Saturday, July 13th Our Lady of Mount Carmel Chapel(Attended by Saint Leo's Parish)103-56 52nd Avenue - Corona, NY 11268 - (718) 592-7569 Mass will be celebrated at noon at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Chapel, followed by a procession to William F. Moore Park (aka 'Spaghetti Park'). William F. Morre Park - 108 Street,...
READ MORE2016 Ambasciatore Awards Ceremony and Dinner. ** Submit a Nominee by November 30, 2015 ** Honoring Outstanding Italian American Leaders and their Italian American Organizations. Sunday, January 24, 2016 - Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, NY. The Italian American Museum will host the Long Island Ambasciatore Awards on Sund...
READ MOREIncanto Productions in collaboration with the Italian American Committee on EducationpresentAMERICAN DEBUT – LIMITED RUNTHOUSAND OF KIDS WILL LEARN ITALIAN THROUGH MUSIC IN THETHEATREQueens Theatre, New YorkMarch 19-20-21, 2013The leading Incanto Productions, LLC, based in Queens, enthusiastically announces the American debut of the new bilingual s...
READ MOREby Michael Barbaro Bill de Blasio drives a gas-sipping Ford hybrid and cultivates tomatoes and peppers from his backyard in brownstone Brooklyn. He works out at the socially responsible Y.M.C.A. and opted for the all-hands-on-deck rigors of the Park Slope Childcare Collective. His wedding was a multicultural billboard for the...
READ MOREMorristown, NJ (Restaurant News Release) Villa Enterprises, multi-brand restaurant operator and franchisor celebrating 50 years in business, announcedVilla Italian Kitchen is now open with two new locations at New York's LaGuardia Airport (LGA). As part of ongoing efforts to provide world-class airport facilities to both passengers and air...
READ MOREThe day after the All-Star Game 5K in Prospect Park, the Federation of Italian-American Organizations of Queens held their 25th annual 2013 5K Run/Walk Against Drug Abuse in Astoria. Although this event did not draw the nearly 5,000 runners that the All-Star Game race did, it certainly did attract a dedicated community, from local running groups to...
READ MOREDomenica 4 agosto, una consistente fetta della comunità italiana della grande area metropolitana di New York si è ritrovata a Queens per festeggiare la Madonna della Libera e l'associazione culturale italiana ad essa collegata. La Madonna della Libera è venerata in tutto il Benevenetano ed aree limitrofe. L'associazione fu costituita oltre...
READ MOREby Michael Barbaro The commercial that changed the course of the mayor's race almost never happened. Bill de Blasio's campaign team had mused about building an ad around his wife, Chirlane McCray, a telegenic African-American poet, then abandoned the concept. They then turned to his 15-year-old son, but nothing seemed to go right...
READ MOREby Kevin Kessler I had just taken the bus from Williamsburg and was now having visions of an Italian nonna feeding her husband nearly every bite of food on his plate. It was six o'clock on a Monday and I was in Forest Hills, Queens, enjoying the simple but excellent bruschetta laid before me. Sitting under a vaulted ceiling in a r...
READ MOREdi Riccardo Chioni Si è appena conclusa la 36.ma edizione dello strapopolare Five Boro Bike Tour che ha visto la partecipazione di oltre 32 mila ciclisti e già si parla del 2014 con il Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia che ieri ha fatto l'esordio newyorkese. In quasi quaranta anni dal primo tour dei cinque quartieri della Big Apple, i ciclisti dilettan...
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