Vincenzo Terranova

{{Short description|American mobster}}

{{About|the real-life gangster|the fictitious FBI undercover agent/"gangster" in the television series Wiseguy|Wiseguy (TV series)}}

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| name = Vincenzo Terranova

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|05|15}}

| birth_place = Corleone, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1922|5|8|1886|05|15}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| cause = Murder by gunshot

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| allegiance = Morello crime family

| conviction = Counterfeiting (1910)

| occupation = Crime boss

| predecessor = Nicholas Morello

| successor = Giuseppe Masseria

| father = Bernardo Terranova

| mother = Angelina Piazza

| relatives = Nicholas Terranova (brother), Ciro Terranova (brother), Giuseppe Morello (half brother)

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Vincenzo "the Tiger of Harlem" Terranova (May 15, 1886 – May 8, 1922) was a gangster and an early Italian-American organized crime figure in the United States. He succeeded Nicholas Morello as boss of the then Morello Gang in 1916 and was succeeded in turn by Giuseppe Masseria in 1922. He served as boss and underboss of the Morello crime family, today known as the Genovese crime family, the oldest of the Five Families in New York City.

Terranova was born in Corleone, Sicily in 1886.{{cite book|last=Critchley|first=David|title=The Origin of Organized Crime in America : the New York City Mafia, 1891–1931|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0-415-99030-1|pages=51–54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uX29UdJJ3qYC&q=morello+crime+family+giuseppe+terranova&pg=PA52}} He was the first son of Bernardo Terranova, a member of the Mafia in Corleone, and his wife Angelina Piazza. Angelina had a son from a previous marriage, Giuseppe Morello, and would later give birth to Vincenzo's two brothers, Ciro Terranova and Nicolo Terranova. Vincenzo, Nicolo and Ciro along with other relatives emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York on March 8, 1893. Giuseppe Morello had immigrated to New York the previous year and sometime in the 1890s founded a gang known as the 107th Street Mob, which evolved into the Morello crime family. His three half brothers would eventually join him in this enterprise.