Editing Carlo Gambino (section)

==Early life and family==
Carlo Gambino was born in [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]], on August 24, 1902,{{refn|name="birth date"|group="nb"}} to a family that belonged to the [[Sicilian Mafia]] from the Passo di Rigano neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2008/10/21/da-lucky-luciano-charles-gambino-boss-del.html|title=Da Lucky Luciano a Charles Gambino i boss del mare tra Sicilia e America|date=October 21, 2008|publisher=repubblica.it|language=it}}</ref> He had two brothers: Gaspare, who was not involved with the Mafia, and Paolo, who was a part of what would become the [[Gambino crime family]]. His parents were Italian immigrants Tommaso Gambino and Felice Castellano.

Gambino entered the United States on December 23, 1921, at [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], [[Virginia]], as a [[stowaway]] on the SS ''Vincenzo Florio''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Davis |first=John H. |title=Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=1993 |isbn=0-06-016357-7|page=27}}</ref> He made his way to [[New York City]] to join his cousins, the Castellanos, and worked for a small trucking firm owned by their family.<ref name=nydies/> Gambino later moved to a modest house located at 2230 Ocean Parkway in [[Brooklyn]]; his [[Long Island]] residence, located at 34 Club Drive in [[Massapequa, New York|Massapequa]], [[New York (state)|New York]], served as his summer home. The two-story brick house, surrounded by a low fence with marble statues on the front lawn, was at the end of a cul-de-sac in Harbor Green Estates, overlooking the [[South Oyster Bay]]. 

In 1932, Gambino married one of his cousins, Catherine Castellano, sister of future Gambino family [[crime boss|boss]] [[Paul Castellano]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ROwyz5calrsC&q=gambino+catherine+castellano+1932&pg=PA187|title=Mafia Wife: Revised Edition My Story of Love, Murder, and Madness|author=Lynda Milito|year=2012|publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781479735402}}</ref> They raised four children&nbsp;– sons [[Thomas Gambino|Thomas]], Joseph (March 28, 1936 – February 20, 2020<ref name="Joe Gambino">{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/joseph-gambino-mafia-ruler-of-nycs-garment-district-dead-at-83/|title=Joseph Gambino, Mafia ruler of NYC's Garment District, dead at 83 |date=March 20, 2020|author=Jerry Capeci |website=New York Post|language=en-us|access-date=March 21, 2020}}</ref>) and Carlo Jr. (1934–2019) and a daughter, Phyllis Gambino Sinatra (September 22, 1927 – February 19, 2007).