Edward Cummiskey’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story
A longtime gangster of the Manhattan’s Westside ghetto known as Hell’s Kitchen, Cummiskey served under Mickey Spillane following his release from prison. He was allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Genovese bookmaker Eli Zicardi as well as later participating in the gang war between Spillane and Coonan during the mid-1960s. While serving time in an upstate New York prison, Cummiskey learned the trade of butchery, allowing him to take advantage of his sentence to perfect a new and gruesome murder method.
During the early 1970s, Cummiskey took on a young protégé by the name of James “Jimmy C” Coonan, a violent younger generation Irish hoodlum who wanted to take out the old-timer Mickey Spillane.
Coonan had a following amongst the younger Irish in the neighborhood (including Billie Beattie, Billy Bokun, Jackie Coonan, Eddie Coonan, Mickey Featherstone, Jimmy McElroy, Joey Schultz, Richie Ryan and Tommy Hess) as well as earning the respect of some old timers such as Tommy Collins, who shifted their allegiance to Coonan from Spillane. It was not long before the feared Cummiskey favored working for Coonan over Spillane.
