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The corner of Morris Park and Hone avenues, where Giusseppe Tevere owned Captain's Pizza for nearly 40 years, was co-named after him on Sunday. The new street sign displays the name “Joe Captain’s Way” – a name everyone knew him by. Tevere's wife, Josephine, says she thinks her late husband is "honored in a way that you can't imagine.” “My husband...

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Belmont businesses hosted the annual Ferragosto Festival, which brought thousands of people to Arthur Avenue on Sunday. The festival is held to support local businesses in the Belmont section of the Bronx. Traditional Italian foods, including the fan-favorite sausage and peppers, were sold. Festival goers were also treated to live music and enterta...

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Celebrate your Italian Heritage with the Royals! Join us at The K on Sunday, October 1, at 2:10 p.m., for a Royals game against the New York Yankees. Take home a custom Italian-themed Royals hat with the purchase of a theme ticket. Italian-themed Royals hats will ONLY be distributed inside Gate A. Please arrive prior to the 2nd inning to receive a...

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The Belmont Business Improvement District is thrilled to welcome everyone back to the neighborhood for Ferragosto 2023 on Sunday, September 10th! Ferragosto is a special day in the community filled with Italian culture, delicious food, wonderful live entertainment, and great fun. Ferragosto is a way to convene our customers and supporters in a fest...

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The CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale, New York, will open their Main Stage Season 51 with A BRONX TALE: THE MUSICAL, running August 12 to 26 in their Noel S. Ruiz Theatre. “It's a family, it's a language, it's a neighborhood, it's a time period, it's a culture,” says John Mazzarella, Co-Director and Scenic Designer of A BRONX TALE.  Written by ...

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Arthur Avenue is one of the Bronx’s best known tourist destinations, a 12-block area filled with historic Italian American businesses since the first decades of the 20th century, but now showcasing an increasing number of Albanian and Mexican establishments as well. Can visitors embark on a comprehensive tour, including sightseeing and multiple din...

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It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and I’m on the line at Mike’s Deli – one of the best-known food stores and cafés in the Arthur Avenue Retail Market in Belmont, the area known as “the Little Italy of the Bronx” – deciding between an order of rice balls or eggplant rollatini to go with my dinner later that evening. The deli’s founder, the much-lo...

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A local cigar factory is partnering with an Academy Award-nominated actor from the Bronx to launch A Bronx Tale Cigar. La Casa Grande Cigars and actor Chazz Palminteri launched the cigar Wednesday in Little Italy. "I dedicate a cigar to my grandfather Cologio. He came to this country with nothing, and he made a life for himself and I thought that w...

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Longtime New York produce wholesaler and importer Sal Vacca, who died March 22, 2023, at the age of 93, appears to be one of those rare people who was universally respected and loved. “Sal was the nicest man I have ever met in my whole life… a true gentlemen,” said Thomas J. Tramutola of A&J Produce Corp., a wholesale operation located on the same...

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Current and former parishioners joined Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Espaillat, and the current and former pastors to celebrate the 125th anniversary of St. Philip Neri parish in the Bronx. Cardinal Dolan called St. Philip Neri “a grand parish on the Grand Concourse,” referring to the church’s location on one of the Bronx’s most i...

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