Syracuse Mayor Must Leave Columbus Statue Per Court Order
The National Columbus Education Foundation (NCEF) is pleased with the New York Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the Syracuse Columbus statue remaining in downtown Syracuse. On Friday, March 11, Judge Gerard Neri of the New York Supreme Court handed down a ruling declaring the city of Syracuse entered a covenant in 1990 to maintain the monument wh...
The Rehabilitation of Lucrezia Borgia. An in-person and virtual event Presented by Anita Sanseverino
Tuesday, March 29 at 7 pm ET. Casa Belvedere, The Italian Cultural Foundation | 79 Howard Ave., Staten Island, NY 10301. Register for in-person here. Register for virtual here. Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) was fortunate or unfortunate (depending on how you look at it) to be born into the powerful Borgia family, whose patriarch became Pope Alexander...
Project Archivist Position at Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College Archives and Special Collections seeks an archivist fluent in Italian for a part-time, temporary position to process manuscript collections. The collections are related to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in the 1930s. The collections to be processed include both documents and photographs. The processing includes the creation of fi...
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul Announces $1 Million In Funding For Italian American Museum. Money Will Help Museum Complete Its New Building in Little Italy
New York Sate Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) today announced the state will award the Italian American Museum $1 million in funding to help the museum complete construction of its new headquarters at 151 Mulberry Street in historic Little Italy. "Whether in government, business, public safety or in the arts, Italian Americans have been integral in bu...
San Gennaro: A Gastronomic Celebration of Immigrant Foods
On a warm, sunny September afternoon years ago, I was learning to shoot film on a vintage 35mm Minolta camera. I stumbled across New York City’s San Gennaro festival. The bright colors and motley foods provided a spectacular palette for experimenting. San Gennaro titillates a full spectrum of senses, but none more than taste, a triumph of gastronom...
Lake Erie Italian Club celebrates St. Joseph's Day
The Lake Erie Italian Club celebrated St. Joseph's Day on Sunday. For the special occasion, the club presented a special St. Joseph's Day table at the popular destination. It was filled with all kinds of Italian food made by Anything's Pastable, The Grotto Restaurant, and Ilio di Paolo's. The Lake Erie Italian Club is also accepting donations to ra...
Talking to the Girls. Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Wednesday, 03/23/2022 - 6:00pm. Organized by Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. Book Presentation on Zoom. In order to participate, RSVP here and you will receive an e-mail with your Zoom link by 12pm on March 23. If you don't receive the e-mail by then, contact us at casa.italiana@nyu.edu Talking to the Girls. Intimate and Political Essays on the Tria...
Little Italy cut out of $20 million NY state grant for Chinatown
Little Italy merchants are screaming “Mi offendo!” after learning Gov. Kathy Hochul awarded a $20 million economic and tourism grant to their Chinatown neighbors, The Post has learned. Civil leaders in Little Italy said they weren’t even asked to jointly apply for the state grant even though their businesses suffered alongside Chinatown’s during th...
Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh can’t remove downtown Christopher Columbus statue, judge rules
The statue of Christopher Columbus in downtown Syracuse must stay where it is, a judge ruled today. State Supreme Court Judge Gerard Neri ordered Syracuse and Mayor Ben Walsh not to remove the statue as Walsh had planned. The Columbus Monument Corp. and other supporters of the statue sued in May, hoping to stop the city from removing the statue in...
Family celebrates matriarch's 108 years of life and learning
Not many of us can say we’ve had "happy birthday" sang to us 108 times, but Margaret Ricciardi can. "I am 108 and I think I've tried everything," said Ricciardi, surrounded by five generations of loving family. "To think they all came, no matter the distance, for my special birthday." In fact, she has eight grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren an...
Visions of Dante
Tuesday, March 22 at 7 pm. Visions of Dante. A virtual program led by Carla Gambescia. Register here: zoom link will be sent before the program. Organized by Casa Belvedere, The Italian Cultural Foundation. Dante Alighieri is perhaps the greatest poet to have ever lived, and his La Divina Commedia is universally considered one of the very finest wo...
Documented Italians: Dear Sirs (2021)
Tuesday March 22, 2022. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor. New York, N.Y. 10036. Dear Sirs (2021), 93 minutes. Filmmaker Mark Pedri had never heard his grandfather Silvio’s story, despite spending nearly every day with him for ten years. It wasn’t until after Silvio’s death that Mark...