Jim Dwyer, on the funeral of Jimmy McElroy, 66, who died in a California prison while serving a life sentence for activities with the Westies, the notorious Irish-American gang that ruled the West Side of Manhattan for a good while through the 1980s:
The start of the funeral mass at the Church of Holy Cross on West 42nd Street was delayed a bit for a ring ceremony to complete for the eighth graders.
"Jimmy McElroy had himself once been an eighth grader, but not a ninth grader. He dropped out of school to work..."
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