Did you know that there are 319,602 Italian Americans in Nassau County? That is 23 percent of its population and makes us No. 3 in the nation in numbers of Italian-Americans. Right here Williston Park we have Luigi Suppa the tailor from Rome, Mike, Steve and Donna  Mistretta who own Frantonis Restaurant and Mike the barber who was born in Naples, the bustling city that invented the pizza.

In Williston Park I work next to Anthony Capetola, one of Long Island’s most powerful divorce attorneys and I’m very good friends with Vince Albanese, senior partner at Albanese and Albanese. I play golf with Richard Ferrucci a vice president at Alliant Insurance Services. Another Italian-American I knew and loved was  Freddie DeMatteis, one of Long Island’s biggest developers.