After a year of work, the project has taken shape. Wednesday evening, at the Consulate General of Italy in New York, I³/NYC – the Italian Innovators Initiative, a nonprofit organization that aims to connect Italian start-ups that want to enter the New York market and venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, scientists, and companies willing to support t...

Please be informed that on Friday, December 6 2024, Italian nationals registered with AIRE at this Consulate General of Italy in New York may submit a request for the issuance of the Italian passport at the IACC Italian American Community Center in Albany, NY. The applicants must reside in the following Counties in the State of New York: Ulster, Du...

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso hosted the Italian Heritage and Culture Proclamation Ceremony on Oct. 30 at FIAO's Il Centro Cultural Community Center in Bath Beach, recognizing the contributions of Italian Americans to the borough. Among the honorees was Frank Seddio, a retired Surrogate's Court Judge, former Brooklyn Bar Association pr...

The BBasketteers team Amelia Tuzzolino, Marianna Angelina Delfaus, Giuseppe Sylvester, and Massimo Edwards, the four NYC based Italian-American players, just returned from Sicily with a wealth of emotions and memories. From October 3rd to 6th, they participated in the Trofeo Coni Estate/Coni Trophy Summer edition, the youth Olympic styled games org...

Gracie Mansion hosted a long-running annual reception celebrating Italian heritage, attended by various elected officials, including mayor Eric Adams, and representatives from local Italian cultural societies. Also in attendance was the Consul General of Italy in New York, Fabrizio Di Michele, who delivered a speech centered on Columbus Day, taking...

The Consulate General of Italy in New York and Rai-Radiotelevisione Italiana organised a special event at their Park Avenue headquarters dedicated to 100 years of radio and 70 years of Italian television, in collaboration with Rai Teche and Rai Fiction and under the patronage of the Mike Bongiorno Foundation. The evening was opened by Consul Genera...

ITALEA’s marathon in New York continues with a second event hosted by ENIT. The Italian National Tourism Agency has made available the space of Piazza Italia, at the corner of Madison Avenue and 44th Street, to facilitate dialogue between Italian tour operators and American tour agents so that “root trips” are best organized. “We had to participate...

The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, hosted today at the Italian Consulate General in New York the event “Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust,” to honor 60 diplomats – including 6 Italians – for their aid to Jews persecuted by the Nazis during the Second World War. “The extraordinary example of these diplomats, who hid, pr...

It was announced on September 13, 2024 by the Vice-Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani and the Minister for Sports and Youth Andrea Abodi at the official launch of Italian Sports Day in the World in Rome. Sport is an extraordinary vehicle for Italy on the international level, not only for the value...

February 2024 Christopher Columbus' legal defense in American courts: thanks to George Bochetto