A comparison of Christmas lights: Bay Ridge & Dyker
For neighborhoods within the five boroughs, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights have long been beautiful neighborhoods with rich colonial history and many gorgeous homes on larger plots of land . Dyker, having been a hidden gem for decades, is now world-renowned for the cluster of mansions with the most tantalizing Christmas decorations and lights each yea...
FIAO spreads Christmas cheer with party at Il Centro
Lucky children got to see Santa Claus in person at a recent holiday party hosted by the Federation of Italian American Organizations at the organization’s community center, Il Centro. It was an afternoon filled with fun and laughter as Santa Claus happily posed for pictures with smiling children in the spacious community room at Il Centro, 8711 18t...
85-year-old man builds detailed nativity scene to honor his departed wife who loved Christmas
Osvaldo Riccio began the work when Christmas was still months away. Hour after hour, day after day, he carefully built, painted and arranged the models and figurines. He would work from morning into the afternoon, until the day when he decided, finally, that it was done. Osvaldo built a presepe, a nativity scene. He built it for Pupa, his wife. Osv...
Comunicato per candidature Console onorario in Buffalo, Stato di New York
Si rende noto che il Consolato Generale di New York intende procedere alla nomina del Console onorario da porre a capo del Consolato onorario con competenza per Buffalo, Stato di New York. Il Console onorario, che opererà sulla base delle istruzioni fornite dal Consolato Generale di I classe di New York, sarà chiamato a svolgere funzioni di assiste...
Embracing Mexican traditions in a church founded for Italian immigrants
Call it an American melting pot – or posole, a traditional Mexican soup, or cioppino, an Italian fisherman’s stew – Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx welcomes worshippers from more than a dozen nations. “You have people from almost every country living here: from Albania, Nigeria, Latin America,” said Rev. Fr....
A Lasting Arts Legacy
Dinaw Mengestu, the well-known Ethiopian-American novelist and writer, would regularly walk past the Bernie Wohl Center of the Goddard Riverside Community Center at 647 Columbus Avenue. In 2015, Goddard Riverside was one of the recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Community Big Read awards and selected Mengesteu’s novel, "Beautif...
How 3 Generations Of One Italian-American Family Are Reconceiving Tradition
There’s an old Italian proverb that rings particularly true during the holiday season: A tavola non si invecchia (“No one grows old at the dinner table”). It’s a testament to the enlivening effect of a delicious meal eaten while surrounded by friends and family — and it’s a sentiment that Tiziana Alesci knows all too well. As an Italian immigrant a...
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone endorses Bloomberg for president
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced Monday that he is endorsing Michael Bloomberg in his campaign for president in 2020. Bellone becomes the first county executive in New York to endorse the billionaire businessman and former three-term mayor of New York City. “I am proud to endorse Mike Bloomberg for president because our country need...
Rochester: Console onorario cercasi
Il Consolato Generale di New York ha avviato le selezioni per la nomina di un Console onorario a Rochester, Stato di New York. Il Console onorario, che opererà sulla base delle istruzioni fornite dal Consolato Generale di New York, sarà chiamato a svolgere funzioni di assistenza dei connazionali e tutela degli interessi italiani nel territorio di c...
The Bronx’s Little Italy Announces Launch of Winter Restaurant Week in 2020
NYC’s Belmont Business Improvement District (BID) has announced the launch of their inaugural Little Italy in the Bronx Winter Restaurant Week, starting Monday, February 3 to Thursday, February 13, 2020. Diners will be able to enjoy a three-course prix-fixe lunch for $20 and a three-course prix-fixe dinner for $30 excluding gratuity, tax, and alcoh...
Stanley Tucci on his childhood Christmases in New York
Each year as the days grow shorter in England, where I have now made my home, I cannot help but miss the winters of my childhood, appallingly more than a half a century ago, in upper Westchester New York. Our home on a cul-de-sac at the top of a hill was surrounded by trees, which by early December were almost always laden with snow. The ponds and...
Brusciano – New York: Phil Bruno is # 1 Chief Paranza of Giglio in East Harlem 2020
The Giglio Society of East Harlem in New York announced via social media from the FB East Harlem Giglio page and from its website the investiture of Phil Bruno. Bruscianese family Italian-American, at ” # 1 Capo Paranza” for the Lily Festival of East Harlem 2020 ” The Giglio Society of East Harlem would like to announce the # 1 Chief Paranza for 20...