‘Legs’ Diamond murder house on the market

“Slain in Sleep at Albany by Two Assassins”

Carol C. Bradley
ILLUMINATION
Published in
8 min readMar 14, 2023

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The landmark house in Albany, New York, where Prohibition-era Irish gangster and bootlegger Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond was gunned down on Dec. 18, 1931, just went on the market for $499,000.

67 Dove Street, where ‘Legs’ Diamond was murdered in 1931. Daniel Case, Wikimedia Commons

The three-story, 1857-vintage home at 67 Dove Street (described at the time as “a cheap rooming house”) has been…

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Carol C. Bradley
ILLUMINATION

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