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On June 30, 2014, The Board of Trustees of The City University of New York appointed five new Distinguished Professors: Dean Anthony Julian Tamburri was one of them.   His appointment will go into effect this coming September 1, 2014, as Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College.   Read more &nbs...

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Borough President Melinda Katz swore-in Astoria resident and Queens-native Maria Lisella as the new Queens Poet Laureate. "We received applications from 30 accomplished poets and the task of narrowing those applications down to five finalists and then to a single winner was a difficult one, but we felt Maria Lisella stood out because of the qu...

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The Old Time Vincent's Italian and Seafood Restaurant is the Howard Beach neighborhood main stay of the Cross Bay Boulevard corridor. The interior glow provides a warm light on cold evenings that draws in customers to sit by the window and enjoy a glass of red wine as servers provide bread-hot from the oven-to dip into warm olive oil with basi...

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By Riccardo Chioni L'Associazione Sportiva Italiana di New York ha ufficializzato il primo anno di attività ieri presso la sala ricevimenti Russo's on the Bay a Howard Beach con un gala a cui hanno partecipato 150 persone tra soci e sostenitori.Gli ospiti hanno trovato una doppia sorpresa per l'occasione: le cantanti Vanessa Kirsty e Stephanie Nic...

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September 20 (Saturday) 2:00 pmUMBERTO E by Anton Evangelista Anton Evangelista, an award-winning filmmaker and actor, will present a documentary on his father, Umberto Evangelista. The film is a tender story of his 90 year old father which shows his triumphs and his personal struggles, his journey as an orphan in Italy and as a young immigrant, h...

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by Domenick Rafter Peak immigration from Italy to the United States died down three-quarters of a century ago, but generations later their influence is still obvious in America, especially in southern Queens. Try buying fish from Brothers in Howard Beach in the days before Christmas Eve, when many Italian-Americans still practice the old-worl...

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by Randy Vogt   Livio D'Arpino was an Eastern New York Hall of Famer who was seemingly involved in every level of local soccer before his untimely passing in 2002. He was the third vice president of the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) and the first vice president of the Eastern New York Adult Soccer Association.   L...

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L'associazione Sportiva Italiana Di New York ha celebrato il suo secondo Dinner Dance, Domenica 8 Novembre al Russo's on the bay. Hanno partecipato oltre 200 persone, e' stato un grande successo, la festa e' stata presentata dall'amico della nostra comunita Italiana Sal De Castro e allietata dal Duo Anthony Rizzuto e Mario Labita.   Il...

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By Thomas Kaplan John A. Catsimatidis let Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo borrow a Gulfstream IV jet this spring so he could fly to Binghamton, N.Y., for a wedding. Bill de Blasio was a deputy to Mr. Cuomo during the Clinton administration; William C. Thompson Jr. was a chairman of Mr. Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign; and Joseph J. Lhota served in his adminis...

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by Anthony J Tamburri   Join Queens College's world-class faculty and graduate programs for a unique opportunity in Italian Studies at the graduate level in the United States! The Department of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College offers three different Programs in Italian and Italian-American Studies. Students may enroll in...

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