Benjamin Levinsky (1893 – December 5, 1922) was an American gang leader, labor racketeer and organized crime figure.
Spending almost twenty years in and out of reformatories and prisons, Levinsky had a lengthy criminal record prior to the start of Prohibition.
He was caught pickpocketing five years later and was imprisoned on a variety of charges over the next decade including petty theft, grand larceny, felonious assault and vagrancy.
[2] On the morning of December 5, 1922, Levinsky was shot and killed by Lipshitz [2] while entering a Broadway loft building where he was employed as a cutter for the Levinson Brothers.
He had driven to work in a taxi with Benjamin Massauer, an ex-convict who had spent the night at his home, and who had told the driver to stop the cab when two shots were heard shortly after Levinsky entered the building.