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165 Prince St., North End
A short jaunt down from Mafia boss Angiulo's headquarters, the hulking garage where The Great Brink's Robbery occurred still stands today, bordered by Prince, Commercial, and Hull streets. It is used for Fleet Center event parking.
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One of the most infamous holdups in history happened in the North End in 1950. During the chilly evening of Jan. 17, a group of masked gunmen crept into Brink's North Terminal Garage at 165 Prince St. According to the FBI, the robbers wore Navy pea coats, chauffeur caps, and Halloween masks and forced five employees to lie on the floor at gunpoint. The seven robbers then dragged their bags of loot out onto Prince Street and into a 1949 Ford truck, speeding away with approximately $1.2 million in cash and $1.5 million in checks and securities.
The Great Brink's Robbery dominated newspaper headlines for weeks. The Brink's Gang -- Joseph J. "Specs" O'Keefe, Adolph "Jazz" Maffie, Anthony Pino, Thomas F. Richardson, Joseph McGinnis, Stanley A. Gusciora, Vincent J. Costa, Joseph S. Banfield, Henry Baker, Michael V. Geagan, and James I. Faherty -- inspired several books and even a 1978 movie starring Peter Falk. According to the FBI, O'Keefe confessed to the Brink's robbery in January 1956; Gusciora died in July 1956; Banfield died in 1955; and the remaining eight gangsters were tried in August 1956 in the Suffolk County Courthouse. They were found guilty and received life sentences.
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