Albert Anastasia’s Fort Lee Home Being Auctioned

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Steve Lubetkin reporting from 75 Bluff Road, Fort Lee, NJ, the house once owned by mobster Albert Anastasia, inset.Steve Lubetkin reporting from 75 Bluff Road, Fort Lee, NJ, the house once owned by mobster Albert Anastasia, inset.

January 12, 2016

FORT LEE, NJ — (SBN) — The former home of notorious mob boss Albert Anastasia will be auctioned soon by the New York auction house Guernsey’s. The 1.3-acre estate at 75 Bluff Road was most recently owned by real estate developer Arthur Imperatore, and also counts among its owners casino mogul Del Webb and his close friend, comedian Buddy Hackett.

Built in 1947 to exacting specifications from Anastasia, who headed the mob’s “Murder Inc.” assassination squad, the house has foot-and-a-half thick walls, which Anastasia hoped would protect him from an attack. Anastasia was murdered in the barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel in 1957.

In this video, SBN news director Steve Lubetkin takes us inside the property for a look.

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Steve Lubetkin
Steve Lubetkin is the news director for StateBroadcastNews.com. Steve’s journalism background includes print and broadcast reporting for NJ news organizations. In May 2019, he began anchoring and reporting for the new weekly podcast, "The CRE News Hour," a news and features program focusing on the commercial real estate industry. From 2014 to 2019 he was New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com and filled in covering Chicago/Midwest and Atlanta. He has won numerous awards for his audio and video news reporting from the Garden State Journalists Association, and he has also been recognized for video by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has produced audio podcasts on CRE topics for the NAR Commercial Division and the CCIM Institute. Steve has also served (from August 2017 to March 2018) as national broadcast news correspondent for CEOReport.com, a news website focused on practical advice for senior executives in small- and medium-sized companies. Steve also reports on-camera and covers conferences for NJSpotlight.com, a public policy news coverage website focused on New Jersey government and industry; and for clients of StateBroadcastNews.com, a division of The Lubetkin Media Companies LLC. In March 2021, he was elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Steve has been the computer columnist for the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, since 1996. Steve is co-author, with Toronto-based podcasting pioneer Donna Papacosta, of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional. You can email Steve at steve@statebroadcastnews.com.