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One of Joe Iavarone’s professors at Sacred Heart University once told the class that no family-owned business survives longer than three generations. Iavarone, now 26, objected — he’s among the fourth generation of his family to run Iavarone Bros. Gourmet Italian Foods, managing the company’s New Hyde Park market with his cousin, Jonathan. The busi...

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Our Lady of Loreto is in jeopardy once again. Justice Ellen Spodek of the state Supreme Court in Brooklyn has denied plaintiff and former parishioner Jillian Mulvihill's motion for a preliminary injunction to halt the demolition of the vacant historic church by Catholic officials. Catholic Charities Progress of Peoples Development Corp. (POP) plans...

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June 28 (Wednesday) 7:30 pm: Napoli, Brooklyn - The Laura Pels Theatre - 111 West 46th Street, Manhattan Roundabout Theatre presents the world premiere of Napoli, Brooklyn, the latest work from Meghan Kennedy. In 1960 Brooklyn, the Muscolinos have raised three proud and passionate daughters. But as the girls come of age,their paths diverge-in drast...

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I joined my Teggianesi friends in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Sunday afternoon (May 28th) to celebrate the Grand Feast of their beloved patron, San Cono da Teggiano. Mass was celebrated in Italian by Fr. Vincenzo Chirichella in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, which is currently under renovation. It was great to see members of the Sacred Military Consta...

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Brooklyn’s most meteoric restaurant success in the last decade was Roberta’s. Starting out as a modest pizzeria with a wood-burning oven in an obscure corner of Bushwick, it swelled into an empire. Who can fault other rustic Naples-style pizzerias for trying to duplicate that success? Since Roberta’s founding in 2008, copycats have appeared in gent...

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This is the interview #160 I publish with We the Italians. Looking back, I am astonished and proud and honored when I understand how great, committed and excellent are the people that gave me the privilege to share with me and our readers their stories, their pride of being Italian, their knowledge about 159 different point of view from which anali...

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Don't touch that historic church. At a hearing Tuesday in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Justice Ellen Spodek extended a temporary restraining order that halts the demolition of Our Lady of Loreto in the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville. Justice Spodek will be issuing a decision in the next couple weeks concerning the suit, which was filed in la...

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This innovative bar is the place for avocado everything: smoothies, salads and, yes, toast. Francesco Brachetti, a native of Florence, Italy, fell for avocados while living in Mexico. “They’re tasty and healthy, and I ate them every day,” he said. “We didn’t have them in Italy.” He persuaded a cousin, the chef Alberto Gramini, also from Florence, a...

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Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, kicked off the 5th annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan on May 1st. The opening celebrated Award Winning playwright Mario Fratti with friends and admirers. With daily events in venues all around the city, the festival is c...

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Anne L. Campana, 94, a proud American of Italian descent and a native to Williamsburg, died Friday, April 28, 2017. She was preceded in death by her husband, Vincent Campana Sr.; and sons, Dr. Robert A. Campana and Ronald A. Campana; two brothers, Anthony and John Zullo; and sister and brother-in-law, Marie and Edward Welch. She is survived by her...

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