Tom was the first vendor at Buffalo's renovated Commercial Slip in May, 2008.  This is in the old "Canal Street/Dante Place" district.  In 1921-1925, his grandfather Gaetano, grandmother Rosa Alessi, his uncles Guy, Ray, Leonard and Phil, and his aunt Millie lived about four blocks away at the no longer extant 18 Peacock Street.

(Click here for the Buffalo Rising story about Tom.)