Suozzi Receives Prestigious Guglielmo Marconi Award, the Order Sons & Daughters of Italy in America’s (OSDIA) Highest Honor
On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Long Island, Queens) received the prestigious Guglielmo Marconi Award, the Order Sons & Daughters of Italy in America’s (OSDIA) highest honor. The award is named for Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel prize-winning Italian physicist who invented wireless telegraphy. It is presented biennially to an...
Marzipan, mozzarella and music on Bensonhurst’s 18th Avenue
There’s a retail corridor where people know what the word latticini means, where the hot new store is an old movie theater and the most glamorous building you’ll see is a church from the 1820s. Welcome to 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, where the local shopping reflects residents’ Italian, Chinese and Polish heritages. The neighborhood’s annual Festa d...
Cuomo Says Anti-Italian Stereotypes ‘Hurt’ And ‘Scarred’ His Father
Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday in a radio interview addressed at length the heated exchange his brother Chris had with a man who called him “Fredo” — a reference to the film "The Godfather" he said was demeaning to people with Italian heritage. In the video, the CNN anchor says the label is an “aspersion” to Italians, a reference to a character fr...
Patchogue Italian Feast Of Saint Liberata: What You Need To Know
The 52nd annual Patchogue Italian Feast Of Saint Liberata will kick off on Saturday, Sept. 7 on Main Street. The event, which will begin at noon with the traditional procession starting in front of the Suffolk District Court, will include various festivities for all ages. The official ceremony will be held at 12:45 p.m. on the Four Corners. Guests...
1 Million People Will Pour Into NYC’s Little Italy During Feast of San Gennaro
We’re only a month away from the 93rd Annual Feast of San Gennaro, held every year in NYC’s historic Little Italy–the Lower Manhattan neighborhood that served as the first home for hundreds of thousands of Italian immigrants. The 11-day, 10-block Feast will step off on Sept. 12 along Mulberry Street, and more than 1 million people will descend on t...
Lagonia Named Grand Marshal of Yorktown Feast of San Gennaro
Every year since 2015, a procession down Commerce Street has signaled the start of the Yorktown Feast of San Gennaro, a now five-day Italian heritage festival with food, carnival rides, live music and a festive atmosphere. Hundreds participate in this yearly tradition, during which the statue of Saint Gennaro, on loan from New York City’s Most Prec...
For statues honoring women, NY first lady nixes vote-winner St. Frances, chooses drag queens
A mayor’s wife has rejected Saint Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini as a New York woman worthy of a public statue, choosing two men instead. Chirlane McCray, wife of New York’s Democrat mayor, Bill de Blasio, originally planned to honor women in her “She Built NYC” project, an endeavor meant to balance the male-to-female ratio of the city’s public stat...
Celebrating and honoring Italian heritage
The Canastota Italian Heritage Committee invites the public to the Italian-American Festival this Saturday to celebrate and honor Italian American culture. The celebration of Italian American culture will feature live local entertainment, Italian and American cuisine, historical displays and demonstrations, produce sales, local artisan booths offer...
Italian Americans pan Chris Cuomo’s ‘Fredo’ ethnic slur claim
Italian American New Yorkers weighed in Tuesday on Chris Cuomo’s claim that “Fredo” is an ethnic slur — and while they said it’s insulting, the agreement was that anyone who likens it to the N-word is stunad. “If anything, when we call somebody ‘Fredo’ it’s like [to say they’re] stupid,” said a worker at Bensonhurst bakery Villabate Alba, who gave...
Brooklyn Law School professor Joseph Crea dies at 104
Brooklyn Law School lost an icon this month when professor emeritus Joseph Crea died on Friday, Aug. 2 at the age of 104. Crea was well known in the Brooklyn legal community as a professor passionate about his students and an advocate for strong legal education. “News of the death of 104-years-young Joe Crea hit hard because he had lured us into th...
Thomas S. Gulotta, 75, Republican Who Led Nassau County, Dies
Thomas S. Gulotta, the former Republican Nassau County executive on Long Island whose political career ended with his government verging on bankruptcy and his party’s once impregnable machine poised to lose its grip on one of the nation’s wealthiest strongholds, died on Sunday in Oceanside, N.Y. He was 75. His death was announced by County Executiv...
Utica native reflects on life in the Navy
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo serves on the USS Gerald R. Ford, the newest aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, a ship longer than three football fields and the first in a new class of carriers. The Ford and other Navy vessels have carried the Utica native and 1991 Utica Senior Academy around the world. “I have been stationed in Virginia, Japan, H...