Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 474
Land area (2000): 1.475574 sq. miles (3.821720 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.475574 sq. miles (3.821720 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02308
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.074407 N, 76.156308 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13732
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Apalachin
Usage examples of "apalachin".
Seldom did this many leaders gather in one place since the Apalachin disaster, when more than a hundred met for a high level conclave and then scattered like frightened quail, running through the woods when the New York State Troopers put up a road block to trap them.
It would be one of the largest since the Apalachin meeting, for this was the second time so many heads of leading families would be taken into custody.
In November 1957, Genovese summoned all America’s top mafiosi to a meeting at the estate of a businessman named Joe Barbara, at Apalachin, in New York State.
No charges were made as a result of the Apalachin round-up - all the gangsters had perfectly legitimate reasons for being there - but the story made nationwide headlines, and Genovese lost face.
Since the Apalachin fiasco of 1957, more and more out-of-town elements of the Outfit had been using the hotel as a safe meeting place.