by Domenick Rafter

Peak immigration from Italy to the United States died down three-quarters of a century ago, but generations later their influence is still obvious in America, especially in southern Queens. Try buying fish from Brothers in Howard Beach in the days before Christmas Eve, when many Italian-Americans still practice the old-world tradition of serving seven fishes on the night Jesus was born.

Attend a banquet at Russo's on the Bay or Villa Russo in Richmond Hill, whose Il Palazzo banquet hall is a throwback to a town square in any rural village in Italy. Look around during the World Cup tournaments every four years and see the green, white and red displayed in windows and on front stoops.

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