Chazz
April, 1999
Start with the name. Chazz. Pure street. Calogero Palminteri was 11 when he got the name. A tall, pouty-lipped Bronx kid, maybe the only 11-year-old on Belmont Avenue who needed to shave. Good with his fists. "I had my fights. Not in the gym, in the street," he says. "The rule in a street fight is this: First guy gets in a shot, he usually wins. So what you do is to sound like you don't want to fight. 'Listen, we don't have to do this,' or 'Look, I don't want to fight you,' like t...
