WELCOME TO QUEENS

WELCOME ALL TO OUR PAGE! IF YOU ARE HERE ITS TO LEARN ABOUT OUR SCREEN PLAY CREATION ABOUT A TRUE STORY THAT TAKES PLACE IN RIDGEWOOD QUEENS NEW YORK, ALSO WITH SUPPORTS FROM OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS AND BOROUGHS SUCH AS FORESTHILLS, MIDDLE VILLAGE, MASPETH, BROOKLYN, AND STATEN ISLAND. THIS IS A TRUE LIFE STORY ON OUR LIFE (JOSEPH TURRIGIANO-VITO RAGO) GROWING UP IN THE STREETS OF QUEENS. GIVING YOU A REAL TASTE OF MODERN TIMES GROWING UP IN THE ITALIAN SICILIAN COMMUNITYS AND THEIR UPS AND DOWNS ABOUT THE HARDSHIPS OF BECOMING A MAN. YOU FOLLOW MYSELF JOE TURRIGIANO AND VITO RAGO AS WE GO FROM LITTLE KIDS WITH GREAT FAMILIES, WITHOUT A WORRY IN THE WORLD. ONCE WE BECOME TEENAGERS THERE ARE THE STRUGGLES AND PAINS OF BECOMING A MAN AND A FAMILY SUPPORTER, A POPULAR PERSON, A POWERFUL IDOL IN THE EYES OF FRIENDS AND ENEMIES, AND PLAYING WITH THE GREAT GIFTS OF LIFE AS IF THEY ARE WORTH NOTHING SHOWING HOW A TEENAGE MAN THINKS HE IS INVISABLE AND CAN STARE DEATH IN THE FACE WITHOUT BLINKING.YOU ALSO LEARN HOW THE CHARACTER GOES THROUGH HARDSHIPS OF LOOSING A FATHER WHO PLAYS A BIG POWERFUL GANGSTER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND TRIES TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE AS THE BREAD WINNER OF HIS HOME AND LIVES IN THE SHADOW AND GLORY OF HIS FATHERS NAME. ALONG THE WAY HE HAS A MENTOR HIS FATHERS BROTHER WHO HELPS THE YOUNG MAN GO FROM STREET PUNK TO BUSINESS MAN OVER NIGHT WITH A VERY VERY BUMPY RELATIONSHIP AND STRUGGLE OF POWER ALONG THE WAY.IN OTHER PARTS THE SCRIPT EXPLAINS HOW WITH DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS COMES DIFFERENT CULTURES AND WITH DIFFERENCE THERE USUALLY IS A CLASH BETWEEN SOME TWO.IN A LUMP SOME OF THIS WHOLE IDEA FOR A GREAT MOVIE IS A YOUNG MAN WHO IS FORCED TO BRING HIS CHILDHOOD FRIENDS FROM HAVING FUN AND SCORING LITTLE NICKEL AND DIME JOBS HERE AND THERE INTO MEN TAKING OVER THE STREETS OF QUEENS AND DEALING WITH SOME BIG HOLES THEY HAVE DUG FOR THEMSELVES ALONG THE WAY, AND GOING TROUGH AN ALL OUT STREET DRUG WAR WITH SOME VERY CLOSE RUSSIAN NEIGHBORS OF THEIRS. YOU CAN SEE AND UNDERSTAND THE STRUGGLES OF EMOTIONS, FEARS, CRIES, TROUBLE, DEATH, JAIL, AND LIFE HAS TO BRING A YOUNG ITALIAN MAN GROWING UP IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF RIDGEWOOD QUEENS AND WHAT HE DOES AND HAS TO DO IN THE END TO BE FORGIVEN BUT MOST OF ALL FORGIVE HIMSELF.....