Only in New York could an Italian-American mayor find a piece of the minuscule mountain village his family left a century ago just steps from City Hall.

Mayor de Blasio frequently grabs lunch at Pisillo Italian Panini shop on Nassau St. , which Antonella Silvio opened in November 2012 — the same month de Blasio was elected mayor. She took that as a good sign. "I said, 'I think this — it is my destiny,' " said Silvio, who co-owns the shop with her husband, Carmelo Nazzaro. Silvio knew de Blasio's grandfather Giovanni de Blasio was from her hometown, Sant'Agata dei Goti — everyone there knows who the mayor is — but he didn't know her.

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