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The city is holding public hearings in all five boroughs to let New Yorkers give their two cents on whether potentially-offensive statues should stay or go. The commission created by Mayor de Blasio is reviewing “symbols of hate” on city property, and is expected to give recommendations on monuments to scrap or keep by the end of the year. “Our pub...

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A Bensonhurst actor got a big break with legendary director Martin Scorsese’s latest film “The Irishman.” Dominick LaRuffa Jr., who has loved to act since he was a child, landed his biggest role yet in the Netflix exclusive movie “The Irishman,” a film that reunites award-winning actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Getting the role was a difficult...

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Last week was very gratifying. My endeavors for the greater Duesiciliano (southern Italian) community were recognized by three different associations! Even though I’m not concerned with personal laurels, I am pleased to see that my hard work does not go unnoticed. The awards I received from the Associazione Amici di Totò and the Comitati Due Sicili...

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Nov. 18, 19, 25, 26 (Saturdays and Sundays) 3:00 pm. La Traviata - With full Orchestra. Our Lady of Perpetual Help. 5902 6th Avenue, Brooklyn. Admission: $25; $20 seniors; $5 teens; open to the public. Contact: Fran Garber-Cohen 718-259-2772. [email protected] www.reginaopera.org  Enjoy a fully staged performance of Verdi's tragedy La Traviata....

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Miami, a city where New York-style pizza was once rare, this week welcomes a third pizza joint from up North. Roberta's, a popular Brooklyn restaurant and pizza shop based in Bushwick, has fired up its oven in the Design District to produce a lineup of traditional and exotic pies. The pop-up opens Wednesday, October 18, and will remain in Miami thr...

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Here’s another tour that takes its fundamentals from the Frizzi 2 Fulci Project, conceived many years ago in the mind of the Maestro and finally brought to the stage, both Italian and international, in 2013. That year marked the incredible beginning of a series of events held in great venues all over the world. Now, the time has come for a new evol...

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No more life behind the wheel of a food truck for Chris Auriemma. The Brooklyn transplant is opening Gumba’s Italian on Nov. 3 at 100 E. 20th Ave., at the corner of Lincoln Street. This will be the first brick-and-mortar location for Auriemma, who owns two food trucks. “I’m bringing them a taste of Brooklyn,” he said, adding that he wants to import...

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A Bensonhurst street just got a new name. More than 200 people, including Councilmember Vincent Gentile and state Sen. Marty Golden, gathered on the corner of 15th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway for the street-renaming ceremony that honored beloved community civic leader Alberto Ingravallo. The new sign now reads “Alberto Ingravallo Way.” The Italian...

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It's too late to save her. It's not too late to mourn her. There will be a mock funeral on Saturday for Loreto — Our Lady of Loreto. In the blink of an eye, a demolition crew has obliterated the historic Catholic church at 126 Sackman St. in the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville. There's nothing left but rubble. This Brooklyn Eagle reporter snapped...

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It was a buffet of biblical proportions! Hundreds of people flooded a Williamsburg street on Sunday for Columbus-Day Giglio, a scaled-down version of the massive feast that neighborhood Catholics celebrate for several days each July. And even though the party didn’t last as long as its summer counterpart, there was still plenty of food to go around...

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