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Little Italy is expanding east. Known for its made-to-order New York-style pizza and homemade pastas, the original location is in Midtown at 1495 Union Ave. A second location opened about five years ago in Downtown Memphis at 106 GE Patterson Ave. There is also a Bartlett location at 7717 U.S. 70 that, like the Downtown restaurant, is independently...

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Supporters of the two newest additions to Little Italy San Jose got a sneak peek at a June 22 preview event for Poor House Bistro and the Little Italy Museum and Cultural Center. The 5,000-square-foot piazza that connects the two venues was full of people who paid $30 a pop to dine on food from Poor House Bistro as well as Paesano’s and Bibo’s Pizz...

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CONSTRUCTED IN 1978, THE PIAZZA d’Italia in New Orleans’ Warehouse district has seen both boom and bust. Originally designed as part of an urban revitalization project under New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, the entire block was reimagined, though only a portion of the plans were realized. The Piazza was completed in 1978 as a surprise space in the...

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Cleveland and Ohio have a great history of Italian emigration, perhaps not celebrated as much as it should be, as is often the case with Italian American communities that do not reside on one coast or the other. In Cleveland there is a beautiful Little Italy, still vibrant and buzzing, and our today's guest has her office right there. Angela Spital...

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The charming Italian streetscape known as “Little Italy” is a striking feature of Lara Stone’s custom-designed home. The “street” transforms the home’s basement light well into a cozy Italian retreat with a decorative fountain, intimate café tables and realistic storefronts. “I wanted to do something unique with the space,” Stone said. “I didn’t wa...

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Prepare you tastebuds and Taste Passport for a day full of fresh, authentic Italian cuisine at the annual Taste of Little Italy on June 20th and 21st. Foodies will eat, sip and stroll their way through the neighborhood sampling culinary delights from more than 30 of San Diego’s top chefs and restaurants.  “Taste of Little Italy has drawn hundreds o...

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Rochester's Little Italy Historic District (an official city neighborhood and nationally-recognized historic Italian American enclave) will celebrate its 4th Anniversary this Friday, June 2nd, 2023, at noon at Rocky's Italian Restaurant on Jay Street (one of our neighborhood's most iconic and historic Italian American owned businesses.) The Little...

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If you’re going up against the mob, you’d better have a gang. The New York Police Department put one together back in 1904. New immigrants, and new kinds of crime, were flooding the city and the old Irish cops on the beat didn’t understand either. It was time to launch a special force. They called it “The Italian Squad.” Paul Moses’ latest book pay...

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In May, Random Road was closed down in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood for the unveiling of a historical marker that pays tribute to the Italian immigrant stonemasons who carved some of the city’s most iconic stone works. The marker was placed at the site of the former Ohio Cut Stone Co., where Cleveland’s “Guardians of Traffic” were hand-car...

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Cities as diverse and far-flung as San Francisco, London and Melbourne have a neighborhood they call Little Italy. Now, Sacramento has one, too. In late 2021, the city council adopted a resolution designating a portion of East Sacrament —the area bounded by Folsom Boulevard and 48th, 59th and J streets—as Little Italy, in recognition of the role It...

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