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Little Italy is going full speed ahead with plans for the Little Italy Cultural center & Museum. Our first round of comments from the City and changes from our Architect now leave us with a daunting task of installing an entirely new foundation and a handicap lift elevator to meet the requirements for access to the "Italian Cellar" bar area of...

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December 8 (Tuesday) 8:00 pm. Alessandra Belloni Artistic Director & I Giullari di Piazza, Italian Folk Music, Theater and Dance. A special fund raiser in honor of I Giullari di Piazza's 35th Anniversary. Presenting by popular demand excerpts from "LA CANTATA DEI PASTORI" A Neapolitan Renaissance Christmas concert featuring: La Befana...

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Raise the rents, take the cannoli: Little Italy is disappearing.The downtown neighborhood — long a haven for immigrant families from the old country — was once threatened by an ever-expanding Chinatown. But now the fatal blow is being delivered by the gentrifiers.Young professionals, expensive lofts and boutique shops are all moving in. Brooks Brot...

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During the peak years of immigration to the United States from southern Italy, many of the Italian immigrants came to Delaware seeking a better life. They came to work as laborers on the railroad and in construction. In 1890, there were 459 Italian-born residents in Delaware and their numbers grew greatly by the close of the century. Besides those...

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Di Domenico Logozzo   L'Italia della cultura all'estero è molto apprezzata. E ogni anno sono migliaia gli studenti di tutto il mondo che vengono nel nostro Paese per arricchire la loro formazione universitaria. Tanti i figli ed i nipoti di emigranti che ritornano nella terra degli avi. A fine mese oltre cento universitari di New York raggiun...

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by John Mariani   If you've been to Little Italy in Manhattan and were disappointed by the tourist-trap atmosphere and the forgettable food, it's because you went to the wrong place.   The real Little Italy is a vibrant neighborhood in the Bronx called Belmont, half a mile from the Bronx Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Others call it Arthu...

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Photographer Stephen Nadler will be present at the Italian American Museum on Saturday August 8th and Saturday, August 15th to meet the public and to discuss his current exhibition, A Moment in Time: The People of Little Italy in 1976. The exhibit, currently on display in the Museum's gallery space, will remain on view through Labor Day, Monday, Se...

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by Joanna Fantozzi   It's the end of an era. The New York Times announced today that Torrisi, the famed two-star restaurant and flagship of the Torrisi/Carbone fleet, will soon close. But don't panic just yet. Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi plan on turning the intimate, lace-curtained spot into an intimate 15-seat dining experience this spri...

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Meet at the Arthur Avenue Retail Market: 2344 Arthur Avenue, Bronx, NY 10458. Spend your Halloween feasting on history and trick or treat for cheese, salume, bread and cannoli! Join us for a walking tour of Little Italy in the Bronx (aka Arthur Avenue) where we'll introduce you to one of the very last enclaves of family owned food shops in New...

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December 8, 2015: Presentation of Neapolitan Presepio: Nativity of MercyLocation: Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood 113 Baxter Street, New York, New York 10013   Description: Join us for The Blessing of the 'Presepio' and the beginning of the Holy Year of Mercy. The Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood presents a traditional Neap...

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