Saratoga Springs picks up Augie’s Family Style Italian To-Go
A popular area restaurant is expanding to the Spa City with a new to-go location, where people can pick up family-style Italian cuisine. Augie’s Family Style Italian To-Go, an extension of Augie’s Family Style Italian Restaurant in Ballston Spa, opened on Wednesday afternoon at 223 Lake Ave. in Saratoga Springs. To celebrate, the business held a gr...
Ellis Island: il viaggio multidisciplinare di Maurizio Meta
“Il nonno di papà si imbarcò a Napoli nel 1890 e, dopo giorni di navigazione, arrivò a New York. In quel periodo, nel novembre del 1890, gli emigranti sbarcavano al Barge Office di Battery Park…” racconta Maurizio Igor Meta, attore, scrittore e regista che dal 2014 lavora a Ellis Island. Ellis Island è un progetto multidisciplinare che inizia dall...
Made in Italy to Be Celebrated in New York
The Italian Trade Commission will host an event tonight in New York to celebrate the best expressions of Made in Italy. The evening gala, to be held at Manhattan’s Spring Studios, will mark the end of the prestigious wine tasting event Vino 2017. During the evening, guests won’t only have the chance to taste the products of more than 70 high-end It...
Calabria: The Other Italy Book Presentations
NIAF member Karen Haid will be hosting two presentations of her book, “Calabria: The Other Italy,” at Italian cultural centers. The first will take place on Friday, February 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Westchester Italian Cultural Center in Tuckahoe, N.Y. This book presentation will also include a culinary demonstration and tasting of traditional Calab...
Students in grades 3-8! Now is the chance to enter your invention!
Deadline for entries Friday , February 17, 2017. Final Competition: Sunday, April 2, 2017. Calling All Young Inventors. In keeping with the legacy of inventor Antonio Meucci, The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is pleased to announce the: The 2017 Antonio Meucci Young Inventors’ Competition Throughout his lifetime, Antonio Meucci was responsible for many i...
Life on the Corner: Birds of Passage, Part 1
Of the twelve million immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954 four million were Italian and my grandmother, Colomba Cordani, was one of them. She left her small Northern Italian village of Ponte del Olio near Piacenza and arrived in New York on April 27, 1909 aboard the French Line steamship Chicago. The ship departed from LeHa...
Italy’s pizza-sandwich is coming to NYC
In a time of cultural erasure and broad public indecency, it's nice to see traditions and heritages respected. The next street food creation to hit NYC won't be a grotesque Frankenstein monster of fatty American favorites, like the infamous Double Down; but rather a revival of an old-school favorite from Italy: the Trapizzino. The triangular pizza...
JamesSuckling.com & Zachys Wine & Liquor Announce 2017 Great Wines of Italy New York City
JamesSuckling.com and Zachys Wine & Liquor are proud to present the 2017 edition of Great Wines of Italy NYC on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Returning to New York City’s state-of-the-art IAC Building, this unique walk-around wine tasting will showcase over 115 of the region’s most sought-after producers and premium boutique wineries. Each producer wil...
Eredi Pisanò Celebrates 15 Years of Men’s Fashion in New York
New York–In celebration of 15 years on Madison Avenue, the Eredi Pisanò boutique hosted it’s annual cocktail party on December 21 for customers and brand ambassadors including Brooklyn Net Caris LeVert who hosted the evening. Guests were greeted to a red carpet entrance and photo opportunity set up outside the boutique. The Italian brand is a favor...
East Village Restaurant Spotlight: New Italian Eatery Mandolino
A new pizzeria called Mandolino opened this past weekend at 137 East 13th St. between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue. Mandolino offers a variety of Italian fare, from pizza to meat to pasta. "The magic and the art happens in the kitchen where bold flavors and fresh ingredients evolve into delicious meals created by the hands of our truly talented a...
Italian apparel co. leases Ardsley flex building
A major Italian clothing brand is leasing a large space in the flex building at 466 Saw Mill River Road, although the company would not disclose its name. Alan Weisman with Lee & Associates in Manhattan, along with his partner Jered Rutledge, represented the building owner, 466 Saw Mill River Road LLC, for the 32,500-square-foot lease. The tenant,...
Orgoglio del sangue celanese, temerarietà e audacia. Ecco il Festival abruzzese di Rochester dove un avvocato sogna di far vivere la “buona” Italia
E’ abruzzese, è orgoglioso di avere sangue per metà aquilano e per metà marsicano. Ed tutto merito suo, del suo impegno e della sua tenacia, se la città di Rochester, nello Stato di New York, tornerà dopo circa 30 anni a vivere il divertimento, il cibo e la cultura italiana con il Little Italy Festival (http://www.littleitalyfest.com/), in programm...