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The luxe Greenwich Village pad used by Mafia goons and NBA stars to run rigged poker games was a noisy hell for its neighbors, who lodged more than three dozen 311 complaints about it, city records show.
The complaints about the six-story townhouse at 80 Washington Place — referred to in the sprawling indictment as the “Washington Place” — were made while it was one of two illegal casinos where prosecutors say mobsters swindled their gambling victims out of millions.
Officials say the fraudsters began using the home — located just steps from Washington Square Park on one of the city’s most desirable blocks — to run their scheme around January 2021, which is just when the complaints began to pour in.
The first call to 311 rolled in around 3 a.m. on Jan. 16, 2021 for a mass gathering on the sidewalk outside and a similar complaint about loud talking on the street was made just four days later at 2:28 a.m., records show.
That’s when the townhouse apparently turned up the volume and inundated the otherwise sleepy neighborhood with ear-splitting noise in the middle of the night.
Over the next 20 months 311 complaints were logged by the city — almost all of which were for excessive noise or partying inside the house and on the street outside.
The earliest of those complaints was lodged at 11:30 p.m. — with some indicating that the parties mayt have lasted as late as 7 in the morning.
The parties were apparently nearly constant during May of 2021, when 11 noise complaints were logged.
Neighbors reported drug use outside the home, trash littering the sidewalk outside and, oddly, homeless encampments that were set up outside.
The scene quieted down in January 2023 and remained so through October of that year, which is when federal investigators estimate they dismantled their illegal gambling ring from the home.
It’s not clear whether the rambunctious and hard-partying alleged criminals were ever dinged for their behavior.
The NYPD, which is dispatched to most noise complaints, noted that they “responded to the complaint and took action to fix the condition,” but could not immediately tell The Post whether that involved tickets or summonses, or simply verbal warnings.
Other agencies, such as the Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Sanitation, did not find evidence of the complaints by the time they responded — except for one report of a dead mouse on the sidewalk, which Sanitation workers cleaned up.
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The ritzy townhouse was one of several two-Manhattan digs where mobsters allegedly ran their rigged poker games.
Four of the five New York City La Cosa Nostra families were alleged to be involved in the fixed poker games: the Gambinos, Genoveses, Luccheses and Bonannos, according to prosecutors.
They allegedly used sophisticated cheating tech like rigged X-ray card tables, crooked card shufflers, and special glasses and contact lenses that could spy marked cards — and used famous NBA players as “face cards” to lure in their deep-ocketed victims.
Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups and former NBA player Damon Jones were named in a sprawling federal indictment this week.
A second NBA-related indictment this week involves an illegal sports gambling ring that placed bets on games using insider information about the Los Angeles Lakers, Toronto Raptors, Charlotte Hornets and Portland Trail Blazers and their players.
