Former North Park Branch Library to become Italian American Cultural Center
The once vibrant brick building at the corner of Delaware and Hertel avenues, once the home of the North Park Branch Library, has been vacant for almost 10 years. But now, the Centro Culturale Italiano di Buffalo plans to give it new life by transforming it into an Italian American Cultural Center. “This is a monumental moment in the history of the...
Making and eating Neapolitan pies at Kesté Pizza
Pizza is a family affair for Roberto Caporuscio and daughter Giorgia Caporuscio. Roberto is a pizzaiolo, Italian for master pizza maker. Giorgia is a pizzaiola, a female master pizza maker -- one of the few in the United States. Together, they run Kesté Pizza, a place where you can order a delicious pie or learn how to make one yourself. Kesté Pizz...
Experience key for Mt. Carmel festa
Jeane Marchitto of Rotterdam can never miss the annual summer party at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Schenectady. "It's like a magnet, it just draws you every year," said Marchitto, who at 90-plus has volunteered at the festa for decades. "It's something you want to do." Parishioners and friends of the church on Pleasant Street, in the city's Mo...
Stefania Bortolami on How Smaller Galleries Can Innovate to Survive the Age of the Mega-Gallery
In an industry that is notoriously slow to innovate, Stefania Bortolami isn’t resting on her laurels. In the shadow of international mega-galleries, the Italian-born gallerist is carving out a innovative niche for herself with her new gallery space in Manhattan’s Tribeca, where she fosters an engaging program of promising emerging and established m...
Longest Running Italian Feast Takes Over Verplanck This Week
It’s unique, it’s a tradition, and it’s back this week in the hamlet of Verplanck for five days for the 95th year. Starting on Wednesday, July 12 and running through Sunday, July 16, Eighth Street will be the place to be for the annual Our Lady of Mount Carmel Italian Feast, the longest running feast in the Hudson Valley. The free admission event o...
Archdiocese agrees to sell Little Italy church for $7.3M
The Archdiocese of New York is selling a Little Italy church for $7.3 million, new court documents reveal. The archdiocese filed paperwork in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday showing its agreement with the Urban Standard development company to sell the Church of the Most Holy Crucifix, at 378 Broome St. between Mott and Mulberry Sts. A judge must...
Tues. July 18th @ 7:00 PM, Join Us for 'Giovanni Battista Moroni: Albino's Master Portrait Painter' at Casa Belvedere
Giovanni Battista Moroni (ca. 1523-1579) is known among cognoscenti of Renaissance painting, but is relatively little-known compared to such masters as Titian and Raphael. He was born to a master mason in Albino, outside of Bergamo, which was then part of the Venetian Republic. He entered Moretto Da Brescia's (Allesandro Bonvicino) studio, and cont...
Padre Walter Tonelotto, protettore degli immigrati a New York
La Chiesa della Madonna di Pompei situata nel cuore del Greenwich Village di New York rimane dopo oltre un secolo (fu costruita nel 1892) il fulcro della vita religiosa per i cattolici Italiani di Manhattan. Da circa un anno alla guida della Chiesa è Padre Walter Tonelotto, Scalabriniano, originario di Sant’Eulalia di Borso del Grappa, da ben quara...
Eataly Downtown Opens Take Out Ravioli Bar
Eataly's first-ever all-ravioli concept has debuted at the Italian megastore's newest New York City location in the Financial District. I Ravioli, a ravioli takeout counter in Eataly's second Manhattan store offers three types of ravioli to scarf down during your lunch break or take back to your desk for an Italian-style feast under $15. While peak...
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Giglio Feast Rises Once Again
Every summer, thousands of New Yorkers flock to Brooklyn and witness the lifting of the Giglio: a 4-ton, 72-foot statue that is carried through the crowd by 150 men. There’s nothing quite like it. This year, the statue — bearing the likeness of St. Paulinus — will be hoisted and lugged down North Eighth and Havemeyer Streets to North Tenth Street i...
New Hyde Park author reconnects with teacher who inspired him
When Michael Cascio published his debut children’s book, “When I Was A Child I Was Always Afraid,” in January, there was one person he wanted to thank, but couldn’t — Joan Pilla, his fourth-grade teacher. It was Pilla who took a 9-year-old Cascio under her wing and essentially taught him to read, he said. But they lost touch after that year at St....
10° "Festival della Musica Italiana a New York"
Si scaldano i motori per la prossima, decima edizione del Festival della Musica Italiana a New York, dal titolo “New York Canta”, in programma il 10 settembre nel Master Theater (Millennium) di Brooklyn: una manifestazione unica nel suo genere, attesa e seguita con grande interesse, ispirata quest'anno alla campagna internazionale #VIVEREALLITALIAN...