Gangsters Lore and Legend Lives on at the Chelsea Hotel

      You don't mess with Rico, see.  Our fellow Chelsea Hotel resident and pro-Bard activist Arthur Nash has a new book due out soon, "American Gangster: An Illustrated History of the Mob," (Madison Press   Books, 2009).  The book features rare photos and gangster-related artifacts from Nash's personal archives that he assembled over 15 years.  For a preview, visit the Discovery Channel's website and see photos of Lucky Luciano, Joey Gallo playing with a dwarf two months before he was shot down, Abel Ferrara wearing Gallo's hat, piles of confiscated bootleg liquor, and Nash himself standing beside the barber chair where Albert Anastasia himself was assasinated.  Check it out today.  And buy a copy of Arthur's book when it comes out too, you dirty rat!