Robert's Lounge was a saloon in New York City owned by Lucchese crime family associate James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke. It was located at 114-45 Lefferts Boulevard in South Ozone Park, Queens, near the John F. Kennedy International Airport Air Cargo Center.
The saloon served as a mob headquarters from 1957 until early 1979. The saloon was long used as an informal headquarters by Paul Vario, whom The New York Times described as "a capo in the Antonio "Tony Ducks" Corallo crime family." The robbery of Lufthansa's secure freight storage at the Air Cargo Center on December 11, 1978, had its genesis in the lounge when Lufthansa freight supervisor Louis Werner described to the assembled mob-connected customers how a fortune in valuable freight could be stolen despite Lufthansa's security, described as "impregnable". An estimated $5 million in currency and $875,000 in jewels were stolen in that robbery, described at the time as the "largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil."
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