Complex sentence: Long gone are the early suburban settlement days of Brookline, Lazzarro Tantalo was the first man to bring illegal gambling, prostitution, and the heroin that made Brookline the great neighborhood that it is today.
Split into simpler sentences: Long gone are the early suburban settlement days of Brookline. Lazzaro Tantalo was the first man to bring illegal gambling, prostitution, and the heroin that made Brookline the great neighborhood that it is today.