THE FLY GIRL AND THE GANGSTA
The death of a drug kingpin brings back a memory of a piece never published
On October 31, around 3:30am on the corner of 147th Street and Frederick Douglas Boulevard in Harlem, Alberto Martinez, better known in the streets of New York and the mythology of hip hop as Alpo, was shot six times in the arm and once in the chest, while sitting in a red Dodge Ram SUV. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital where he was dead on arrival. Mar…