By Paula Katinas Hon. Patricia DiMango, star of the hit CBS show "Hot Bench," came back home to Brooklyn to star as a grand marshal in the 34th annual Brooklyn Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 10, riding along the parade route on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst in an open air car accompanied by her proud parents, Mafalda and Anthony DiMango.   Justic...

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...

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...

Maria Teresa Cometto e Alessandro Piol hanno scritto insieme un bellissimo libro sulle startup a New York, "Tech and the City, un modello per l'Italia", editore Guerini e Associati. Diversamente da altri di questo genere, che pretendono di indicarci l'ubicazione della pietra filosofale, o ci infliggono tediose lezioncine pratiche di management, è u...

Learn Italy New York invites all the students to GELATO NIGHT at L'Arte del Gelato. Great occasion to taste a typical italian Gelato while conversing in ITALIANO! When? Thursday, August 22th at 8.30 pm.   Where? If you have class at our our Midtown location we can go together to Chelsea Market, after class at 8pm.   Read more...

By Sol Park   It's not personal, it's strictly business. In one scene of a new novel by former Brooklyn resident Frank J. Pennisi, a group of Sicilians wielding flaming wine bottles full of gasoline have a confrontation with striking Irish workers on the Red Hook docks.   Giuseppe, one of the main characters in the historically-m...

Sarà l'artista italiana Paola Pivi ad inaugurare ( dal 18 settembre al 26 ottobre) con le sue opere la Galerie Perrotin nel suo nuovo spazio a New York con una mostra fra l'audace ed il giocoso.Pivi crea opere d'arte che disorientano ed allo stesso tempo rendono una dimensione poetica. Anche se formalmente il suo lavoro si è spinto al limite di ciò...

The Italian Club of Staten Island will hold its Dinner Dance on Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Staaten, West Brighton. The gala evening includes a cocktail hour, formal sit-down dinner, assorted desserts and dancing. Live musical entertainment will be provided by the club's own Michael Russo Orchestra.   Chairing the event is Anthony Manisc...

Award winning singer Cristina Fontanelli, brings her 10th annual "Christmas in Italy®" show to the BMCC Tribeca PAC, NYC on Saturday, December 7. The show completes The Year of Italian Culture in the US and benefits the Wounded Warrior Project.   "This show is such a labor of love and it has been for ten years," said Fontanelli, who grew up...

by Jennifer Fermino, Kenneth Lovett   Mayor de Blasio still has Gov. Cuomo's back. The mayor said Wednesday he's been too busy to focus on allegations that Gov. Cuomo interfered with his anti-corruption commission - but branded the governor a "person of high integrity."   "I think he has a long and impressive history of being an...