Al Capone married his wife Mae Coughlin at her family's church in Carroll Gardens on December 18, 1918, shortly after she gave birth to their first child. Popular myths … allege that Capone left Brooklyn to escape murder charges soon after his wedding. Newer research reveals that Capone moved out of New York around 1920 simply to try and make a better life for his new family. He worked a legitimate job as a bookkeeper in Baltimore before heading to Chicago at the behest of Johnny Torrio. [link]

Johnny Torrio set Al Capone up to work as a bouncer and bartender for gangster Frankie Yale at this club on Coney Island. It was here in 1917 that Capone got his famous … facial scars after telling a fellow mobster's sister that she had a "nice ass." Capone ended up ordering Frankie Yale's murder in 1928 because of disagreements over shipments of bootleg booze. (photo) [link]

Early mafia mastermind Johnny Torrio had his headquarters in a social club on the second floor of a restaurant on this corner, one block from where Al Capone lived with … his family. Torrio gave Al his introduction to organized crime by recruiting him for small jobs and introducing him to Frankie Yale. In 1920, when Al moved to Chicago, it was to work for Johnny and his associate "Big Jim" Colosimo. (photo) [link]

During Al Capone's teenage years, this area of Brooklyn was home to a number of brothels and seedy bars. It is believed that Al contracted the syphilis that eventually killed him during a youthful visit to one of these Sands Street bordellos. [link]

Al transferred to this school in the second grade. For the next four years he maintained a B-average, but by sixth grade, he had become a frequent truant and was held … back. During his second sixth-grade stint, he was expelled after hitting one of his teachers during an argument. (photo) [link]

In 1907, the Capone family moved into an apartment in 38 Garfield Place, on the edge of Park Slope. The Capones eventually lived in several other buildings on the block, … including 46 and 21 Garfield Place. Al often hung out at a club at 20 Garfield Place, where he earned a reputation as a skilled pool shark. [link]

In his book "Capone, " writer John Kobler says that Al attended this Brooklyn elementary school with "some of the borough's toughest delinquents." Kobler claims Capone was taught here by a sixteen year-old girl named Sadie Mulvaney. She would later remember her famous pupil as "a swarthy, sullen, troublesome boy." The school building was … razed in 1992 to make way for residential facilities for the Jehovah's Witnesses "Watchtower" headquarters. [link]

Gabriele Capone ran a barber shop in this building just around the corner from his family's home. Census records indicate that the Capones may have also briefly lived here. [link]

Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in an apartment at this Red Hook address. His parents, Gabriele and Teresina, were poor immigrants from Naples, Italy. Capone biographer Laurence Bergreen described the Navy Street tenement as a "primitive" dwelling with toilets in a "small shack" in the backyard. [link]