By Noah Remnick

Just after 1 a.m. on July 28, Leonora Russo woke to a commotion at her home in Howard Beach, Queens. First came the yelps of her daughter's Chihuahua, then the crash of her front door slamming shut. By the time she reached her window, Ms. Russo saw only a black Dodge Dakota receding into the night.

At the wheel of the pickup truck was Ms. Russo's brother-in-law Gary Russo, an ironworker christened the Second Avenue Sinatra by the tabloids in 2011. Mr. Russo, who worked on the construction of the Second Avenue subway line, earned the nickname after he began performing lunch-hour recitals of pop classics with a velvet-smooth voice that drew in dozens of passers-by.

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