Caffe Palermo: Expanding And Keeping Little Italy Vibrant
A February 2018 feature story in the New York Times described Little Italy as having “shrunk to a name on a street map and at most-a three-block stretch of red-sauce joints on Mulberry Street patronized almost entirely by tourists.” While Chinatown expanded its borders, Little Itay kept diminishing. But don’t tell that to John Delutro, the owner of...
Rockland Community College (Suffern, NY) celebrates Italian Heritage Month
Rockland Community College (RCC) is celebrating Italian Heritage Month with several fun events in October. Hosted by the RCC Italian Heritage Committee, the events aim to foster an appreciation for Italian and Italian-American culture, history, and contributions, enriching the RCC community with a rich tapestry of lectures, films, and presentations...
Columbus Day luncheon in Gates (NY) celebrates Italian heritage
The Italian Civic League hosted its 82nd annual Columbus Day luncheon Monday. It was held at the Italian American Community Center in Gates. Quintino DiCesare, the civic league’s president and an Italian immigrant, says while the federal holiday started as a celebration of Christopher Columbus coming to America, it has since become a celebration of...
Columbus Day Parade: Honoring Italian heritage in NYC for 79 years
Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated their Italian heritage at the 79th annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City on Monday. It’s the world’s largest celebration of Italian heritage and it all happens on Fifth Avenue. Columbus Citizens Foundation is the nonprofit organization that puts on the parade. Marian Pardo is the board chair and says...
Annual Italian festival draws big crowd
If you went down to Kingston’s Rondout waterfront Sunday for lunch, you likely realized you had too many choices. The Ulster County Italian Festival closed down the waterfront with music, food and entertainment, and Rondout restaurants were open along with many, many food vendors like Jo Burruby. Burruby owns the Frozen Caboose Ice Cream Shop, in H...
Botticelli Week at Stony Brook U. Focuses on the Artist’s Depiction of Hair
Sandro Botticelli was a renowned Italian painter of the Renaissance who had a distinctive style of depicting hair in his portraits of women. He is best known for his iconic painting, The Birth of Venus, that shows the goddess arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown, ankle-length hair a glorious mass of w...
The Italian-American Women of Staten Island celebrate at ‘Pranza,’ a traditional luncheon hosted in South Beach
Since October is Italian Heritage Month, what better way to celebrate all things Italian than to eat, drink and be merry — and celebrate all the good works performed by members of The Italian-American Women of Staten Island (IAWSI)? The organization commemorated its annual “Pranzo” Luncheon at the Crystal Room in South Beach and saw newly elected...
Rally in support of Columbus statue in downtown Syracuse
As the fight continues over the future of the Christopher Columbus statue in downtown Syracuse, supporters of keeping the statue turned out for a rally in front of the statue at Columbus Circle on Saturday morning, Oct. 7. Multiple people at the rally spoke in favor of the statue. People against the Columbus statue also attended and held a banner r...
Riccardo Muti takes a victory lap in NY with the Chicago Symphony
When Riccardo Muti stepped down from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last season, after 13 years as its conductor, the ensemble promptly turned around and named him music director emeritus for life. In a two-part season opener at Carnegie Hall this week, it was easy to hear why. Under Muti, the Chicago Symphony is all power and finesse with no unsig...
Destination Italia Expands with New York Office Opening
Destination Italia, a leader in high-end tourism and Italy’s largest TravelTech company specializing in quality incoming tourism and experiential travel, celebrated at the Intesa Sanpaolo building the opening of its new office in New York. The event, which featured presentations by Dina Ravera, President of Destination Italia, and remarks by Fabriz...
Moments Frozen in Time with John Rossi
John Rossi, a retired school teacher from the New York City school system, has a deep passion for capturing moments through his lens. Although he currently lives on Staten Island, his heart remains in his native Brooklyn. Larry Racioppio, a fellow photographer, friend of John’s and contributor to Street Photography Magazine, introduced me to John’s...
Permanent Memorial to be Dedicated to Victims of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
On Wednesday, October 11, the long-awaited public memorial to the victims and legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire will be dedicated at the site of the historic fire in New York City. The Triangle Fire Memorial will be a permanent element on the very building that housed the Triangle Factory, at the corner of Greene Street and Washin...