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Most of the immigrants went to the cities. New York, Buffalo, Rochester and other cities in the State of New York received large contingents. It must be remembered that immigrants almost always came to join others who had preceded them – a husband, or a father, or an uncle or a friend.   In western New York most of the first immigrants from...

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By Guy D'Astolfo The Greater Youngstown Italian Festival had been trying to book singer Micheal Castaldo for several years, but the timing was never right — until this year.   The Italian-born tenor will sing Saturday and Sunday inside the Roma Tent, which holds 1,000 people, and his performance will be different both nights. The festival,...

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Il presidente del Gei (Gruppo Esponenti Italiani), Lucio Caputo ha dato il benvenuto al ristorante Le Cirque al ministro Cecile Kyenge. Cecile Kyenge ha parlato delle problematiche legate all'immigrazione sottolineando che l'Italia non è un paese razzista, ma manca una informazione corretta con ancora troppi sterotipi legati al fenomeno che devono...

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In the 1960s, East New York, Brooklyn made the Wild West look like Disney World. East New York was in such a lawless state. Street gangs dominated Brooklyn like the New Lots Boys, Fulton and Rockaway, the Crescents, Liberty Park Boys, Fountain and Pitkin, and Hemlock and Sutter. The black and Puerto Rican gangs took cool names, like the Chaplains,...

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by Greg Morabito   The unstoppable Italian-American culinary force of nature that is the Major Food Group is getting ready to take Flatbush Avenue by storm. A Times article from earlier this year about the group mentioned plans for a location of Parm across the street from the Barclays Center, and now, the Daily News reports that Mario Carbo...

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Few stories sound like less fun than that of the luckless inventor Antonio Meucci (1808-1889), the Rosebank resident who was unrecognized for inventing a pre-Alexander Graham Bell telephone and spent much of his life in grinding poverty.   And yet, "Meucci's Message," a new play by James Armstrong, injects warmth and humor into the material....

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It was a night of Italian food as Hope Hall School hosted a fundraiser to benefit its School Scholarship Program.   The second annual Taste of Italy dinner benefit was held at the Italian-American Sports Club.Participants paid $40to enjoy Italian cuisine like eggplant parmesan and chicken marsala. A chinese raffle, 50/50 drawing and Italian...

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By Mary Frost Historic 12th and 13th century manuscripts relating to St. Francis of Assisi are going on display starting Dec. 17 at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Borough President Eric Adams announced on Wednesday.   "Friar Francis: Traces, Words and Images," is the biggest exhibition ever to be held at Borough Hall, and organizers expect it to be...

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This presentation uses Paolo Sorrentino's La grande bellezza (2013) and Rosi's Sacro Gra (2013) to frame a selective deconstruction of the Eternal City.   Paragraphs include Genius of Rome (broadly based on a long view of the city's primary logistics: place and time), Grand Narratives (focusing on an evolving Roman mythology driven by polari...

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APRIL 29, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 Eppur si muove / And Yet It Moves is a series dedicated to Italians in and outside of Italy who give us hope for the future.   Books in comparison:The Country where Anything is Possible and Far from Us A conversation with the author...

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