Editing Salvatore Maranzano (section)

=== Death ===
By September 1931, Maranzano realized Luciano was a threat, and hired [[Mad Dog Coll]], an Irish gangster, to kill him. However, [[Tommy Lucchese]] alerted Luciano that he was marked for death.<ref>Maas, p. 80</ref> On September 10, Maranzano ordered Luciano and Genovese to come to his office at the New York Central Building (now the [[Helmsley Building]]), at 230 Park Avenue in [[Manhattan]]. Convinced that Maranzano planned to murder them, Luciano decided to act first. He sent to Maranzano's office four Jewish gangsters whose faces were unknown to Maranzano's people. They had been secured with the aid of Lansky, Siegel and Gambino.<ref name="Dec. 7, 1998">"Lucky Luciano: Criminal Mastermind," ''Time'', [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989779,00.html Dec. 7, 1998]</ref> Disguised as government agents, two of the gangsters disarmed Maranzano's bodyguards. The other two, aided by Lucchese, who was there to point Maranzano out, stabbed the boss multiple times before shooting him.<ref name=saga>"The Genovese Family," ''Crime Library'', [http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/genovese1/2.html ''Crime Library''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214043547/http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/genovese1/2.html |date=December 14, 2007 }}</ref> This assassination was the first of what would later be called the "Night of the [[Sicilian Vespers]]".<ref name=saga/> Although there would have been few objections had Luciano declared himself ''capo di tutti capi'', he abolished the title, believing the position created trouble among the families and would make himself a target for another ambitious challenger.<ref name=capital>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivN7BAAAQBAJ&q=lucky+luciano+church+prison+the+Victoria%2C+the+ship+of+Ferdinand+Magella&pg=PA51|title=Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties|author=David Wallace|year=2012|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7627-6819-6}}</ref> Luciano subsequently created [[The Commission (mafia)|The Commission]] to serve as the governing body for organized crime.<ref name=origins>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/20/nyregion/the-commission-s-origins.html|title=The Commission's Origins|date=1986|work=The New York Times|access-date=22 February 2017}}</ref> Maranzano is buried in [[St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York|Saint John Cemetery]], [[Queens]], New York, near Luciano's grave.<ref>{{cite news |last=Torbatnejad |first=Mehrnoosh |title=Cemetery has a mob of mafiosi |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/cemetery-mob-mafiosi-article-1.312368 |access-date=2013-01-07 |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=2008-02-26}}</ref>