The “best thing” James “Whitey” Bulger can do to redeem his reputation as the FBI’s pet rat and a butcher of women, another ex-mobster told the Herald yesterday, is the last thing the Southie ganglord ...

The day he delivered the unkindest cut of all he was issuing a traditional mob warning. Polisi was just out of prison, where a member of the Lucchese crime family had done him a favour by getting him ...

Sal Polisi spent his life awash in mermaids. For more than 30 years, Mr. Polisi, a master woodcarver who died on Jan. 18 at age 79, was a constant, gregarious presence at the South Street Seaport ...

A former mafia enforcer has described the violence, money and glamour of life in the mob, coming clean about why he ratted out on former friends and associates. Salvatore Polisi, known as 'Crazy Sal' ...

From being part of organized crime on the streets of New York to the bright lights of Hollywood, former mobster Salvatore Polisi has seen it all. Come Sunday , Polisi will condense this decades-long ...

It all began with the Hershey’s kisses. As a young boy, Salvatore “Sal” Polisi would steal pieces of chocolate for his sister. As he grew older, he graduated to stealing cars, robbing banks and ...

More then 200 people a day find their way to Sal Polisi’s door, but no matter. Sal’s going to move. The good news is that Polisi, master wood carver in residence at the South Street Seaport Maritime ...

Stop by the South Street Seaport‘s Maritime Craft Center sometime over the next few months and you might catch Sal Polisi carving on Penelope. Or is that Penelope the Second? Polisi, 74, is the center ...