Marco Li Mandri approaches a card table on the sidewalk of India Street in Little Italy where men interrupt their game to greet him with smiles and kisses on the cheek. He introduces me to "the famous" Frank and Joe Busalacchi. They're restaurant owners in the neighborhood.
This weekend, Little Italy celebrates its annual Festa, complete with sidewalk chalk drawings, a Sicilian swing band and, naturally, a bocce ball tournament. And it's also nearing the completion of a plaza that will take over one block of Date Street, on the corner of India. It'll be called the Piazza della Famiglia. Li Mandri said it will be the new center of the neighborhood.
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