Sparks Steak House

We couldn't get him in the right spot.

And one day when we were in the basement, me, Frankie DiCicco, John Gotti... and another guy or two, and Frankie and Chico said, Sammy, I have a meeting, one of my guys will reach, Paul's gonna want a meeting in Sparks Steakhouse at 5.30 at night, and this, that, and the other thing, and I'm gonna be there, and there'll be some guys there, Jimmy Brown, Danny Marino, and a few guys.

So I said, that's it? And John Gotti turned around and looked at me, he says, what do you mean, that's it? I said, that's the spot.

We know the restaurant.

Eventually, thanks to a bug in Castellano's home and surveillance photos of a meeting of the heads of the crime families, the grand jury returned an indictment against everyone at the meeting, including Castellano.

Before he went to trial, however, John Gaudi made a power play to become head of the Gambino family by having Castellano assassinated in front of Sparks Steakhouse on December 16, 1985.

When John Gaudi's underboss, Sammy the Bull Gravano, testified against Gaudi in the trial in which Gaudi was convicted of his part in the murder of Castellano, Gravano also recalled Castellano's lack of reaction to DiMeo's demise.

Apparently, when one accepts the life, one accepts whatever form of death comes with it.

[laughs]

I grew up here in New York City, and my dad would take me to Sparks Steak House right down the street in 1978.

Oh, it's so fun.

And those lunches were three hours long, and I learned that a vodka martini could be paired with anything.

[laughs]

I, I grew up here in New York City, and my dad would take me to Sparks Steak House right down the street in 1978.

Oh, it's so fun.

And those lunches were three hours long, and I learned that a vodka martini could be paired with anything.

Eventually, thanks to a bug in Castellano's home and surveillance photos of a meeting of the heads of the crime families, the grand jury returned an indictment against everyone at the meeting, including Castellano.

Before he went to trial, however, John Gaudi made a power play to become head of the Gambino family by having Castellano assassinated in front of Sparks Steakhouse on December 16, 1985.

When John Gaudi's underboss, Sammy the Bull Gravano, testified against Gaudi in the trial in which Gaudi was convicted of his part in the murder of Castellano, Gravano also recalled Castellano's lack of reaction to DiMeo's demise.

Apparently, when one accepts the life, one accepts whatever form of death comes with it.

No.

If I'm in New York, I'm going to Spark Steakhouse.

Sure.

That's the, the famous place where Paul Castellano, I think, took out-

He wanted to do a dinner.

So we met in Manhattan at a place called Sparks Steak House, and I'm running late because driving in from New Jersey to New York is not a good idea during traffic.

Yeah.

[laughs]

He was the biggest mafia guy in the world.

He was gunned down in front of Sparks Steakhouse.

Look it up, Kobe Elfield.

You can see it.

And then Gambino died, and then, yeah.

He was looking to rub out John Gotti, and John Gotti said, I'm going to rub you out first.

And they rubbed him out right in the middle of, in front of Sparks Steakhouse.

Kobe, do not Google rubbed out, though.