Ellis Island Museum to Update the Story of Immigration in America
by David W. Dunlap Everywhere in America, immigration is an unending story. Everywhere, that is, except at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, where the story ends in 1954, when the immigrant processing and detention station there was closed. Next month, however, the museum will leap more than 60 years forward with the opening of...
Italian American Community Center to hold 15th Annual Festa Italiana
For the 15th consecutive year the Italian American Community Center will feature its Festa Italiana with a variety of programs ranging from international entertainment, great Italian food and activities for young and old. The Festa Italiana will run on July 16, 17 and 18 on the ground of the IACC on Manitou Road in Gates. In pursuit of its mission...
A Look at the 19th Annual Festa di San Donato in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Friday after work, I made my way to Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the 19th Annual Feast of San Donato. Organized by Francesca Mazza (and her gracious family) the ceremony took place outside their beautiful home at 158 Conselyea Street. Normally held on August 7th, this year's celebration was postponed a few weeks because Franca and her family...
IAWA’s Open Reading Series–Saturday, April 9, 2016–Featuring Wendy Galgan and Tony Gloeggler
WHERE: Sidewalk Café, 94 Avenue A (6th Street) East Village, NYC-10009 WHEN: Saturday, April 9, 2016 @ 5:30 – 7:30 pm WHO: Wendy Galgan directs the Women's Poetry Initiative at St. Francis College in Brooklyn and edits Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters there. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly and The AFCU Journal,...
Brooklyn church hosts special mass for victims of Italy earthquake
Brooklyn's oldest Italian church community stood in solidarity with the victims affected by the devastating earthquake in central Italy. Saint Stephen Roman Catholic Church in Carroll Gardens held a special mass for the victims Sunday evening. The parish collected donations to help provide relief to people in Italy who are in need.&nb...
Can Michael Grimm Win Re-election Now?
by Ross Barkan Despite threatening to throw a reporter off a balcony and allegedly having sex in a wine bar bathroom, Congressman Michael Grimm was arguably a favorite to win re-election at this time last week. But Monday's indictment on a slew of wire, mail fraud and other charges badly damages the Republican's chances of survivi...
New Rochelle Public Library Presents Programs For Italian Heritage
"The Calitrani Immigrants of America" will be the topic of a free talk by historian Mario Toglia at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4. The village of Calitri is in the Avellino province of southern Italy. The lecture is the result of Toglia's personal quest to discover his ancestors. Toglia encourages the audience to become involved in the discovery of t...
Italian American Museum Gives a Tenant More Time to Move
by Mireya Navarro An elderly woman whose pending eviction from her apartment in Manhattan's Little Italy by the Italian American Museum was denounced by housing advocates has until June 30 to leave under an agreement between the two parties. The woman, Adele Sarno, 85, the daughter of Italian immigrants, went to Housing Court last mon...
Mark Assini Launches Congressional Campaign
Republican Town Supervisor Mark Assini made it official on Tuesday night: He is running for Congress again next year against longtime Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter of Fairport. Assini kicked off his campaign at the Italian-American Community Center in Gates. Assini ran against Slaughter in 2014, when he lost to the incumbent by just under 9...
Irish and Italians in New York City: 'Love-hate' story revealed
Over 130 people packed the Italian Cultural Foundation at the hilltop Casa Belvedere mansion on Grymes Hill Tuesday evening to hear author Paul Moses discuss his book, "An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians." The event was the most well-attended book presentation and lecture in Casa Belvedere's history, or...
The Italian American Table
The invention of Italian food culture in America Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. From generational conflicts resolved...
The Eastchester Italian American Citizens Club showed off its new look.
by Chris McHugh The Eastchester Italian American Citizens Club showed off its new look. Les & Connie Vaccaro and Peter & Christine Telesco pitched in to help give the club an Amalfi Coast/Tuscan Vineyard feel with its new murals on the walls. Read more Source: http://bronxville.patch.com