Former chief clerk of Brooklyn Surrogate’s Court Tony Caracciolo dies
Former Brooklyn attorney, Anthony “Tony” Caracciolo died on Friday at his home in Rahway, N.J., at the age of 90. Caracciolo was a longtime political aide, district leader and chief clerk of the Brooklyn Surrogate’s Court.
“I spoke to Tony last month and he sounded great,” said John O’Hara, a friend who served on the Park Slope community board with Caracciolo in the 1990s. “Even though I’m 57 now, he still called me ‘kid.’ We talked about the old days. Tony was known as a ‘regular’ Democrat. He believed in the neighborhood Democratic club was there to help local people who needed access to people in power. Tony was the guy who called a deputy commissioner to get a pothole filled or a park bench fixed.”
“I’ll miss him,” O’Hara said. “I’ll miss that people like him aren’t in politics anymore.”
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