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ITA Airways launches new marketing campaign in North America. Starting today on air in San Francisco and Los Angeles, to be followed by Boston, Washington, Miami and New York. ITA Airways presented its new marketing campaign "A Sky full of Italy" in the Consulate General of Italy in New York, in the presence of Fabrizio Di Michele, Consul General o...

A few years ago, we heard about the project for a bridge across the Strait of Messina. It had been drawn up by a group of professionals who, I believe at the modest cost of 300 million euros, envisaged a copy of San Francisco’s Golden Gate. It was a disgrace on several counts. The most serious being: “Italy does not copy.” More recently, Italy’s pr...

It began its life as a computer chip warehouse facility off of Route 9 in Cold Spring, New York, a small town with a Metro-North train station and a few restaurants on its main street. Magazzino means “warehouse” in Italian, playing off this industrial past of the site, but the Magazzino Italian Art museum has been committed to refined elegance sin...

From September 05 2023, 10:00 to September 10 2023, 00:00. IIC-NY 686 Park Avenue, NY. On the occasion of Art Week NY, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York hosts the exhibition GOLDEN AGE, by Officina della Scala. On display, a refined selection of works of art and design objects that are a testimony of the credo of Officina della Scala, and...

Bulgari has opened a new boutique in New York City’s Hudson Yards shopping center. The opening marks the LVMH-owned jeweler’s second location in the city after its Fifth Avenue flagship boutique, which opened in 1989. The 2,200-square-foot space is “quintessentially Roman,” said Bulgari, nodding to its Roman roots with mid-century Italian design el...

Umberto’s of New Hyde Park, Long Island’s iconic pizzeria and Italian restaurant, will be hosting a special car show with the New York Alfa Romeo Owner’s Club (NYAROC) on Sunday, Aug. 20, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at their New Hyde Park location (633 Jericho Turnpike).  The event will support Island Harvest Food Bank, the leading hunger-relief organiz...

Magazzino Italian Art announces that the Robert Olnick Pavilion—the second building on the museum’s campus—will open on September 14, 2023. The pavilion was designed by the renowned Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo. This building will provide an additional 13,000 square feet of exhibition space, a multipurpose room with a...

Pamela Quinzi, a renowned fashion designer, and entrepreneur, was born and raised in Rome, Italy. Known for her exquisite creativity and craftsmanship, Pamela’s aesthetic eye for color, fabric, and detail has enabled her to work at the highest levels of the international fashion industry. She has a long history of developing clothing lines, accesso...

A local cigar factory is partnering with an Academy Award-nominated actor from the Bronx to launch A Bronx Tale Cigar. La Casa Grande Cigars and actor Chazz Palminteri launched the cigar Wednesday in Little Italy. "I dedicate a cigar to my grandfather Cologio. He came to this country with nothing, and he made a life for himself and I thought that w...

In early June, Panerai inaugurated its latest brick-and-mortar boutique on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Spanning two floors, and complete with a bar and displays cases full of vintage watches and memorabilia, Casa Panerai NYC is the largest Panerai boutique on the planet. Situated among the world’s top luxury names on one of the city’s most desirab...

While the general population is becoming increasingly more comfortable purchasing high-value items online, a brick-and-mortar retail presence is still highly important when it comes to the luxury watch market. In addition to providing buyers with the opportunity to experience how watches actually wear on their wrists, boutiques also serve as the pu...

A principal advocate for moving Madison Square Garden to make way for a grand new Penn Station announced Monday April 17 he has joined an Italian development firm as a consultant backing their plan to rebuild the station while leaving MSG in place. That is likely to put it on a collision with Community Board 5 which only last week recommended that...