The Little Italy Association of Rochester says it's temporarily suspending activities as its founder fights what it calls "a serious health condition." The association said in a statement Monday morning that Silvano Orsi, also the association's president, "is battling the end stages" of a health condition. "I remain positive and upbeat and I will b...

 Sony Pictures Television’s TriStar is adapting Laurie Fabiano’s bestselling 2010 historical novel Elizabeth Street for television, with Edoardo Ponti (The Life Ahead) attached to direct and executive produce. Tyler Hisel (Treadstone, Wayward Pines) has written a pilot for the project, based on Fabiano’s own great-grandmother’s epic struggles. Eliz...

The owner of a beloved Italian-American gift shop that has been in business for more than 100 years is desperately looking to stay afloat at a time when the pandemic has delivered a blow both to his shop and to his family. Ernie Rossi recently returned to E. Rossi and Co, located on Grand St in the heart of Little Italy, for the first time in more...

The areas known as “Little Italy” abound in the United States from coast to coast. The individual locations are Italian-American enclaves established in cities where immigrants settled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The food typically reflects this heritage, as well, with menus offering the staples inspired by the immigrant experience o...

The proverbial alarm was sounded on Sunday, May 2nd, when during Mass at Most Precious Blood church, it was announced that there would be a meeting held on Tuesday, May 4th, to discuss the future of the church and its parish. With the recent sale of the church’s rectory in 2019 and the instant rise of condominiums in its place, the parishioners fra...

If you are in the NYC area, PLEASE come out to support the Italian American community in NY’s historic Little Italy on Mulberry Street. The Archdiocese of New York has called for a 6PM MEETING on TUESDAY, MAY 4th, 2021 at the historic Most Precious Blood Church (113 Baxter Street in Manhattan’s Little Italy). These meetings usually don’t bode well...

My mom has been talking about how much she misses Europe and how she can't wait to go back to Italy. Well, we don't have to wait -- we are so close to the Bronx Little Italy! This summer when school is out, The Belmont Business Improvement District (BID) safely welcomes families back to the borough, announcing the latest offerings from Bronx Little...

If you want to know what one of the most interesting neighborhoods in New York was like before the pandemic—-well, it’s back, and in these times, more important, more fun and more needed than ever. There really is only one Little Italy these days, and it’s in the Bronx, in the area known as the Belmont Business Improvement District. To most of us,...

A walk through Cleveland’s Little Italy in 2021 allows visitors to time travel through a history of Cleveland if they know where to look. It’s why the Little Italy Redevelopment Corporation is working on an updated neighborhood plan to better guide developers so future projects in the neighborhood reflect what the community wants. Buildings that ha...

The Italian Enclaves Historical Society's founder, Raymond Guarini, has garnered support from FIAO (Federation of Italian American Organizations of Brooklyn, Ltd.) and the local district's councilman, Justin Brannan, to have Dyker Heights' 13th Avenue designated as an official Little Italy historic district. Guarini started a petition on Change.org...