Nicholas James Maschuci, 60, disappeared from his Kearny, New Jersey home on a day in the mid-1970s after saying he was going to a business meeting in Brooklyn. A businessman with interests in restaurants and nightclubs, he was described as a sharp dresser and wore a white polyester ribbed shirt with a zipper, gray bell-bottom pants and white patent leather boots that day. He also wore a white gold watch with a black face, a silver Blessed Mother medal and a white gold pinky ring set with a large diamond, and had a glass right eye.

Maschuci left driving a white 1974 Mercury Grand Marquis borrowed from a Union City dealership and told his son to meet him at a diner in North Arlington later that evening; he never arrived. Several days later the Mercury was found abandoned on a Manhattan street, reportedly wiped clean. Reports say he had once been a union president for the International Longshoremen’s Association and had received threats during that period. The Kearny Police Department has not named any suspects and the circumstances after he left for Brooklyn remain unknown.

Does anyone have memories or information about Maschuci, the car, or that meeting in Brooklyn?