Judge Vincent Lupiano: A Follow Up

I was pleased to find out that the Lupiano family discovered the blogposts about the Judge. Above is a close-up from a grouping of pictures posted previously
from the Judge's son Vincent who is seen above as a young boy in the 1950 photo from Life Magazine

I was stunned to see the story and pictures of my father, Vincent A. Lupiano, in the March 10, 2010, issue of KV. I have hardcopies of the pictures which show my father, mother and sister, as well as the whole family. Those photos were taken in my grandparents’ (father’s side) basement in Brooklyn, and I have no idea who took them and where they wound up. I believe it was either a Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner. It had to be around 1950 because I appear to be about 10 years old and my sister five. I remember being terribly bored!
I have very fond memories of KV. My favorite grandfather (mother’s side) lived there. He was a surgeon and had lived in a brownstone on Cherry Street; his office was on the ground floor. He sold the brownstone and moved into KV. I have very vivid memories of my uncle coming home to KV from the war. The apartment was filled with friends and family waiting for him to arrive. It was 1945, and I was about five. In fact, I have a picture of me and my uncle in the courtyard of KV. He’s wearing his Marine Corps uniform with captain’s bars taken a few days after he came back from the Pacific. The biggest story was an article the Daily News wrote about my father condemning him for living there because, relatively speaking, his salary was too big for someone living in KV. The article said he should move out and make room for another family. He was a judge then and his salary was above average, and the publicity wasn’t very good. As a result, we moved out in 1948 on a day that dropped nearly 30 inches of snow on the city. We moved to 302 West 12th Street in the Village. I could go on and on about KV. Thanks for giving the pictures and story such prominence.-Vince

Judge Vincent Lupiano: 1950 Photo Essay

Lupiano Life
from a December 1950 photo essay in Life Magazine by Al Fenn. I believe it coincides with Lupiano's election to the New York City Court.
from the new york state centennial court site

VINCENT A. LUPIANO
Associate Justice 1974-1982 Born: 1908
Died: September 15, 1982
Upon Justice Vincent A. Lupiano’s induction into the New York State Supreme Court, his father, Dominick Lupiano, who had been operator of the justices’ private elevator in the New York County Supreme Court Building for 42 years, came out of retirement to operate the elevator his son took on the day of his installation. His father’s "dream came true" for his son.
Vincent A. Lupiano was born in New York City in 1908. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School and graduated from New York University. He was an accomplished pianist, and his musical talent helped him pay his way through college and law school. He received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1931.
From 1931 to 1944, Lupiano practiced law in New York City. He was elected a New York City Municipal Court Judge in 1944 and served there until 1950, when he was elected to the New York City Court. Four years later he was elected to the Supreme Court. In 1974, Justice Lupiano was appointed by Governor Malcolm Wilson to the Appellate Division First Department, where he remained until his death in 1982.
In 1974, the Columbian Lawyers Association honored Justice Lupiano with its Charles A. Rapallo Award in recognition of his "judicial excellence."
Justice Lupiano was married in 1939 to Roselle Sarubbi Lupiano, with whom he had two children. He died on September 15, 1982, at age 74.

134 White Street: Then And Then And Now

As is often the case you're searching for something and you find something else much more interesting instead. The above was found using a search query of baxter street on the life images site. 134 White is where KVer Joe Bruno lived until 1963, the year he moved to Knickerbocker Village. Baxter Street on the right is where a favorite KV dining spot, Forlini's, is located. The Bail Bonds' office can be seen in lower right of the "then" picture below. A story about the picture below can be found on this prior post

About Mr. Paris who is headed to the Tombs in the 1947 picture. (btw, I believe the caption is incorrect in stating "being led from")

Alvin J. Paris (born 1918) was a New York bookmaker and gambler who, as a "front man" for a gambling syndicate based in Elizabeth, New Jersey, fixed college sporting events through bribing of star athletes, including Rocky Marciano.[1]
After being recorded on federal wiretaps on December 15, 1946 in an investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan, a former assistant to crusading New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey, he was convicted of attempting to bribe professional football players Merle Hapes and Frank Filchock of the New York Giants with $2,500 each to throw the NFL championship game against the Chicago Bears. Paris was eventually convicted of bribery on January 8, 1947 and, although Hapes and Fitchcock were cleared of bribery charges, both men were initially suspended by then league commissioner Bert Bell (with Filchock being allowed to play the final game against the Chicago Bears).
During his trial, Paris chose not to take the stand in his own defense and later testified against his partners David Krakauer, Jerome Zarowitz and Harvey Stemmer, for which he would later receive death threats. Paris's sentencing had been deferred until after the second trial and he received a one-year sentence on April 7 of which he served nine months before his parole.

postscript from Joe:

Only problem is, he's walking toward the Tombs, not away from it. You can see where Forlini's was in the background right and Cecila and Denis Maruffi's building is a few doors before Forlini's. When I was a kid, Frankie Russo had a bail bonds office in the bottom of my building on the corner.

Vincent Impelliteri 2

Many of these are from the 1952 mayoral campaign. Wagner, with backing from the regular Democrats, including FDR Jr. won. I was looking to see if my father was one of the onlookers at one of the rallies that took place in the garment center. The last picture is one of his car when he was mayor
impellitteri

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1952: The Opening Of The Baruch Houses

from Life Magazine, featuring such luminaries as President Eisenhower, Bernard Baruch, Robert Moses, Governor Thomas Dewey, and Mayor Vincent Impellitteri
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Life Magazine: Oliver Street

Oliver Street in the 1940's before the Smith Projects were built. Al Smith's home is visible (approximately where the car furthest away is) as is Jim Jim's on the corner down by Madison Street.

Life Magazine Teams With Google

LIFE magazine has teamed up with Google to host all their photos online through images.google.com.  It is quite an impressive collection going back to the 1750’s.  Here is the blurb and below is the link.

’Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1930's to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Here is the link.
Info on the image above which I was able to find on that site:
View of new housing project with the Manhattan Bridge in the background. on the Lower East Side of the city.
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: October 1957
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
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