Every three weeks or so, Bill de Blasio makes a stop in the East Village, where for $16 he gets a lesson in Italian, an update on Italian politics, and a haircut — long on top, short on the sides. "His hair, I can cut him in 10 minutes, but we talk — a little of this, little of that — until it goes over half an hour," said Alberto Amore, the Democratic mayoral front-runner's barber of about five years.

Earlier this week, de Blasio dropped by for a final trim before Tuesday's election. The two men chatted in Italian for nearly an hour, with Amore showing de Blasio how the Italian newspaper, Le Repubblica, has chronicled the mayoral race. "Alberto is my Italian professor ... plus, he has the latest Italian newspapers," said de Blasio, whose maternal relatives are from Italy.

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