The 10th Annual Little Italy StreetFest
Saturday, September 12, 12/21 - The Annual Little Italy StreetFest - Union St at N Jay St, Schenectady Whose ready for the 10th Annual Little Italy StreetFest? This year we have a lot in store for you! ~~Street Businesses Participating: The following businesses will be pumping out their key dishes and services th...
Hip at 91, Dongan Hills resident is even social media savvy
By Carol Ann Benanti Rab's Country Lanes in Dongan Hills provided the perfect setting for Mary Lindeman's 91st birthday part, a festive event replete with kinfolk and friends — and even nonagenarian friends. It all made perfect sense. According to her family, bowling had always been one of Mary's favorite past times, inasmuch as...
Lecture: The Italians of Staten Island
October 30(Sunday) 2:00 pm. Lecture: The Italians of Staten Island. A presentation by Patricia Salmon,a retired curator of history from the Staten Island Museum. She has authored the books: Realms of History: The Cemeteries of Staten Island, The Staten Island Ferry, A History, Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island and Murderers and Mysteri...
Visions of Little Italy: John Rossi ospite dell'Italian American Museum
Appuntamento il 6 settembre prossimo all'Italian American Museum, New York, con il seminario e la presentazione del fotografo John Rossi "Visions of Little Italy". John Rossi è cugino di Ernesto Rossi, proprietario di E. Rossi & Co. al 193 di Grand Street. La famiglia Rossi è da sempre un pilastro della Little Italy, sin dai primi anni del XXm...
Il ministro Ornaghi incontra la stampa al Consolato Generale. "La cultura unisce i popoli"
NEW YORK. Il ministro per i Beni e le Attività culturali Lorenzo Ornaghi, venerdì sera prima di iniziare l'incontro con la stampa al Consolato Generale di Park Avenue, ha detto "credo sia doveroso esprimere il nostro cordoglio" riferendosi al massacro consumato nella scuola del Connecticut in mattinata.Il ministro ha partecipato all'apertura della...
Tiro a segno all'Italian American Museum
L'Italian American Museum annuncia che in occasione del Carnevale 2013 si terrà il 9 febbraio alle 19.30 presso la sede newyorchese del museo un appuntamento di Tiro A Segno, con musica ed eventi enogastronomici. La serata sarà in maschera con accompagnamenti musicali dei maggiori musicisti di New York e performance di un gruppo della Comm...
Italian pride on show in Howard Beach
For the first time since 2011 the Howard Beach Columbus Day Parade marched down Cross Bay Boulevard on Sunday.A steady stream of red, white and green enveloped the boulevard, along with the sounds of marching bands from local high schools and Franklin K. Lane High School's JROTC troop. Neighborhood schoolchildren from St. Helen and PS 207 joined th...
IAWA’s Open Reading Series – August 9, 2014 – Featuring Michael Cirelli & Camilla Trinchieri
Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its literary series every second Saturday of the month. IAWA East is held even months at Sidewalk Café (Oct, Dec) and IAWA West continues at Cornelia Street Café on odd months (Sept, Nov.) Michael Cirelli is the Executive Director of Urban Word NYC, one of the nation's largest youth liter...
Miss Columbus named for 2014 parade
Gianna Bianco, a 17-year-old Pelham Parkway resident and senior at Maria Regina High School, has been named Miss Columbus for the 38th annual Bronx Columbus Day Parade. Bianco grew up attending the parade each year, and said she always looked up to Miss Columbus as a model Italian-American girl. She was excited to learn she was eligible th...
Nicholas Corrado, 90
Nicholas A. Corrado, 90, of New Dorp, a retired deputy commissioner for the city Department of Real Property and adjunct professor, a World War II veteran and family man, died Sunday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he moved to New Dorp in 1969. Mr. Corrado served in the in the U.S. Army for...
DennyDolls (c) come to the Garibaldi Meucci Museum!
Opening, Saturday, April 11, 2015, 2 p.m. : Denny PizziniDenny Pizzini, who has lived on Staten Island for more than 50 years and is retired from his catalog printing business for some 20 years, is a well known artist in the borough. Among his exquisite collection are his signed edition "dennydolls"© sculptures, that he started creating in the earl...
Italian culture, cuisine and cars rev up Casa Belvedere
by Rob Bailey Want to help jumpstart Staten Island's Italian Cultural Foundation? The weekend of Sept. 26-27, atop picturesque Grymes Hill, the landmark mansion known as Casa Belvedere presents Motori D'Italia — an Italian car show — a major highlight of its annual Festa D'Italia benefit. Proceeds from "all facets of this sig...