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by Rachel Silberstein   Save the dates! Weekend Walks are coming to Bensonhurst's 18th Avenue in July. Every summer, the Department of Transportation [DOT] partners with community groups to present multi-block neighborhood events, by temporarily closing commercial streets to vehicles and opening them to walking and other activities. &n...

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Debi Mazar and her brood spend at least a month in Tuscany each year, but if the "Younger" actress had her way, the region would be a far more permanent fixture in her life. "If I didn't have children in American schools, I would leave tomorrow," the New Yorker says.   While the charms of the Italian region are obvious, it's more person...

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LET THE parade of pastas begin. Brooklyn's second annual Italian Restaurant Week kicks off Oct. 8 with eight days of culinary delights from across the borough.   More than 40 restaurants scattered from DUMBO to Sheepshead Bay and Bensonhurst will treat diners to discounts and specials through Oct. 15.     Read more   Sou...

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By Kristine M. Kierzek Rossella Rago grew up making pastas and traditional dishes from Mola di Bari, the small Italian fishing village where her parents were born.   A first-generation Italian-American from Brooklyn, everything she learned about cooking came from her nonna. She knows her knife skills might raise an eyebrow or two. That's OK...

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by Marguerite Preston   Here's a guide to eight great restaurants that are serving that traditional Italian-American Christmas Eve dinner, the Feast of the Seven Fishes. Many have taken the literal route, and are serving seven course meals of octopus, salt cod, clams, and more, but there are also few more condensed meals on the list. ...

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By Michael Lewis   They forever will be grateful to the team and organization for giving them an opportunity to play in vital times in their careers two decades. The Brooklyn Italians gave New York Cosmos head coach Giovanni Savarese a conduit from Long Island University to the professional ranks.   The club gave Cosmos assistant coac...

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  WTI Magazine #6    2013 Nov, 22Author : Barclays Center      Translation by:   It is without doubt that classical music, including opera, has the ability to tell a divine story to its listener. It can empower the listener with deep emotion through the passion in which the artist performs. This genre is one of...

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Last night after work, I stopped by the Knights of Columbus Archbishop John Hughes Council 481 (1305 86th St.) in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn for the opening night of the First Annual Feast of the Madonna di Montevergine. Before entering the bustling fairgrounds, I stopped by the outdoor shrine on the veranda to make a donation and say a prayer. I was...

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By Paula Katinas Hon. Patricia DiMango, star of the hit CBS show "Hot Bench," came back home to Brooklyn to star as a grand marshal in the 34th annual Brooklyn Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 10, riding along the parade route on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst in an open air car accompanied by her proud parents, Mafalda and Anthony DiMango.   Justic...

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By Sol Park   It's not personal, it's strictly business. In one scene of a new novel by former Brooklyn resident Frank J. Pennisi, a group of Sicilians wielding flaming wine bottles full of gasoline have a confrontation with striking Irish workers on the Red Hook docks.   Giuseppe, one of the main characters in the historically-m...

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