The “Italic” woman artist behind the Angel of Central Park and the Columbus statue in Brooklyn
Tuesday Octber 22 at 6PM. Columbus Citizens Foundation 8 East 69th Street, NYC. Very few people know that two important monuments in New York City were created in Rome by New Yorker Emma Stebbins, the 19th century designer of Angel of the Waters at Bethesda Foundation in Central Park and Christopher Columbus, the statue adjacent to the New York Sta...
Savor Italy’s Finest: Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO Shines at NYC Wine & Food Festival
Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO, one of Italy’s finest cured hams, takes the spotlight at this year’s NYC Wine & Food Festival. Thanks to the European co-funded project “The EU Gem Ham”, Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO will offer festival-goers a chance to savor centuries of Italian tradition at the Grand Tasting Pavilion from October 18th to 20th, and at an...
The Italian American Heritage Society of LI to host one-year anniversary bash
It’s Italian Heritage Month. There is no better time to hold an event honoring Italian heritage in our region. It’s precisely why we formed the Italian American Heritage Society of Long Island – (ITALI). The more we unite as a heritage group, the more we can honor the past and inspire the future. None of this is groundbreaking or innovative. I car...
Ferraro Foods Acquires Botticelli Food Service, Expanding Reach and Strengthening Market Position in the Tri-State Region and Beyond
Ferraro Foods, a leading distributor of Italian specialty food products, is excited to announce the acquisition of Botticelli Food Service, the distribution arm of Botticelli Foods, a family-owned importer of high-quality Italian ingredients. The deal further solidifies Ferraro Foods’ leadership in supplying pizzerias and restaurants across the tri...
A new Italian American Museum is coming soon to Little Italy
A new museum celebrating Italian-American heritage will open in Little Italy next week on the annual holiday celebrating the green, white and red. The Italian American Museum will open to the public on Monday, Oct. 14, the Columbus Day holiday, at 151 Mulberry St. It will house three exhibitions that celebrate Italy and Italian-American culture. Th...
Binghamton’s annual Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival
The City of Binghamton (NY) is gearing up for the upcoming long weekend with a tradition that’s lasted over six decades. This Monday is Binghamton’s Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival, to take place in Downtown Binghamton, beginning at 9 a.m. with the raising of the Italian flag outside of city hall. The grand Marshall this year is the former...
Celebrating Columbus Day in Queens, NY
Since 1937, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day a federal holiday, every year we have been commemorating Christopher Columbus making landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492. This year the celebration falls on Monday, October 14, in recognition of Columbus’ – and Europe’s – discovery of the entire other half of the w...
Historic NYC St. Frances Cabrini Shrine vandalized
The historic St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in Manhattan was vandalized over the weekend, with offensive graffiti and symbols defacing a church wall and a statue of the saint, according to police reports on October 8. The attack was discovered on October 6, and involved a profanity directed at Jesus and “several bizarre symbols” scrawled in black spray...
What this weekend’s Italian Festival will look like at The Mount
By day, the stone-faced building to which some refer as Mission of the Immaculate Virgin presents a scenic backdrop to the annual Italian Festival at Mount Loretto. Come dusk under spotlights, the church glows red and green for a further reminder of the Columbus Day weekend, or as it is also know -- Indigenous People’s Day. This year’s Italian Fes...
“Siena: the rise of painting, 1300-1350” exhibition inaugurated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York inaugurated yesterday, October 8th, the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Sienese art of the 14th century, titled “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350.” The exhibition, which will run from October 13 until January 26, 2025, will feature over one hundred works, including paintings,...
High-End Italian Restaurant, Adria, Makes Its Way to Second Avenue
Flavors of the sea seep into the large, fluffy tubes of pasta and the bright red sauce of the lobster paccheri at Adria, an Italian restaurant that recently opened at 1556 Second Avenue (between 80th and 81st streets). Replacing Gray Hawk Grill, an American diner that delighted customers for four years, Adria joins Aunt Jake’s, San Matteo, and La P...
FALL 2024 - Antologia del cinema Italiano: Anthology of Italian Cinema - 4 Part Series
When: Oct 24, 2024, 6:30 PM - Where: Westchester Italian Cultural Center, 1 Generoso Pope Pl, Tuckahoe, NY 10707, USA *This is a 4 part Italian Film Study Course (October 24, November 7, November 21, December 5). Registration fee includes all four films/classes, Tasting of regional foods, wine and coffee. Classes MAY NOT be purchased separately. I...