Mary Sansone Gets a Corner on Henry by Joe Enright
A week before Christmas, when the New York sun is perpetually in your eyes, I was standing in a crowd at the corner of Henry & DeGraw Streets, an intersection that was about to be dedicated to the memory of Mary Crisalli Sansone. While we squinted into the distance waiting for Mayor DeBlasio to show up, it occurred to me that when Mary Sansone was...
IAP 216: Italians Swindled to New York with Special Guests Joe Tucciarone and Ben Lariccia
For many Italian American families, the story of an immigrant’s sacrifice usually begins in the years between 1880 and 1920, known as the Great Wave of Italian Immigration to the United States. But for 2,800 unfortunate souls, immigration to the “Land of Opportunity” came earlier, and at a much greater cost. Between late 1872 and early 1873, thousa...
Ancient treasures from Italy: An Exhibition of Antiquities
Open from January 14 to February 25, 2022. ONLY ON FRIDAY from 2:30PM to 4:30PM. Consulate General of Italy, 690 Park Avenue, NY & Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, NY. Entrance to the exhibit through the Consulate General of Italy. Reservation Mandatory to: cg.newyork@esteri.it indicating your preferred time slot (2:30PM-3:00PM; 3:00PM-...
Six Popes: A Son Of The Church Remembers An Evening with Monsignor Hilary Franco Thursday, January 27, 6 PM
Join us on January 27 at 6pm for an evening with Monsignor Hilary Franco as he discusses his deeply moving spiritual memoir, Six Popes: A Son Of The Church Remembers. RSVP Here. The event is $35 per person and includes a copy of the book that will be discussed that evening. Columbus Citizens Foundation Members wishing to dine in the Taverna followi...
Louis DeLuca: A Staten Island educator who influenced countless young lives. He has died at 88.
Louis DeLuca was the guy everyone knew and who knew everyone. A great connection with endless resources at his fingertips. When a staffing shortage created long lines at the Staten Island Zoo on a recent afternoon, executive director Ken Mitchell knew who to call. “Get Lou on the phone.” Within hours, a half-dozen eager teens from United Activities...
Exhibition: Staging Injustice. Italian Art. 1880–1917 January 25–June 18 2022
Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) 421 Broome Street, 4th floor, Manhattan. Contact: 646 370 3596. For its 2022 season, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present a group show focusing on the Italian artistic production during the decades between 1880 and the end of World War I. The extraordinary and painful circumstances that marked 2...
Reviving the legacy of 'Christ in Concrete,' Pietro di Donato's bestseller
Richard di Donato cannot bear to visit his childhood home, a Cape Cod that sits in Strongs Neck, a peninsula on Long Island’s North Shore tucked just below the Sound. Three miles north of Stony Brook University, the hamlet is named for Anna Strong, part of the Culper Spy Ring during the Revolutionary War. And it’s where, centuries later, Richard’s...
Celebrating the Neapolitan Presepio at IIC NY
Wednesday, January 12, 2022. From 6:00 pm To 7:30 pm. Location: IIC NY - 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021. Organized by IIC NY in collaboration with Casa Belvedere. Free entrance. Book Now here. A Christmas Tradition in the Italian American Community. A lecture by Anita Sanseverino & Lou Barrella This lecture and video presentation explores the ori...
A Nice Italian Neighborhood in Queens
Howard Beach is one of the only Italian American neighborhoods left in New York City. Located in the southern portion of Queens, half of the population is Italian or of Italian descent. In fact, hundreds of locals showed off their Italian pride in response to Italy’s win in the European soccer championship in 2021. After Italy pulled off the victor...
Alessandro Crocco is the new President of the Comites New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
During a meeting held at the Consulate General of Italy in New York, the new members of the Comites in the presence of the Consul General of Italy Fabrizio Di Michele, elected Predident Alessandro Crocco, 35 years old, of White Plains, New York. The new President immediately addressed the assembly, thanked everyone for having participated in the f...
Firefighters line Staten Island street for funeral of FDNY Lieutenant Joseph Maiello
Hundreds of firefighters lined a street in Westerleigh as a procession carrying the coffin of Joseph Maiello arrived at Holy Family Roman Catholic Church. The 53-year-old was discovered unconscious while on duty at his firehouse, Engine 163 and Ladder 83 on Staten Island, on Sunday. FDNY-Uniformed Fire Officers Association President Lt. James McCar...
Millions of Americans can trace their ancestry back to tenements like this one
In the middle of the 19th century, hundreds of thousands of new Americans flooded into New York. They found homes in buildings like this one, on Orchard Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where the population density in some neighborhoods approached nearly a quarter-million people per square mile by the mid 1860s. Architecturally, 97 Orchard St...