"Non c'è una città così in tutto il pianeta. Uscendo da New York si ha la sensazione di aprire la valvola di una pentola a pressione. Qui tutto è più denso e compresso". Lorenzo «Jovanotti» Cherubini arriva alla Red Bull music academy adrenalinico e trafelato come ci si aspetta da un cittadino della Grande mela, seppure adottivo e temporaneo come l...
READ MOREUn po’ come si addice ad una favola, poco prima dello scoccare della mezzanotte di lunedì, il consigliere comunale di Brooklyn Vincent Gentile ha inoltrato la documentazione al Board of Election municipale con la sua nomina del partito democratico nella prossima elezione speciale al Congresso del 5 maggio. I democratici di Staten Island av...
READ MOREFirst, in 1970, the honor rolls were stolen — bronze plaques listing the 106 fallen World War I soldiers from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. Then, in 2000, a thief swiped the allegorical bronze figure at the center of the memorial. Thus the World War I monument, one of 122 across New York City's five boroughs in the parks...
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READ MOREBy Paula KatinasIt's one thing for children to star in an original musical. It's another thing to perform in an original musical in which the dialogue and songs will be entirely in Italian. Students from the Little Italian Language School of Brooklyn will be doing just that when they present "Il Festival Della Musica Italiana," an original...
READ MOREby Piero Armenti Se con la sua pizzeria di Ostia, Roma, riusciva a vivere bene, a New York ha costruito un impero. Giulio Adriani, 42 anni, pizzaiolo, vincitore di quattro campionati mondiali di pizza, oggi gestisce le tre pizzerie Forcella di New York: una si trova a Williamsburg, l'altra nell'East Village, l'ultima a Park Avenue. ...
READ MOREArtisanal everything has become somewhat of a Brooklyn stereotype, the stuff of gentle mockery in Simon Rich stories and episodes of HBO's Girls. I no longer ask if the Kool-Aid is locally-powdered and house-diluted when dining out, because I know it is and that the waitstaff is drinking gallons of it. So it's with a certain skepticism tha...
READ MOREBy John Alexander On June 14, hundreds of guests gathered at the Dyker Beach Golf Club to celebrate Mary Crisalli Sansone's 100th birthday. In attendance were dignitaries, elected officials, such as Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and family members. Also present were Sansone's close friends, including Matilda...
READ MOREdi Riccardo Chioni Gli agenti hanno ammanettato il public advocate Bill de Blasio mentre gridava assieme a centinaia di persone "Hell no, we won't go" durante un rally per cercare di salvare il Long Island College Hospital con un atto di disobbidienza civile nei pressi di Bryant Park a Midtown. Il gruppo di manifestanti si era riunito lun...
READ MORECross Bay Boulevard will once again play host to a Columbus Day parade next weekend for the first time in two years. The annual event, celebrating the neighborhood's Italian-American heritage and contributions made by Italian-Americans in society. The parade kicks off at noon on Sunday, Sept. 29 and will march along Cross Bay Boulevard....
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