Playboy's History Of Organized Crime, Part Iii: Slicing Up The Big Apple
October, 1973
There are no commemorative plaques on the benches in New York's Central Park, but maybe there ought to be. The nation's elder statesman Bernard Baruch sat on one of them for years, holding court, philosophizing, advising, handing down judgments that would influence the direction of the nation and the world. And just inside the southern boundary of the park on 59th Street, there is another bench where, during the decade after World War One, an underworld elder statesman, Arnold Rothstein, held co...
