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Our 2013 Open Golf Tournament will take place on Friday September 20, 2013 at Dyker Golf Course starting at 8am.   Luncheon at Dyker Golf Course will follow. Thanks to everyone!   Read more   Source: http://www.fiaobrooklyn.org  

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{tortags,3353,1}{tortags,3353,1}One of the most spectacular, unusual traditional Italian-American feasts in the United States is taking place from July 10 to 21 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.   The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Paulinus of Nola features the lifting of an 80-foot-tall, three-ton statue known as the Giglio, which means...

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By Rob Abruzzese   Frank Seddio and Frank Carone held their annual St. Joseph's Day Feast at their office in Canarsie on Friday, attracting so many members of Brooklyn's legal community that the crowd packed the office, the yard and the surrounding sidewalks. The feast was co-sponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild and the Columbian Lawyers...

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by Georgia Kral   Step back in time and give your taste buds a treat by visiting these bakeries and pastry shops. Italian breads and pastries are a true delight, and we're not surprised at all that so many of these business have been around for so long.Here are some of the city's oldest... (Did we miss your favorite? Tell us in the comments!...

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By Beth J. Harpaz Tony Muia was born and raised in Brooklyn and always loved the Christmas lights of Dyker Heights, an Italian-American neighbourhood where proud locals cover their homes in twinkling bulbs and fill their front yards with life-size Santas and Nativity scenes. Now he makes his living taking busloads of tourists from around the worl...

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di Riccardo Chioni   Come venti anni fa, quando una trentina di fedeli di Comunione e Liberazione si avviarono sul ponte di Brooklyn per la prima processione del Venerdì Santo, anche ieri il cielo era grigio con pioggia a tratti, che tuttavia non ha dissuaso oltre duemila persone a seguire la Croce nel suggestivo percorso. La processione, p...

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by Rob Abruzzese To celebrate the appointment of the first Italian-American chief judge in the state of New York, Hon. Janet DiFiore, the Columbian Lawyers Association, First Judicial Department held a yacht party aboard the Atlantis out of Pier 81 in Manhattan on Monday night.   "We are thrilled and privileged to welcome the chief judge,"...

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La sua parola preferita è 'noi', quella che lo fa reagire è 'legalità', "una parola sostenuta, abusata, celebrata, sulla bocca di tutti fino ad impoverirla. Legalità è diventata una bandiera che tutti usano e in quel nome si sono fatte leggi, penso alla Bossi-Fini sui migranti, che ne avevano ben poca. La chiamo cultura della legalità malleabile...

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by Colin Campbell   "Buongiorno!" Bill de Blasio exclaimed as he began a speech today. "Viva Italia!". The front-running mayoral candidate's Italian heritage was on full display this afternoon when he made an appearance at the end of the annual Columbus Day Parade in Bensonhurst, a neighborhood that was once the heart of Brooklyn's Ital...

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by Allegra Hobbs   They're seeing red sauce! An Italian eatery is going ahead with its plan to open on the ground floor of a Williamsburg condominium building, even though residents hate the idea so much the state has twice denied it a liquor license due to their protests.   The upstairs neighbors say the restaurateurs should kno...

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