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Rocco Manzolillo eletto per il 28° anno consecutivo alla presidenza del Club "San Cono" di Brooklyn, una delle più prestigiose associazioni di italo americani presente negli Stati Uniti d'America.   La riconferma alla presidenza della prestigiosa associazione rappresenta un record nella storia del Club San Cono e, al tempo stesso, un attesta...

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Frank Barbaro, a champion of the working class who rose from longshoreman on the Brooklyn docks to progressive state legislator to state Supreme Court judge, died surrounded by family members at home Sunday, Sept. 4, of congestive heart failure. He was 88. The 6-foot-4, barrel-chested son of Italian immigrants never stopped fighting against powerf...

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By Riccardo Chioni   Torna a Coney Island una delle attrazioni che storicamente caratterizzavano il Luna Park sul lungomare di Brooklyn, l'ottovolante "Thunderbolt", una perla che mancava dal 1910, che torna a firma Alberto Zamperla.Ieri c'è stata la posa della prima pietra per la realizzazione a tempo di record delle montagne russe "Thunderbolt"...

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Our Lady of Loreto Church in Brownsville has been vacant for years, but some neighborhood residents are fighting to keep it from being torn down. Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens, which leases the property, says there are plans to demolish the church and turn it into affordable housing.   However, the Brownsville Cultural Coalitio...

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By Rob Abruzzese   Brooklyn attorney Marianne Bertuna was officially sworn in as president of the Columbian Lawyers Association for the 1st Judicial Department in front of more than 200 friends, colleagues and judges during a ceremony at the Water Club in Manhattan on Dec. 21.   "It was such an honor to be named president of such a te...

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By Nino Pantano A gala celebration was recently held honoring Commendatore Aldo Mancusi and the life and legacy of Mme. Licia Albanese at the New York Athletic Club at Central Park South. Mancusi, who is the founder and curator of the Enrico Caruso Museum in Brooklyn, was recently given the much coveted title of Commendatore, one of the highest ho...

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Bella Lena's is the perfect, corner Italian restaurant offering "Everyday Italian with Old World Charm", goes their slogan, and that's just what you'll get at this fabulous eatery located in the cozy village of Ridgewood, a short walk from the M train.   Bella Lena's is a family operation, opened two and a half years ago by the dynamic wife...

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Pizza's ugly stepchild is having a moment. Calzones have been undermined by the slice for years — but no more. The puffed, stuffed, half-moon shaped pouch is moving out of its mozzarella and dough comfort zone on the bottom shelf. Contemporary calzone shops are cramming the traditional Italian turnovers with everything from kiwi to pastra...

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Nicholas A. Corrado, 90, of New Dorp, a retired deputy commissioner for the city Department of Real Property and adjunct professor, a World War II veteran and family man, died Sunday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.   Born and raised in Brooklyn, he moved to New Dorp in 1969. Mr. Corrado served in the in the U.S. Army for...

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by Lore Croghan   Stop the wrecking ball. On Tuesday, state Assemblymember Latrice Walker called on Brooklyn's Catholic hierarchy to withdraw its demolition application for a historic church in the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville, Our Lady of Loreto. At a press conference outside the shuttered century-old church at 124 Sackman St...

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