An NYPD detective dubbed the ‘Italian Sherlock Holmes’ is honored in Brooklyn a century after his death

An NYPD detective dubbed the ‘Italian Sherlock Holmes’ is honored in Brooklyn a century after his death

Nearly a century after his death, an NYPD detective is being remembered and honored for his gallant service to the city. During the Roaring Twenties, the mafia ran roughshod over a very different New York, but one man took it upon himself to take on the dangerous world of organized crime and made headlines along the way — yet the true extent of his law enforcement gumption was lost to time.  Detective Joseph Pucciano had been resting in Brooklyn…