Danny Aiello Presents Check to Charity in Memory of his Son

The second floor of the Hoboken police department resembled a movie set on Friday morning, with actors Danny Aiello and Alex Corrado chatting and reminiscing about multiple movies, actors and the Hoboken of the past. 

Aiello and Corrado were in town to present the Lustgarten Foundation with a $5,000 check on Friday morning. The police department raised the money, which will be used for research in pancreatic cancer, said the organization's Director of Events Ann Walsh. 

Aiello—who has starred in more than 90 movies, including classics Moonstruck and Godfather II—said he was there to honor the memory of his son, who passed away due to pancreatic cancer. 

"I'm doing it for my son," Aiello said. Aiello said has also appeared in public service announcements to raise awareness. 

Aiello, who said he considers Hoboken his "second home" said he hadn't been in town for about a year before Friday morning. 

"It felt funny," he said, about returning to the Mile Square, "because I left for such an extended period of time."

Aiello's time in Hoboken reaches back to his many years of stand up on the second floor of as well as filming the 1991 movie Hudson Hawk in town. In 1986, when Aiello was in Hoboken, shooting Papa Only Wants the Best for You (in response to Madonna's Papa Don't Preach video), current police chief Anthony Falco—then a motorcycle cop—was Aiello's personal body guard.