Carla Gambescia at the American Italian Heritage Museum
Our April Monthly Business Meeting and Cultural Presentation will take place on Thursday, April 11th at 7:00pm. The Presenter is Carla Gambescia, author of La Do/ce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z. She recently received the "best of the best" Silver Prize Winner from the North American Travel Journalists Asso...
Fire at Savarese Italian Pastry Shoppe injures four firefighters
A fire broke out inside a beloved Brooklyn bakery Tuesday, injuring four firefighters. According to the FDNY, at around 5 p.m. on March 26, a two-alarm fire occurred inside Savarese Italian Pastry Shoppe at the corner of 60th Street and New Utrecht Avenue. More than 100 firefighters were on the scene to put out flames at the three-story building. T...
Say “Buongiorno” to Donatus
A new exhibit featuring the work of Solofra (AV) native Donatus Buongiorno is set to debut this April in New York City. “The Art of Immigration” will be held from April 11 to May 11 at the Rectory Gallery of the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, 263 Mulberry Street. The exhibit will feature Buongiorno’s works, including pieces from private c...
La Scuola d'Italia's 2019 Benefit Gala
“Excellence in Education” was the main theme of La Scuola d’Italia’s 2019 Benefit Gala, a celebration held on March 8th, in New York, in the beautiful location of Cipriani Wall Street. Founded in 1977, La Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi is a private independent school recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Coopera...
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: How It Was Covered Through The Years
When the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire broke out on March 25, 1911, the Forward was on the scene. For days it dominated the news — 146 workers, mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant women perished in the fire, still known today as one of the worst industrial tragedies in America. The coverage was abundant in the aftermath, but it didn’t let it up...
L’On. Nissoli (FI) incontra, a New York, la neonata Associazione Italia Oggi Consultantants e, in New Jersey, l’ Associazione Italiana Ieri, Oggi, Domani
Continuano gli impegni dell’On. Nissoli tra le associazioni italiane in USA, in raccordo con il suo lavoro parlamentare, dopo aver presentato un Disegno di Legge per l’Associazionismo italiano nel mondo. Infatti, questo fine settimana l’On. Nissoli è stata a Long Island, nel cuore dello Stato di New York, per l’inaugurazione dell’Associazione Itali...
Lillian Perreca Papa, Italian bakery matriarch, dies at 93
Lilia "Lillian" Papa, daughter of the couple who founded Perreca's Bakery in Schenectady 1914, died Wednesday at the Ballston Lake home of her daughter, Maria. The matriarch of the Jay Street mainstay famed for its coal-fired, brick-oven Italian bread was 93. Born Lilia Perreca to Salvatore and Carmella DeRosa Perreca, Papa started working in her...
Anna Titone celebrates her 100th birthday with 100 family and friends
Anna Titone, of Annadale, celebrated her milestone 100th birthday on last month with an elegant party thrown by her three daughters, JoAnn, Geri and Andrea. The elegant soiree was held in Prive, Annadale, and was attended by 100 guests. Married to Thomas Titone for 53 years, the couple raised their three daughters in Bushwick, Brooklyn, before relo...
The Lung Block: A New York City Slum & Its Forgotten Italian Immigrant Community
In 1933, a lively Italian immigrant enclave on the Lower East Side was wiped from the map. Though this area was in many ways indistinguishable from the rest of the Lower East Side – a bustling, immigrant stronghold characterized by densely populated tenement buildings – since 1899, this particular block existed under the shadow of a sinister narrat...
A Western Destiny: Italians’ Great Arrival and Impact on the US
The early generation of Italian immigrants took their first steps on U.S. soil in a place that has now become a legend—Ellis Island. In the 1880s, they numbered 300,000; in the 1890s, 600,000; in the decade after that, more than two million. By 1920, when immigration began to taper off, more than 4 million Italians had come to the United States, an...
Triangle Fire Memorial Assn. To Hold Annual Memorial & Awards Reception
Vincent C. Maltese, chair of the Triangle Fire Memorial Association, announced the 2019 awardees will be honored at the 108th Anniversary Ceremony to be held on Monday, March 25th, at 6:30 pm, at the Paolucci CNL Center at Christ the King Campus, 68-02 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village (Door #10). The tribute remembers the 146 victims of the trag...
Joey Giambra
Buffalo News critic Jeff Simon once wrote: “Who is the most beloved person in the City of Buffalo, who is neither an athlete nor TV personality? As fast as the question came, so did the answer: Joey Giambra.” I have known Joey for nearly forty years and I agreed with Simon when he wrote: “Everyone who knows Joey tends to love the guy. At the very l...