Una Serata Italiana con Furla (NY) on September 14
Thursday, September 14, 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Furla Fifth Avenue Store | 645 5th Avenue at 51st Street, New York, NY 10022. Free with advance RSVP — invite your friends! Join us for a wonderful evening with the National Organization of Italian American Women at Furla—the exclusive Italian luxury leather goods designer Fifth Avenue flagship store. Preview...
11 Favorite Italian Restaurants in NYC
You can’t visit New York City and not spend at least one of your meals in an authentic Italian restaurant. While the options can sometimes be overwhelming, the 11 Italian restaurants rounded up below will never let you down. From La Masseria to Villa Mosconi, enjoy some homemade pasta and vintage restaurant aesthetics at any one of these beloved es...
The unsolved murder of famous anarchist Carlo Tresca
The thing about Carlo Tresca was that he looked exactly like what a crazy bomb-throwing radical foreigner was supposed to look like: wild-bearded, wild-eyed, always passionately shaking his fist and thundering away about the oppressed workers. Actually, he was quite a genial fellow, unfailingly polite to the cops who started visiting him regularly...
Saratoga to host Italian-American Day Aug. 30
The New York Racing Association, Inc. will celebrate the culture and traditions of the Bel Pease during Italian-American Day at Saratoga Race Course on Wednesday, August 30. The day-long festivities will feature Italian music, dance, entertainment, crafts and food from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Berkshire Bank Saratoga Pavilion. The day's fifth race...
Da Silvano To Be Replaced By New Italian Restaurant
A new Italian restaurant is looking to replace Da Silvano, the longtime Greenwich Village staple that closed last year after 41 years serving the Village. The restaurant, run by its famous owner Silvano Marchetto, was as well known for its Italian dishes as its popularity among celebrities and New York's elite. Da Silvano was frequented by stars in...
La musica italiana in gara nella decima edizione del Festival di New York
Si chiama “New York canta” ed è arrivato già alla decima edizione il Festival della Musica Italiana a New York, in programma il prossimo 10 settembre nel Master Theater (Millennium) di Brooklyn. Una kermesse dedicata all’italian sound oltreoceano, promossa dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, che ha deciso di selez...
Italian Favorite Coco Pazzo Will Make a Comeback This Fall
Chroniclers of Italian food in New York City know Pino Luongo as an ambitious, irascible O.G. of Tuscan cuisine, having risen from the lowly rank of Da Silvano busboy to helm such late-20th-century hot spots as Il Cantinori, Sapore di Mare, Le Madri, and Mad.61 before succumbing to ill-fated business deals, crushing rents, and eventual bankruptcy....
La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West)
From Wednesday, September 06, 2017 to Tuesday, September 12, 2017. Entrance : With fee. Location: Center's Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York. Tickets available at: http://www.jazz.org/events/av-174103/ The New York Metropolitan Opera presents a new production of La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) written by Giacomo Pu...
Brooklyn Italians own lengthy soccer history in the Big Apple
Major League Soccer made a permanent home in the Big Apple just a few years ago. But on the lower levels of the sport, soccer has been a staple in Brooklyn for nearly seven decades. The Brooklyn Italians, currently of the lower-tier National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), were established shortly after World War II by a group of Italian immigrants....
How to Eat Well in Little Italy
Manhattan’s Little Italy is home to overpriced, wildly mediocre restaurants packed with nostalgic tourists twirling bites from heaping plates of spaghetti. Let’s face it: New Yorkers don’t really eat in today’s Little Italy, the stretch of Mulberry Street north of Canal and a smattering of Mott Street, dotted with restaurants where the red sauce ta...
That’s Italian! Mount Morris festival features new musical act
Felice Mucedula and Paolo Saltarello, strolling musicians from Auburn, added a distinctive flair to the Mount Morris Italian Festival last weekend. Mucedola is an accordionist. Saltarello provides vocals and plays mandolin. “That’s our repertoire, the old Italian-American songs that we do,” said Saltarello. “We just love to entertain.” The duo play...
Congratulations Bruno Codispoti, Grand Marshall of the 2017 Feast of Santa Rosalia
Congratulations to our dear friend Bruno Codispoti on your election as Grand Marshall for the 42nd Annual Feast of Santa Rosalia in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. What a terrific honor! From all of us at Il Regno, we wish you all the best. Evviva Santa Rosalia! The procession will start Sunday, August 27th at 3:00 PM by the outdoor chapel on 18th Avenue, a...