Actor and longtime Park Slope resident Steve Buscemi gets ‘key to the city’
Brooklyn-born actor Steve Buscemi is the latest celebrity to have gotten the “key to the city” from Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Buscemi, who has lived in Park Slope for decades, is probably best known for his role in television’s “Boardwalk Empire” of Nucky Thompson, corrupt political boss of Prohibition-era Atlantic City. The character is based on Enoch “Nucky” Johnson, who served as sheriff of the town while rubbing shoulders with bootleggers and big-time mobsters.
He also started in “Reservoir Dogs” as well as six films by the Coen Brothers: “Miller’s Crossing,” “Barton Fink,” “The Hudsucker Proxy,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “Paris, Je T’aime.” Other television shows he appeared in include “The Sopranos,” “30 Rock” and “Portlandia.”