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Vincent Riccio
VINCENT ANTHONY RICCIO was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the fifteenth of twenty-one children, six of whom lived. His father, a barber, died when he was eleven, and he spent the next few year...view moreVINCENT ANTHONY RICCIO was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the fifteenth of twenty-one children, six of whom lived. His father, a barber, died when he was eleven, and he spent the next few years living off home relief and whatever odd jobs he could pick up while struggling to get an undistinguished high-school education. He never starved (“My mother could make spaghetti last forever”), but he was hungry. And he stole. Food. He was a member of a kid gang and fought in their fights, but “always with sticks and now and then baseball bats. But no knives, guns or Molotov cocktails.”
He was a product of the neighborhood in which he later tried to help kid gangsters.
Mr. Riccio received his training in education from Teachers College at Columbia University and became known for his work with street gangs and young drug addicts. He was dean of boys at John Jay High School in Brooklyn, where he often found himself involved in gang situations.view less