Brooklyn Pizzeria Roberta's to Open Design District Pop-Up
In the past six months, two sought-after New York-based pizzerias set up shop in Miami. Pizza Tropical opened at Gramps in Wynwood, and Artichoke Basille's took over the kitchen at Ricky's in South Beach. Now, Roberta's, a popular Brooklyn restaurant and pizza joint based in Bushwick, will open a pop-up shop in the Design District this October. Loc...
Saint Liberata and bocce ball
As summer fades, it becomes time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the traditional Patchogue Italian Feast of Saint Liberata. (The namesake of the festival is the patron saint of the village of Pizzone, Italy.) This year’s event will be hosted along Main Street in Patchogue Village on Saturday, Sept. 16, with a rain date of Saturday, Sept. 23. P...
Pastabilities: Creative, comforting Italian food in Armory Square (Dining Out Review)
Spicy hot tomato oil. That was all we knew about Pastabilities before our recent Wednesday evening visit, but it was enough to make us look forward to dinner there. A friend had given us a jar of the restaurant's invention two years before, and it was everything we love about Italian food: deeply flavorful, spicy, rich and versatile. We only hoped...
Families gather for St. Rocco’s Italian Festival in Holley
A small crowd gathers at the bocce ball area, watching teams throw the balls down the dirt field. Nearby, an announcer calls forward teams as games are won and lost. Underneath some tents, people exchange tickets for some homemade Italian food as families gather for the annual St. Rocco’s Italian Festival. “We have bocce ball players coming in from...
New pasta places in NYC: Where to get your fettuccine fix at affordable prices
New York City is having an Italian moment — and it’s not of the red-sauce variety. Trendy new pasta concepts have been popping up in recent months, bringing affordable, fresh fare to NYC diners looking for their fettuccine fix. “I think it’s great all these places are opening,” said chef Ali LaRaia, co-founder of the fast-casual Italian spot The So...
Scrutiny of Columbus leaves many with ‘agita’
Longtime Bronx Columbus Day Parade organizer Tony Signorile said when he arrived in America with his family in 1961, the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Square was the second one he visited, after the Statue of Liberty. “What I learned both here and in Italy, was he was a voyager - he sailed from Italy to Spain with no money, got money f...
Cecilia Bartoli, Last Seen With a Beard, May Return to New York
It has been nearly a decade since the beloved Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli last sang in New York. David Letterman, Jon Stewart and others have been known to grow beards when they’ve left the city’s limelight. But the whiskers Ms. Bartoli was sporting recently weren’t quite of that variety. She had instead taken on some startlingly convinci...
Petition: Leave statues alone, leave existing names the same, ignore the cynical mob
The existence of statues, monuments and public displays in Buffalo should not be governed by the whims of an angry mob fueled by delusions of "correcting" history or society. The city of Buffalo, and Western New York as a whole, has many more important issues that are completely unrelated to the names of city parks or any public monuments. History...
Cristoforo Colombo è un’eredità fondamentale
LA COLUMBUS Citizens Foundation si impegna a preservare il monumento di Cristoforo Colombo a Columbus Circle. Attraverso gli anni, il Columbus Day e il monumento di Cristoforo Colombo hanno avuto un ruolo fondamentale nell'accettazione prima e nella celebrazione poi della cultura italiana a New York ed in tutti gli Stati Uniti. La statua stessa fu...
This traditional Italian eatery is taking over New York
Bakeries wouldn’t seem the obvious place for one-percenters to spend their dough. But Sant Ambroeus is not your average bake shop. Founded in Milan back in 1936, the traditional Italian eatery has spread across tonier tri-state ’hoods — Southampton, SoHo, Madison Ave. — to become the pastaria and pasticceria of choice for major fashion, media and m...
Christopher Columbus Day Recognition Dinner 2017
Dear Friends and Neighbors: C.I.A.O. is planning a recognition dinner on Sunday, October 8, 2017 at the Springside Inn, Auburn, New York. The date is in conjunction with the Christopher Columbus Day celebration. The dinner wll honor long time educator and community leader, Jeanne Hogan. Mrs.Hogan has been a dedicated mother to her twelve children a...
Celebrity restaurateur to open 'wood fire' eatery in Urby
The man behind PBS's "Eat! Drink! Italy! with Vic Rallo" wanted to bring something new and different to Staten Island -- an eatery that cooks all its food over a wood-fired hearth. Victor Rallo, a well-known New Jersey restaurateur, said he will open Surf Restaurant in Urby -- the 900-unit development on Stapleton's waterfront -- by next month. "Th...