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Brooklyn’s infamous Gargiulo's Restaurant at 2911 West 15th Street, Coney Island, celebrated a milestone on Sunday, April 23, as generations of family members — children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins —  traveled from all across the country to return to Coney Island for the gathering. Gargiulo’s, one of New York’s oldest restaurants, w...

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The Coney Island amusement park opened Sunday for another season — with a 1920s wooden roller-coaster and a new, steel one ready to roll at breakneck speeds.   In Luna Park, Italian amusement tycoon Alberto Zamperla joined Eric Adams as the Brooklyn borough president christened the Cyclone roller-coaster with a local tradition: cracking a bo...

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di Francesca Berardi   "L'Italia ha salvato Coney Island", ricorda con un tono di voce forte e deciso il presidente del quartiere di Brooklyn, Marty Markowitz. In una fredda e piovosa mattina di fine primavera, parlando a pochi metri dalla questa spiaggia che negli anni Venti era simbolo dell'eleganza e del divertimento dell'estate newyorkes...

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In 1969, my father Angelo and mother Onorina bought a house in Coney Island. My parents had come over to the United States just ten years before, but then we'd returned to spend four of those years in Italy.   I still had the traces of an accent from my first language, the dialect spoken in Vallemaio, a village of 600 people in the mountains...

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di Riccardo Chioni   Coney Island, ai newyorkesi e non solo, si manifesta con le sue due maggiori attrazioni di sempre che la caratterizzano nella stagione estiva: la sua estesa spiaggia e il celebrato Luna Park, entrambi distrutti o danneggiati dal passaggio di Superstorm Sandy. Dopo sette mesi dalla devastazione, il Memorial Day, come...

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Luna Park – the amusement district on Coney Island – now has a gelato maker from Italy making fresh artisanal gelato daily for Coney's Cones. He name is Daniele Del Sasso from Vincenza (in the Northeast of Italy) and his gelato's creative flavors and dense, rich texture is drawing crowds.   Three year ago, Alberto Zamperla (owner of Zamperla...

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