Aaron Meyerowitz, a.k.a., Danny Meyers, came to Newport, Kentucky, from Kansas City, Missouri, in 1945. He found work in casinos run by Jewish racketeers from Cleveland and New York who had muscled into Northern Kentucky’s vice economy. Meyerowitz blasted his way into Northern Kentucky mob history in 1946 when he took a job delivering payback for an ill-conceived Newport casino robbery.

Instead of getting a big payday for killing one of the robbers and wounding two other people, Meyerowitz ended up becoming a loose end and a liability. He made a run for Pittsburgh. There, within a day, another hitman tracked him down and took Meyerowitz for a ride. A man on his way to work found Meyerowitz’s body inside a parked car in a popular Pittsburgh park.

Meyerowitz’s brief life of crime is documented in a story published over at Cincy Jewfolk.

For more about other Pittsburgh “rides,” cruise on over to this 2025 Pittsburgh City Paper story.