Costabile Farace - Early Years

Early Years

Farace was born in 1960 in Bushwick to Costabile Farace Sr. a first-generation emigrant from Canastra, Italy, and Mary Granato. At the age of five they moved from Bushwick to Tottenville, Staten Island. He used several dates of birth, August 20, 1959, January 1, 1960, June 20, 1960 and June 21, 1960. He stood at 6'3 and weighed 220 pounds with a tattoo of a girl on his lower calf, another girl tattoo on his right leg and a butterfly on his stomach. Later that year, Farace's family moved to Prince's Bay, Staten Island. His father Gus opened a small grocery store, G&S in the island's Great Kills neighborhood (the store closed in 1983) on Hylan Boulevard in Tottenville, Staten Island. Constabile Sr. and his brother Frank were fringe members of a Colombo crime family illegal gambling ring. Farace was a paternal first cousin of Dominick Farace, the son of Frank Farace and maternal cousin of Mark Granato. He also was a cousin to Michael A Farace, Michael J Farace and Vincent Farace. Vincent Farace is a recognized made man in the Bronx faction of the Bonanno crime family. He attended Totten Intermediate School 34 in Tottenville where he was considered the class flirt in grade eight. As a child he was considered the class clown, a poor student, popular and gregarious. He played Peewee football in Wolfe's Pond Park. In 1975 he entered Tottenville High School and joined a street gang of adolescent delinquents called 'the Bay Boys' who liked to intimidate, pick fights and break heads. In January 1977 he was pulled over for reckless driving and after being searched by the police they found a gun on his person. Three weeks later, he was arrested for forgery, but he avoided a jail sentence because he was a youth.