Vincenzo Terranova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vincenzo Terranova

American mobster

Date of Birth: 15-May-1886

Place of Birth: Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 08-May-1922

Profession: organized crime

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Vincenzo "the Tiger of Harlem" Terranova (May 1886 – May 8, 1922) was a gangster and an early Italian-American organized crime figure in the United States.
He served as boss and underboss of the Morello crime family, today known as the Genovese crime family, the oldest of the Five Families in New York City. Terranova was born in Corleone, Sicily in 1886.
He was the first son of Bernardo Terranova, a member of the Mafia in Corleone, and his wife Angelina Piazza.
Angelina had a son from a previous marriage, Giuseppe Morello, and would later give birth to Vincenzo's two brothers, Ciro Terranova and Nicolo Terranova.
Vincenzo, Nicolo and Ciro along with other relatives emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York on March 8, 1893.
Giuseppe Morello had immigrated to New York the previous year and sometime in the 1890s founded a gang known as the 107th Street Mob, which evolved into the Morello crime family.
His three half brothers would eventually join him in this enterprise.