New York City’s working waterfront has been widely associated with crime and corruption at least since On The Waterfront hit movie screens in 1954, but the story goes back further. Nathan Ward, author of Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront and CUNY scholar Joseph Sciorra join us to reveal the story of Pete Panto, a longshoreman who took a stand against the mob bosses. Though Panto paid the ultimate price, his death initiated a long struggle toward waterfront reform.
- Ward, Nathan, Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront (2011)
- Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College
- WATCH Pete Panto Conference (2001) Part 1 • Part 2
- “Chi è Pete Panto?”, Joseph Sciorra
- Brave New World Repertory Theatre – The Hook & A View from the Bridge (2019)
- Russell Sage Foundation, The Longshoremen (1915)
