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From Italy to Staten Island: A South Beach family’s 120-year legacy of hard work and tradition

Before the boardwalk crowds and summer-day bustle came to define South Beach, its story was written by immigrants who carried little more than trade skills and a stubborn resolve to build the American dream with family at its center.

For Anne Navarria, 73, a resident of the Shore Acres section of South Beach, that history is not a distant chapter but a living inheritance, etched in the lives of her grandparents, Anna Macchia and Luigi Cassano.

Source: https://www.silive.com

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