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Two brothers are taking a page from their family by starting a pizzeria and adding their own twist to the pizza pie. Anthony and Sal Fasolino worked in Yolanda's Italian Restaurant on East 149th Street for 15 years. But on Monday, the third-generation pizza makers opened their own joint, Pizzaniste in Throgs Neck. The new eatery allows patrons to c...

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'A Bronx Tale the Musical' creator and actor Chazz Palminteri visited a newly completed mural off Arthur Avenue in which he is proudly displayed on. Palminteri's iconic character, Sonny, is a big part of the mural created by Bronx artists Mike A. and Ron Rundo. It's located near the intersection of East Fordham Road and Hughes Avenue. Palminteri sa...

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If you really want to add authenticity to your Sunday serving of macaroni, meatballs and gravy, a trip to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx will yield as many homemade Italian shopping opportunities as it always has. On the other hand, finding the old Italian-American community among those businesses is more difficult, so Katonah filmmaker Dante Liberator...

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The Forum of Italian Educators toasted several distinguished leaders at its 33rd annual dinner dance and awards gala on Friday, March 31 at Villa Barone Manor. This year’s honorees included Thomas G. Giordano Leadership in Education Award recipients Michael Coppotelli, Archdiocese of New York associate superintendent of Student Government Affairs a...

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A college in the Bronx is digging up the roots of Italian-American history through a real-life project. John and Giacomina Meduri - two Italian-Americans who grew up in 1940s - were interviewed by Fordham University professor Kathleen Lapenta to look at the ways they lived and experienced life in the Bronx in the 20th century. The interview is part...

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Despite the sophisticated experience that comes with classically Italian restaurants like Enzo’s and Zero Otto Nove, my parents only visit so many times a semester. To compensate, I typically wind up with Italian-American comfort food from Michaelangelo’s. Usually, I’ll down too many glasses of wine and order lobster ravioli in vodka sauce. However...

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The problem with turning 107, Joe Binder said, is that “you can’t work no more.” Mr. Binder turns 107 on Saturday, but he had the confidence to celebrate early during his regular Wednesday lunch at Mario’s on Arthur Avenue, the main drag in Belmont, a longstanding Italian neighborhood in the Bronx. Until a few years ago, Mr. Binder was holding down...

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Some business owners like to open well established neighborhoods. Others seek out the new frontier, and that's the idea behind this week's Neighborhood Eats. This Italian spot opened in October in what some developers are calling the piano district of the Bronx, because it's where pianos used to be built in the early 1900s.Now it's becoming more re...

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Leave the sign, take the cannoli. Little Italy pastry shop owner John "Baby John" Delutro of Caffé Palermo asked Broadway's "A Bronx Tale" to remove a sign on its set that dubs another pastry joint "The Cannoli King," infringing on his trademark. The show — a coming-of-age story about an Italian kid growing up in the Bronx during the socially segre...

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L’on. Francesca La Marca la scorsa settimana ha vissuto intense giornate di lavoro nell’area di New York, dove ha avuto diversi e proficui incontri con la locale comunità italiana.Mercoledì 8 marzo, la parlamentare ha presenziato presso il consolato di New York al vernissage della mostra fotografica del maestro Maurizio Barberis, organizzata dal co...

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