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For Giorgio Armani, style goes beyond fashion. It is but one expression, and food is another. Just two decades after debuting his fashion label in Milan in 1975, Armani opened his first restaurant in Paris, the entrée to an epicurean empire that now serves carefully considered Italian cuisine in such glittering cities as Dubai, Milan, and Tokyo. T...

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Far from the traffic, the lights, and the noise of New York City, for one night, on the occasion of A Chance in Life‘s 79th Gala, Cipriani 25 Broadway’s great hall was set with the magic of Peter Pan’s Neverland. “It is the place where lost boys and girls find hope, love, and a supportive community like ours,” said Gabriele Delmonaco, President and...

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Italian influence in New York City isn’t hard to find; it’s in the faces of 12% of the population, the trattoria-like restaurants that seem to be on every corner, the Aperol Spritzes in everyone’s hand come happy hour, and the neighborhoods in which you hear more Italian spoken than English. In the early 20th century, the city saw a massive influx...

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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...

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The Columbus Day Parade in New York City is the largest celebration of Italian-American culture in the United States. The position of Grand Marshal is an important one. Joe DiMaggio, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren all served as Grand Marshals of past parades. Sandra Bookman sat down with this year's Grand Marshal, Mike Strianese who will lead the...

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Tuesday Octber 22 at 6PM. Columbus Citizens Foundation 8 East 69th Street, NYC. Very few people know that two important monuments in New York City were created in Rome by New Yorker Emma Stebbins, the 19th century designer of Angel of the Waters at Bethesda Foundation in Central Park and Christopher Columbus, the statue adjacent to the New York Sta...

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Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO, one of Italy’s finest cured hams, takes the spotlight at this year’s NYC Wine & Food Festival. Thanks to the European co-funded project “The EU Gem Ham”, Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO will offer festival-goers a chance to savor centuries of Italian tradition at the Grand Tasting Pavilion from October 18th to 20th, and at an...

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A new museum celebrating Italian-American heritage will open in Little Italy next week on the annual holiday celebrating the green, white and red. The Italian American Museum will open to the public on Monday, Oct. 14, the Columbus Day holiday, at 151 Mulberry St. It will house three exhibitions that celebrate Italy and Italian-American culture. Th...

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The historic St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in Manhattan was vandalized over the weekend, with offensive graffiti and symbols defacing a church wall and a statue of the saint, according to police reports on October 8. The attack was discovered on October 6, and involved a profanity directed at Jesus and “several bizarre symbols” scrawled in black spray...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York inaugurated yesterday, October 8th, the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Sienese art of the 14th century, titled “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350.” The exhibition, which will run from October 13 until January 26, 2025, will feature over one hundred works, including paintings,...

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