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By Michael Lewis   With their chances of winning North American Soccer League spring season title slowly slipping away, the New York Cosmos will set their sights on another competition this week -- the Lamar Hunt/U.S. Open Cup.   The Cosmos host the Brooklyn Italians in a third-round encounter at Belson Stadium at St. John's Universit...

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At St. Finbar Roman Catholic Church, the Rev. Michael Louis Gelfant presides over a flock that spans an old and new Bath Beach. He leads a Sunday morning Mass in English and Italian for parishioners, many of them Italian-Americans who have lived in this South Brooklyn neighborhood for decades. The afternoon Mass is celebrated in Spanish for more r...

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The 125th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Snow, patroness of Sanza (SA), kicked-off Saturday in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn with a procession through the neighborhood and novena in honor of the Madonna della Neve at beautiful Saint Francis of Paola Church (219 Conselyea Street).   We had the privilege of attending the celebration and meeting man...

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By Annie Correal   On a recent weekday afternoon, Joe Brancaccio stood behind the counter ofBrancaccio's Food Shop in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. He wore a black T-shirt with Raphael's angels looking skyward, baggy pants and sneakers. And in black-rimmed glasses and a baseball cap, he looked like a cross between Ira Glass of public radio an...

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Paul Moses, professor of journalism at Brooklyn College, will discuss his book "An Unlikely Union, the Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians" when he speaks at a meeting of the Bay Ridge Historical Society on March 16. Moses, a former city editor at Newsday, will be the guest speaker at the meeting, set to take place at the Shore Hi...

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It's that time of year again when local artisan John Miniero builds his annual outdoor presepio in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn (14th Avenue, between 79th and 80th Streets). The Neapolitan Christmas tradition has been a neighborhood favorite for many years and continues to astonish onlookers with its whimsy and complexity.   I met up with Mr. M...

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by Amy Plitt   It looks like the fight to preserve a Brooklyn church has come to an end: The New York Times reports that Our Lady of Loreto, a turn-of-the-20th-century Catholic church in Brownsville, will be demolished, per plans on file with the Departmant of Buildings. That move makes way for low-income housing to eventually rise on the si...

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Brian Leth made a name for himself as the chef of Brooklyn favorite Vinegar Hill House, where he cooked for four years and helped shape the restaurant's stellar reputation.   After leaving Vinegar Hill House in 2013, the chef, who also worked at Prune and Blue Hill, did a brief stint last year in Manhattan at the short-lived Wine Disciples Enotec...

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This June, in honor of the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, three Friars from the Pontifical Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, in Padua, Italy, will bring three distinct relics to three different corners of the English-speaking world.   We are thrilled and honored to bring Saint Anthony of Padua, in the form of a holy relic, to the New Yor...

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L'Italian American Boxing Awards, evento che rappresenta il perfetto mix tra sport e cultura ideato e organizzato da New York Italians, ANPS USA e Fordham University, domenica sera ha visto la sua prima edizione nella storica palestra di New York Gleason's Gym. Nel 1937 l'italiano Peter Robert Gagliardi inglesizzò il suo nome in Bobby Gleason, per...

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