Beloved former Post paginator Dominick ‘Dom’ Marrano dies at 74

Dominick “Dom” Marrano, The Publish’s beloved former chief paginator identified for his good nature and “Brooklyn-basted wisdom,” died Sunday after an extended battle with lung most cancers and emphysema. He was 74.

Born and raised in Gravesend, Marrano made his bones on The Publish’s copy desk within the early Nineteen Seventies.

He toiled on the tabloid for almost 37 years earlier than he retired in 2008 to look after ailing spouse Janet, who died in 2012.

“He was essentially the most sincere, credible, high-integrity man I knew,” stated sports activities columnist Phil Mushnick, who met Marrano when he joined The Publish as a duplicate child in 1973.

On the time, Marrano was a part of what Mushnick referred to as “our inner mafia” of “Brooklyn Italian guys straight out of central casting.” A lot in order that Marrano as soon as auditioned for HBO’s “The Sopranos.”

“I appeared as much as him,” Mushnick stated, “I needed to be round Dom Marrano.”

The 2 as soon as spent hours outdoors the ring at Madison Sq. Backyard’s Felt Discussion board “dodging bottles” when a riot broke out after a boxing match within the ’70s.

“He was good,” Mushnick recalled. “He had an excellent perspective, a capability to boil issues down into only a few phrases … very concise, very entertaining and to the purpose.”

Marrano earned a status as a hard-working and fun-loving newspaperman and was additionally remembered by his quite a few mates as a sort and beneficiant mentor to youthful generations of reporters.

“He was an excellent man and a superb good friend,” former Publish paginator Richard “Rico” Rossiello stated. “He appeared out for folks.”

Childhood good friend Peter Tocco stated it was Marrano who acquired him his job at The Publish, the place he labored for about 40 years.

“We grew up on the paper,” he stated.

Whereas he didn’t have any youngsters himself, Marrano had a number of nieces and nephews and was “nice with everybody else’s kids,” Tocco stated.

“He my finest man, godfather to my first son … I trusted him with my life.”

Journalist Jerry Capeci stated Marrano and his spouse “served as an additional set of oldsters for my youngsters.

“Dom was a really particular man,” Capeci stated. “He was a superb newspaperman, an excellent good friend.”

Marrano, who liked the ocean and loved fishing, spent the final 12 years of his life in Lengthy Seaside, mates stated. He additionally had the journey bug, setting off on journeys to China and South Africa.

“The mark of the person was that he was a superb man,” Mushnick stated.

Family members can say their last goodbyes Tuesday from 4 to eight p.m. at Cusimano & Russo Funeral Residence in Brooklyn, the place a eulogy will likely be given at 6 p.m.

The household may have a non-public burial service Wednesday at Inexperienced-Wooden Cemetery in Brooklyn.