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Day by day, Our Lady of Loreto is disappearing. Workers have started demolishing a historic church in the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville that community activists have been fighting to save. Catholic officials are moving forward with plans to demolish Our Lady of Loreto Church, which was declared eligible for listing on the State and National Reg...

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The spirit of Sicily will be coming to southwest Brooklyn once again, as Bensonhurst gears up for the 42nd Annual Feast of Santa Rosalia. The feast, known by locals as the 18th Avenue Festival, will span 18th Avenue (aka Cristoforo Colombo Boulevard) from 65th Street to 75th Street from Thursday, August 17 through Sunday, August 27. “It’s a traditi...

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Piaggio has extended its product range with the introduction of the Wi-Bike. Vespa Manhattan and Vespa Brooklyn are the first exclusive dealerships to offer the Piaggio Wi-Bike. Wi-Bike aims to set itself apart from standard e-bikes with a combination of innovation and Italian design. The electric motor, transmission and battery are harmoniously in...

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Madonna mia. The statue is gone. It stood in front of Our Lady of Loreto, a historic Catholic church in the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville. The now-vacant church was built more than a century ago as a refuge for Italian immigrants who were discriminated against by Catholics of other ethnicities.As a photo taken by the Brooklyn Eagle on Tuesday s...

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Get ready, Bensonhurst’s annual Festa di Santa Rosalia is back! The 42nd annual Italian-American Feast will start on August 17, on the boulevard named for Cristoforo Colombo, between 68th Street and 75th Street and will last through August 27. On weekdays, the Feast will bring delicious food, live music, rides, and carnival games to the strip from...

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A Brooklyn woman has helped officials identify the remains of her uncle, a Marine in World War II, 74 years after he was killed — using her own DNA. Nancy Lewis, of Bensonhurst, sent in her DNA sample 2¹/₂ years ago, hoping it could lead military officials to the remains of Pvt. Joseph C. Carbone — who was killed on Nov. 20, 1943, the first day of...

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Ogni estate nel quartiere di Williamsburg si celebra la Festa del Giglio, manifestazione in onore di San Paolino da Nola e della Madonna del Carmelo. Migliaia di persone si riuniscono nel quartiere di Brooklyn e assistono alle tradizionali parate che hanno come protagonista il Giglio: una torre di 4 tonnellate e alta più di 24 metri che viene porta...

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Over 50 years ago, in 1965, Italian immigrant Domenico DeMarco opened Di Fara Pizza in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. To this day, it's considered by critics and locals alike to be "the best of the best," as former chef Anthony Bourdain put it back in 2007. There's a lot of pizza in New York City. It's a cliche maybe, but Di Fara Pizza is conside...

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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...

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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...

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