

@@MOONEYDashCam No Sir Thank you I probably will never visit New York City so your videos give me a virtual tour of New York that I could only dream of. Keep doing what you're doing Bro. All the best to you in 2022 💕

[@errorsofmodernism9715]

Another heartwarming tale

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Always heartwarming from me

[@kirkf4crewdawg604]

Great video, Moony! Love that jacket!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you 🤘

[@johnwalsh3658]

Moonie dash cam brilliant watching from Essex England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Shout out Essex, you guys love this mob stuff out there

[@johnwalsh3658]

@@MOONEYDashCam thanks Mooney kool 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸

[@aaronpierce145]

@Mooney these are only getting better and the funny little comments you make, break the story up a little bit and make it more enjoyable.. “you know things you would do to someone you really respect”

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you I’d get bored if I just told the stories dry so I’m happy you enjoy

[@aaronpierce145]

Well also the fact you reach back out to a lot of your comments is remarkable. It’s only going to get tougher because you are going to be growing faster with each video you improve and evolve with! Stay true! Enjoy your ride ahead man!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

@@aaronpierce145 I enjoy the interaction and I’ll try and keep up as best as I can

[@aaronpierce145]

@@MOONEYDashCam more than applicable my guy! Keep this stuff up!

[@petermladinic8249]

Good video on the Westies! Grim stuff, with all the dismembering they did. I read, a while back that Featherstone lived for a time in my hometown, New Milford, NJ.

[@nikkinicole3968]

Hi mooney, you definitely looking good my friend 😍 its great to see you 😊 an of course great video as always 👌

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you Nikki 👍

[@nikkinicole3968]

@@MOONEYDashCam welcome 👍💙💙

[@oswaldC2243]

Thanks for the story Mooney, take care and please be safe out there..

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Always thank you

[@joshfoster6189]

'they even put his favorite cigarettes into his lips and lit it - you know, the kinda stuff you do to someone you really respect' lol that had me rolling. great video

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I couldn’t help myself 😂

[@trojan1977]

love your vids man,im a true crime fan esspecially about the mob,very informative and always glad that you do the reasurch and the actual places that these things took place,love going on these rides with you on my sofa..A fan from down under,melbourne Australia.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Ahhh all the way from Australia thanks for watching

[@williamsmith6398]

That fantastic,action packed with information!!👍👍

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thanks William👍

[@happyme3376]

I love coming home after work and seeing a new video is up! Thanks, Mooney! You are always informative and entertaining!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you happy

[@mr.nibbles2369]

After he says I'll kill anyone but I won't cut into them, then a lunch break is called off time for lunch after that

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Hopefully they weren’t having spaghetti and meatballs for lunch

[@mr.nibbles2369]

@@MOONEYDashCam 😂😂 right

[@janetrasmussen2583]

There is just something intriguing about mob stuff. I'm so glad that I subscribed to you channel back in the day. Love watching your stuff. Cool to catch up on the details. Keep up the great work. Love it!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I appreciate that Janet!

[@stefbyers1855]

Absolutely love watching you soo interesting

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you

[@sanjoaquinvalleytransparency1]

Just subbed your channel man. I’ve pretty much read every mafia book written. I always wanted to do what you do but went a different route. Keep up the great work

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I appreciate the sub. Welcome!!!

[@danfreisting2874]

Great story and seeing the locations!

[@markbrady334]

Brilliant video I asked you a week or 2 ago to cover a story on these boys thank you for doin so I watch them all very enjoyable channel

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I’ll be doing more on them for sure

[@markdezii]

Excellent entertaining video, Mooney. You're the best! Your videos help me relax before bed. :) I'm from Philadelphia.

[@PonyTailGirl100]

My old man was from Hells Kitchen and knew Coonan and Featherstone...

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I’m sure he has stories for days

[@PonyTailGirl100]

@@MOONEYDashCam He pretty much always said if you were walking down the street and either one of them were coming down to go to the other side of street. They were very feared!!!! Old man lived on west 49th st between 10th and 11th.

[@jtdavis62]

I've been binge watching That Chapter on KZbin, so I'm kinda numb lately! In comparison, mob killings are usually simple and straight-forward.

[@vettejunkiez06bb]

Great vid as usual. Fancy jacket there u a nascar fan?

[@MOONEYDashCam]

More of a jacket fan than a racing fan lol

[@MegaBadboy26]

Great video as always Mooney, keep up the great content, you make my day whenever i get a notification you put up a new video

[@MOONEYDashCam]

It makes my day when I post so thank you

[@Chucksevn]

Another great and very informative video, Mooney!😉👍

[@stephen8577]

Awesome video.

[@davejones5822]

good video ..went to most of these locations years ago after reading the book

[@Biaggiotti]

Always love your videos, bro. Such a fascinating series. Already looking forward to the next one. Loving it.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

👍😁

[@declanpeelo131]

Another gread vid bro keep em coming

[@TheGunfighter45acp]

Sounds similar to the "Gemini Method" to me, too.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Almost exactly

[@throwball2248]

Moony love your vids very entertaining love the quality of video and like your narrative, one suggestion is before you go into your stories get into character slick your hair back like the old timers maybe even throw on a old hip length leather coats the kind with the strap in the middle. Keep it up. Great work

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thanks and keep watching that might be in the future 😉

[@lindakurman8642]

Very interesting thanks Mooney

[@FormerlyNYVulgarian]

Another great story covered by Mooney! Stay safe and don’t get caught out in this lousy blizzard!

