Customers Happy To Brave Long Lines For Italian Specialties On Arthur Ave
With all of the Christmas shopping going on, it’s important to remember all of the food. It’s a huge part of the celebration, and many people are making a special trip to the Bronx to get their staples. As CBS2’s Andrea Grymes explained, stepping foot on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx’s Little Italy, will make you feel like you’re back in the old count...
Holiday Greetings from the Italian American Museum
Dear Friends, at this time of our Annual Appeal, we have some very exciting news to share with you. The Italian American Museum is about to embark on a major expansion that will more than quadruple our current useable space. The new expansion and renovation will result in 6,500 square-feet of museum space. The Museum will span four levels, all link...
Sorbillo Proves He’s a Neapolitan Pizza Master at New Noho Restaurant
After years of Naples-inspired pizzas spreading across New York, an actual Naples-based pizza master has taken on New York City. Gino Sorbillo recently opened Gino Sorbillo Pizzeria on the Bowery in Noho with much fanfare. His pizzeria on the Via Dei Tribunali in Naples was founded by his grandparents in 1935, and is one of the most celebrated in I...
Creative New Dishes and Italian Classics at the Updated Olde Stone Mill
On the banks of the Bronx River in Tuckahoe, the beautiful Georgian style building that was built in the 1800's as a cotton mill and converted into a manufacturer of rubber goods and then to a pharmaceutical company was reinvented as a restaurant many years ago. About 10 years ago, under the ownership of Louis DiNapoli, owner of the popular Angelin...
Outdoor Presepe Napoletano in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn
If you’re planning to visit the spectacular Dyker Lights Christmas light displays in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, be sure to stop by John Miniero’s house on 14th Avenue, between 79th and 80th Streets, to see his wondrous annual outdoor prespio. The Neapolitan Christmas tradition has been a neighborhood favorite for many years and continues to amaze on...
Filippo Troisi (Legance): “The opening of our New York office is another significant milestone in our history”
Legance continues to grow and recently reinforced its international presence with a new office in New York. Filippo Troisi, Senior and Founding Partner, shares with us the firm's major breakthroughs in a 10 year success story. Leaders League. As Legance celebrates its 10th anniversary, what have been the most significant milestones in the firm's hi...
Vento Bistro brings coastal Italian cuisine to New Rochelle
Chef Francesco Coli is bringing the Southern Italian seas to this Sound Shore city. That is, much of the food he serves at the newly-opened Vento Bistro, at 282 Huguenot St., comes straight from those crystal blue waters. “I import a lot of the fish myself," Coli said. "I have direct contact with fisheries overseas," including in southeastern Italy...
Mario Ariemma, 89, successful entrepreneur and deli owner
It seemed like business as usual on Wednesday afternoon at Ariemma's Italian Deli in Dongan Hills. Customers were stopping in for signature sandwiches and homemade soups and placing catering orders for Christmas and New Year's. But a sign on the door indicated otherwise. "We will be closed for business on Saturday due to the passing of my dad, Mari...
Learn Italy: gli italiani e gli italo americani studieranno insieme a New York
Learn Italy Usa lancia un nuovo progetto che avvicina le nuove generazioni dei due lati dell’Atlantico. Come ha annunciato il suo presidente Massimo Veccia, nei prossimi mesi verranno conferite 5 borse di studio totali e 10 parziali a giovani per il corso di alta specializzazione “Made In & By Italy”, che per la prima volta sarà aperto congiuntamen...
East Harlem corner named for Vito Marcantonio, seven-term U.S. congressman
East Harlem’s hot spot for political players received an official city honor Sunday for one of the neighborhood’s most prominent leaders. The east side of Lexington Avenue and East 116th Street is now called Vito Marcantonio Lucky Corner, after the seven-term U.S. congressman who served the neighborhood between 1935 and 1951. City Council Speaker M...
The Espresso Boom in Manhattan: Which Cups Are Best, and Why?
I live in Manhattan. I drink gallons of espresso in Manhattan every year (even though each pour is very, very small!). Over the years, I have developed a list of my favorite Manhattan cafés for espresso—always remaining open, of course, to new places, in what can only be described as a post-Seattle Manhattan espresso boom. But one big espresso deta...
Mark Rylance in 'Farinelli and the King' on Broadway: Can opera save your sanity?
With “operatic” now a synonym for excessive grandiosity, and the demanding diva de rigueur for any opera, it is easy to forget the primal, visceral nature of the early years of the art. To paraphrase what is said in the fascinating new Broadway play “Farinelli and the King,” which opened here Sunday night, opera once was a much dirtier business. No...