“I was thinking, like a lot of people, that it would be fun to have a trinket in the house and say, `Oh, this was Joe Barbara’s,'” said Apalachin resident Janis Higgins. Not everyone at ...

Inside the Apalachin retreat was a bar so big it belonged ... With Genovese calling for a meeting, it was agreed that Joe Barbara’s tucked-away farm ranch would be a perfect setting: It was ...

All but one told the police they had traveled to Apalachin to visit their sick friend, Joe Barbara – one said his car had broken down. The police found their stories ridiculous but had nothing ...

each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from as far away as Los Angeles or Dallas or Cleveland) and just happened to drop in on ailing Pal Joe Barbara. Conflicting Detail. Actually ...

The only thing we got out of them was they came to visit Joe Barbara because they heard he ... said it is inconceivable there could be another Apalachin-like meeting today.

That historic gathering was a carefully planned summit by the American Mafia, held at the home of mobster Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara in Apalachin, New York. At least 100 mafia crime bosses ...

For $1 a head, visitors to the “crime shrine” could gawk at Barbara’s 22-karat coffee service and mirrored coffee table. “Apalachin Joe Barbecues” were 50 cents extra. The attraction ...

On Nov. 14, 1957, 56 years ago today, New York state troopers noticed a suspicious number of expensive cars with out-of-state license plates converging on the small town of Apalachin.* The cars ...