[@legscoll3296]

Mickey Featherstone was the real crazy that people feared more and he was the one who was most against Italian alliance

[@namelessentity5851]

Why was it so shocking to the court and jury that "Billy" told the others he's not into the really Evil stuff?

[@MOONEYDashCam]

It was more him explaining the situation

[@namelessentity5851]

@@MOONEYDashCam I thank you kindly for the illumination, keep on keepin' on!

[@holeymattress8128]

Excellent job as usual. I recall reading in the Westies, the body was dumped at Wards Island, at the sewage treatment plant... but maybe I am wrong.

[@tommy.32221]

Great video Mooney

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thanks Tommy

[@scottdowns2934]

I enjoy watching your videos !!!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you Scott

[@ahnraemenkhera7451]

“More Twisted!” Very well put. Jimmy Coonan was not necessarily a nice guy. BTW, that bar reminds me of the Bo Weinberg bar scene in “Billy Bathgate.” And the Frank Pantangelo bar scene in Godfather 2. Any connection? If not, they must’ve hired the same architect. No escaping Roy DeMeo! Just “covered the waterfront” of the 1970s, that guy! I suppose Coonan is the basis for “Jack” in “State of Grace,” too. 💀

[@aaronsartore6988]

The Wes ties were the farm team persay to the demeo crew. Castallano, gaggi, and Roy, all has a meeting at Tomassos, putting Roy in charge of westies. This was a attempt of Roy’s Gemini method. Great video. But Roy was in charge of keeping the westies in line the best he could. Great video

[@simon-zh3qb]

Don't know how anybody in that life ever got a wink of sleep, i really don't.The images in their heads of what they did everyday&the fear of reprisal's would turn me into a complete insomniac,worrying,stressing out,scanning faces,car's 24/7.Slightest noise at night outside my home.wow think i'd be praying for the feds to come get me lol

[@MOONEYDashCam]

You’re not wrong

[@andreamarin4296]

Yes loved this. Wow they were a sick bunch. So they were a fringe gang of the mafia? Learning so much from your videos. Thank you so much!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

They were a bunch of neighborhood guys that grew to one of the most feared crews separate from the Italian mafia

[@yankees29]

Neighborhood guys mostly of Irish descent. Some weren’t Irish. Many of them had union jobs in the Jacob Javits center. I saw a Westie doing security at Chelsea TV studio when I went to a talk show taping. He had a shamrock tattoo on the web between his thumb and pointer finger. One of the dudes I was with started beefing with a camera man. As we were leaving the camera man had told security what happened. My stupid friend wanted to fight them. I was trying to explain that these dudes were some cold ass white boys. My buddy is Puerto Rican so he had no idea who the Westies were. He took my advice and walked away thank god.

[@58bobw]

Great video and story MDC! Gory as hell but you kept it funny and real, no sugarcoating. That NASCAR Jacket you got cost about $150 new back in the day so hold onto it tight. Someone was either a Ryan Newman or Jeremy Mayfield fan cause they ran Dodges and Alltel sponsored them. Unlike yourself, I’m a race fan, not a jacket fan LOL 😝

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I appreciate that and thanks for the backstory on the jacket lol

[@GrahamNessPasyer]

WOW! He was crazier than GASPIPE!!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Much crazier

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

Got to be Roy Demeo Mooney...you cleaned ya van yet Mooney ?

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Still a dirty mess

[@wmjohn8230]

I’ll tell ya what, you do a really good job with these videos. They’re simple and clean and I really like the way you tell the story. Figure out a way (or two) we can help support you and do some plugs. Gas for that tank you drive can’t be cheap!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you I really do appreciate it and you guys watching is enough payment for me

[@diningroomfish5470]

Great video moonstuck 😆

[@MOONEYDashCam]

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[@diningroomfish5470]

@@MOONEYDashCam what happened to my first comment?? It's not there anymore

[@MOONEYDashCam]

@@diningroomfish5470 I’m Not sure I don’t ever delete comments

[@RedQNZ]

If you go you go on KZbin and search State of Grace Car Scene there is a great scene of Garry Oldman and Sean Penn driving around that area with the Rolling Stones playing in the background

[@Ryan-sw8rx]

Reminds me of Roy demeo

[@UncleJunior240]

I should have watched some of your videos from the Manhattan before I visited this summer. I walked right by several historical mob sites like the original Umberto's clam house on mulberry without even knowing while visiting the old Ravenite

[@paulwilliams4092]

My era brilliant story 💙

[@sueweddell9143]

Love all your videos keep them coming 👍🏻

[@MOONEYDashCam]

👍

[@joelow1290]

Hey, Great video. Have you read the book on The Westies ? Great read.

[@MOONEYDashCam]

I haven’t but I might have to after all these mentions of it in these comments

[@debdano44]

I love your video’s! Thanks for doing them!

[@MOONEYDashCam]

Thank you for watching them