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Opening a business is no easy undertaking but trying to open one in the middle of a pandemic comes with even more challenges. Fresh pasta is made from scratch every day at Pasta Louise. Owner Allison Arevalo shared some of the tasty dishes with News 12. "The food feels fresh. We use lots of local ingredients and lots of organic ingredients. It does...

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It is the end of 2016. In America, Trump has just been elected President. Angelica Bergamini has lived in Brooklyn since 2006. She’s an artist from Viareggio who relocated to New York. After the elections, she began producing a new kind of work: her recurrent motif now takes the form of a root. A sort of flight from the climate of uncertainty preva...

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In July 2016, Lisa Giordano of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, arrived at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s midtown Manhattan offices bearing a cache of letters written in Italian. Earlier that same year, on a Saturday morning in March, she had come upon the letters strewn on the sidewalk in front of a brownstone on Degraw Street, betwee...

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At Osteria Brooklyn, Chef Raffaele Solinas holds court in a pressed chef uniform. In the dining area, the pizza oven warms the room and the terracotta plates hanging on the wall seem to twinkle like Sardinian suns. Chef Raffaele, a Sardinian chef trained in the French method, keeps an immaculate space. On the pizza counter, a stand holds a porcelai...

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Mamma Mia, that’s a spicy lawsuit! A former Brooklyn College professor who started teaching Italian studies at the school in 1977 has filed a multimillion-dollar discrimination suit against the institution after it canceled the Italian major, federal court papers show. Professor Luigi Bonaffini, 73, who has published over 40 books and garnered seve...

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Vinnie’s Pizzeria on Bedford Avenue North Brooklyn has been serving pizza since 1960. Open seven days a week from 11:30 am until midnight, they know the appetites of their customers and the rhythms of one of New York’s most famous hipster neighborhoods, Williamsburg. It didn't take long for Vinnie’s to notice a downturn in the mood of customers aft...

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In the Italian neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, (where Dr. Fauci grew up), spooky Halloween pastries are a seasonal specialty. At Villabate Alba, a family-owned bakery and gelateria founded in 1979 by the Alaimo family, they sell exquisite trays of Sicilian pastries. When crisp autumn breezes rush through the streets, pushing trick-or-treater...

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Currently, only two neighborhoods in the five boroughs have Little Italy designations: Mulberry Street in downtown Manhattan, and Little Italy along Arthur Avenue in the Belmont section of the Bronx. Dyker Heights, specifically between 75th and 86th Streets, maintains the most authentic Italian character out of the five boroughs, especially Brookly...

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Italian American tradition has many cornerstones, and the Dance of the Giglio is one the most awe-inspiring. To build a Giglio is a feat onto itself, and then to dance this multi-story piece of art is another grand accomplishment altogether. The Giglio Boys of Williamsburg along with their friends from East Harlem, Franklin Square Long Island and m...

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Former New York State Senator Joseph L. Bruno, who rose from an impoverished family into one of the most powerful state politicians, died Oct. 6. He was 91 and had been battling cancer in recent years, according to a family spokesperson. Born into a large family with Italian immigrant parents in Glens Falls, young Joe Bruno worked several jobs, gra...

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