Giant Of Industry, Creator Of Modern Commuter Ferry Arthur Imperatore Sr Dies At 95
After terrorists crashed two planes into the Twin Towers, Arthur E. Imperatore Sr.’s NY Waterway ferries hustled 150,000 people out of New York. When a commuter jet made an emergency landing on the Hudson River, Imperatore’s ferries rushed to the scene, helping to rescue everyone on board. Imperatore, the “visionary entrepreneur” who is credited wi...
From Viareggio to Brooklyn, the Universe Inside Angelica Bergamini
It is the end of 2016. In America, Trump has just been elected President. Angelica Bergamini has lived in Brooklyn since 2006. She’s an artist from Viareggio who relocated to New York. After the elections, she began producing a new kind of work: her recurrent motif now takes the form of a root. A sort of flight from the climate of uncertainty preva...
How an Eataly Executive Spends His Sundays
Dino Borri comes from the northern Italian town of Bra, the home of Bra cheese and the Slow Food movement. He worked as an event coordinator for the movement’s international organization, which is based there, until 2008. Around that time, he was tapped to be a project manager for Eataly, established a year earlier in Turin. Mr. Borri became the fi...
La Perla Inks Sublease in SoHo
Cushman & Wakefield arranged a seven-year sublease on behalf of La Perla, a luxury fashion company, at Crown Acquisitions’ 120 Prince St. in SoHo. A Cushman & Wakefield team of Eric Le Goff, James Downey and Danielle Stiefel represented La Perla. Compass’ Robin Abrams represented the sublandlord, Saje. “Even during these uncertain times, La Perla w...
Snaidero USA re-opens its New York flagship showroom after a stunning redesign by Italian architect, Mario Mazzer
Snaidero USA has re-opened its New York Flagship showroom after completing an ambitious redesign that ushers in a new direction for the company. After several decades of activity in North America that saw Snaidero USA become the #1 importer of European kitchens, company Founder and President, Dario Snaidero envisioned a new style of showroom. He wa...
Urban Vision, la Milano Fashion Week sbarca a Times Square
Forte del successo ottenuto nell’edizione di luglio, Urban Vision – media Company leader nel fundraising finalizzato alla tutela del patrimonio culturale e alla riqualificazione di aree urbane – e Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana rinnovano la partnership per promuovere l’appuntamento della Milano Fashion Week in programma dal 22 al 28 settembre...
Il Made in Italy va protetto: nuove proposte per rilanciare l’economia italiana negli USA
Negli ultimi mesi, in Italia e negli Stati Uniti si studiano nuove misure di supporto ai mercati coinvolti nelle relazioni commerciali tra i due paesi come conseguenza degli avvenimenti accaduti nel corso del 2020 per proteggere e rilanciare entrambe le economie. “L’export di prodotti italiani negli USA continua ad essere buono”, racconta Antonino...
Italian Neighborhoods See Mass Exodus From New York
Pre-pandemic: a recently common term in our uncommon world which refers to things as they were in our global society before March 11th, 2020 when the Novel Coronavirus Disease was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Prior to March of this year, about eight years prior, I began photo-documenting Italian neighborhoods all across Ame...
Judge Anthony Cannataro, Civil Court of the City of New York and Justice of the New York State Supreme Court
I am the Citywide Administrative Judge for the Civil Court of the City of New York (one of the three citywide courts along with Family Court and Criminal Court). The Civil Court operates in all five borough and is best known for our housing part (the court that landlords go to when they seek to evict their tenants and to litigate other housing matt...
A New Brand Celebrates Easy, Breezy Sicilian Style
Every summer, like clockwork, New York-based artist Gabriella Picone’s Instagram account fills up with dreamy imagery of Sicily—or, more specifically, Lipari, the Eolian island from which her family hails. Sand, sky, sketchbooks, seashells (often arranged into faces that she affectionately calls “shellfies”), and craggy rocks overlooking the Medite...
Webinar on financial support available to Italian businesses by Simest
Join the Italian Chambers Network in North America on August 5th, 2020 for a conversation with Carlo De Simone on the “Innovative Toolkit for International Economic Recovery” hosted by SIMEST – the Italian public entity that supports enterprises through their whole expansion cycle abroad, from the initial assessment of opening up to a new market, t...
Paola Antonelli: da Sassari direttrice del MoMa di New York
È nata in Sardegna ma ha trascorso la maggior parte della sua vita lontano dall’Isola. Paola Antonelli è oggi valutata una delle persone più autorevoli a livello mondiale nel settore dell’arte. È la curatrice del Dipartimento di Architettura e Design e Direttrice della Ricerca e dello Sviluppo al Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) di New York. "Sono nata...