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When: April 19, 2018–August 31, 2018, Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9AM–5PM - Where: Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036 In this collection of images, photojournalist Martha Cooper, well-known for her work on graffiti and the early days of hip-hop, documents Italian American vernacular expressi...

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Another downtown Arlington Heights restaurant will be introducing outdoor dining this summer. Passero, an Italian-American eatery that opened last fall at 5 W. Campbell St., got permission from the village board last week to install four tables on the sidewalk outside the restaurant. A license agreement between owners Matt and Rikki Peota and the v...

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Armando’s Restaurant and Bar, Brooklyn Heights’ classic Italian restaurant, has closed its doors after almost 82 years of business. City finance records show that Peter Byros, the restaurant’s owner since 1981, sold the building located at 143 Montague St. to Uri Koptiev for $7,418,000 on Feb. 14. Koptiev is a real estate agent. The roughly 2,000 s...

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One Staten Islander woman has put together a series of poems based off of her unique upbringing in both Brooklyn and Staten Island. Maria Giura, a New Springville native for the past 20 years, has compiled a series of her most notable poems in a recently released book titled, What My Father Taught Me. Giura will be reciting the works featured in he...

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Domenica 3 giugno 2018 si celebra la XV Giornata Nazionale dello Sport, una grande festa aperta a tutti che si svolge ogni anno dal 2003, la prima domenica di giugno. Una giornata all’insegna di chi ama e pratica lo sport e della promozione di tutte le discipline sportive coinvolte, con eventi e manifestazioni in molti Comuni italiani e da quest’an...

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One of the benefits to managing the Italian Enclaves Social Media pages (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) and blog, aside from traveling to some very interesting places, is that it affords me the chance to meet spectacular people. Occasionally, I try to shed light on individuals of Italian descent who are making extraordinary contributions to society....

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Mary Sansone, a pint-sized powerhouse social worker, founder of an Italian-American organization and a community activist who championed a wide variety of social justice causes died on Monday just one-month shy of her 102nd birthday. The 4-foot-11 Sansone fought virtually her entire life for equal rights for women, the underprivileged, Italian Amer...

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Brooklyn does not have a shortage of great places to go for pizza, whether for a slice or an entire pie. Three new spots recently opened up in the borough offering their own unique spin on a New York classic.  LBK, 669 Union Street (at 4th Avenue), Park Slope 347-889-5309Launched in February by the team behind Luzzo’s BK (145 Atlantic Avenue, Brook...

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There was scarcely a seat to be had at the brand-new Postino wine bar last Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The big front patio was full; the bar was packed; there were no empty tables. But I didn’t understand why Houstonians have embraced this new Phoenix-based import so enthusiastically until I got a look at their wines by the glass list. I had to blink twice...

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The In Scena! Theater Festival kicks off its sixth year of programming tonight, May 7 with a special performance of We Are Not Alone, a play about a psychiatric inmate facing struggles in the outside world. Other theater offerings throughout the course of the 15-day festival run from thrilling to dramatic to comedic and tragic. The best bit of news...

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