Salvatore Catalano was born in the province of Palermo, Sicily, in 1941, one of six children, the oldest of three boys. His mother died when he was a child, his father was a conductor that sold tickets on the Palermo-Argigento bus line. In 1966, with his two brothers Dominick and Vita and one of his sisters Vita, the twenty-five year old Catalano came to the U.S. settling in a $180-a-month apartment on Hemlock Street in Queens, near the Cypress Hills Cemetery. According to his lawyer, Catalano's first job was working as a machinist in a scientific corporation, a claim that the FBI Agent Charles Rooney commented, "What was he working on, F-14s?" Later Catalano managed his brother's gift shop on Knickerbocker Avenue and in 1977 he bought a Queens pizzeria with Guiseppe Ganci and Cesare Bonve
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| - Salvatore Catalano was born in the province of Palermo, Sicily, in 1941, one of six children, the oldest of three boys. His mother died when he was a child, his father was a conductor that sold tickets on the Palermo-Argigento bus line. In 1966, with his two brothers Dominick and Vita and one of his sisters Vita, the twenty-five year old Catalano came to the U.S. settling in a $180-a-month apartment on Hemlock Street in Queens, near the Cypress Hills Cemetery. According to his lawyer, Catalano's first job was working as a machinist in a scientific corporation, a claim that the FBI Agent Charles Rooney commented, "What was he working on, F-14s?" Later Catalano managed his brother's gift shop on Knickerbocker Avenue and in 1977 he bought a Queens pizzeria with Guiseppe Ganci and Cesare Bonve
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| - Salvatore Catalano was born in the province of Palermo, Sicily, in 1941, one of six children, the oldest of three boys. His mother died when he was a child, his father was a conductor that sold tickets on the Palermo-Argigento bus line. In 1966, with his two brothers Dominick and Vita and one of his sisters Vita, the twenty-five year old Catalano came to the U.S. settling in a $180-a-month apartment on Hemlock Street in Queens, near the Cypress Hills Cemetery. According to his lawyer, Catalano's first job was working as a machinist in a scientific corporation, a claim that the FBI Agent Charles Rooney commented, "What was he working on, F-14s?" Later Catalano managed his brother's gift shop on Knickerbocker Avenue and in 1977 he bought a Queens pizzeria with Guiseppe Ganci and Cesare Bonventre. By being involved in the Sicilian Mafia he came to notice by the Bonanno crime Family who decided to bring him over to New York. In 1966 25 year old Catalano entered America where he started to run business for the Bonanno's. He was part of the so called Zips, a name given to Sicilian born mobsters who were brought over to America by the Family bosses to maintain close relationships with their native country. Catalano settled down in Knickerbocker Avenue which was then under the command of Bonanno capo Pietro Licata. During these years the Bonanno's imported several men from Sicily to bring the ties between both countries closer, but especially to involve themselves more in the Sicilian heroin trafficking.
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