By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — The notorious former headquarters for Greenwich Village gangsters has moved out of the crime business — to reopen as a flower and tea shop, the New York Post reported.
The former Triangle Social Club at 208 Sullivan Street, which served as a meeting place for members of the Genovese crime family including Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, is now the Sullivan Street Tea and Spice Company, the Post reported.
With its blacked-out windows and hole-in-the-wall ambience, the Triangle Social Club served as Gigante's home base, the paper reported.
Gigante died in prison in 2005 while serving time on a racketeering charge.
The flower shop, which sells specialty teas and herbs, opened on Sullivan Street three months ago, the Post reported.
Neighbors told the paper that, for better or worse, the Triangle Social Club was a very unique part of New York history and its patrons would be missed.
"It was authentic New York," Michele Angerosi, 45, who lives above the shop, told the paper.
"One day all the guys were inside talking. Then the next day it turned into a flower shop," Angerosi said. "I guess most of them got pinched."
