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SFERRA, the luxury Italian home lifestyle brand, opens its first dedicated retail location, SFERRA Townhouse, in NYC today. The Townhouse is located in New York City's Flatiron District at 11 East 20th Street. The property and its location hold significant meaning for the brand as SFERRA's founder, Gennaro Sferra , established his NYC home in a sim...

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The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte are some of the greatest works in the Western musical tradition, and did much to build the reputation of their composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But the man who wrote their libretti, Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838)—an Italian poet who spent the last years of his life teaching Italian at New Yor...

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Andrea Bocelli has had a very busy festive season promoting his A Family Christmas album with his children Matteo and Virginia Bocelli. They even starred in an accompanying TV movie together, which they're following up this Easter with The Journey. The Italian maestro has been promoting the new music special which will play exclusively in US movie...

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It’s been 112 years, but several hundred people gathered on the corner of Washington and Greene Streets in Greenwich Village to make sure the 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were not forgotten. It marked the first in person commemoration since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the gathering to go remote. “I’ve been coming every year since...

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Join us on Wednesday, April 19, at Columbus Citizens Foundation (8 East 69th Street, New York, NY) for a Fireside Chat with Judge Calabresi and author of Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi, Norman Silber. RSVP today! The reception and lecture cost is $25. For $65, attendees may enjoy the reception, lecture, and receive a copy of Volume...

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Patsy’s Italian Restaurant has been known for years as the restaurant made famous by Frank Sinatra, and his family still enjoys dining here whenever they are in town. George Clooney’s aunt, cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney, was once quoted, “Patsy’s is still the best Italian restaurant in town. I make a pasta pilgrimage there every time...

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The fate of a pair of 88-year-old brick ovens at 290 Elizabeth Street in Manhattan, the heart of Little Italy, has been something of an open mystery in the neighborhood for years. The vintage coal ovens, each roughly 14 feet deep and ten feet wide, sit dormant behind a wall of white glazed brick in what was once, beginning in 1933, an Italian Ameri...

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Join us (Columbus Citizens Foundation | 8 East 69th Street, New York, NY) on Tuesday, April 18 at 6pm, for Living in Italian: Healthy Eating Italian Style! As a Dietitian, and lover of all things Italian-Fiorella explores the principles of healthy Italian eating and lifestyle. In this lively talk, Fiorella draws from her childhood and expertise to...

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An exceptionally rare Guarneri violin—so fabled that it has its own name, the Baltic—sold for $9.44 million (premium included) at auction on March 16, just shy of its $10 million estimate. The final sale price smashed the $3.6 million auction record for a Guarneri instrument (set in June 2022) to become the third-highest price paid for any musical...

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New York has always had places where an on-premise bakery pretty much eclipsed the rest of the restaurant, among them Balthazar, Payard Patisserie and Bistro, Sullivan Street, Angelina, and Clinton Street Baking Company. Baskets of fresh-baked goods may arrive on your table as a meal commences, scrumptious desserts appear at the end, and notably go...

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