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by Amy Plitt   It looks like the fight to preserve a Brooklyn church has come to an end: The New York Times reports that Our Lady of Loreto, a turn-of-the-20th-century Catholic church in Brownsville, will be demolished, per plans on file with the Departmant of Buildings. That move makes way for low-income housing to eventually rise on the si...

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Brian Leth made a name for himself as the chef of Brooklyn favorite Vinegar Hill House, where he cooked for four years and helped shape the restaurant's stellar reputation.   After leaving Vinegar Hill House in 2013, the chef, who also worked at Prune and Blue Hill, did a brief stint last year in Manhattan at the short-lived Wine Disciples Enotec...

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This June, in honor of the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, three Friars from the Pontifical Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, in Padua, Italy, will bring three distinct relics to three different corners of the English-speaking world.   We are thrilled and honored to bring Saint Anthony of Padua, in the form of a holy relic, to the New Yor...

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L'Italian American Boxing Awards, evento che rappresenta il perfetto mix tra sport e cultura ideato e organizzato da New York Italians, ANPS USA e Fordham University, domenica sera ha visto la sua prima edizione nella storica palestra di New York Gleason's Gym. Nel 1937 l'italiano Peter Robert Gagliardi inglesizzò il suo nome in Bobby Gleason, per...

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Il richiamo alla mitica Graziella è abbastanza esplicito: una bicicletta piccola, pieghevole, con grande cura per ogni dettaglio, dalla sella al campanello. Un oggetto comodo per chi vive in grandi città e ha bisogno di una due ruote piccola che occupi poco spazio, in modo da poter essere portata in appartamento o in ufficio per non correre il risc...

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Yesterday kicked off the 2015 Feast of Santa Rosalia in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. A neighborhood staple for 40 years, the celebration features nightly entertainment, games, rides, and plenty of delicious food. The festivities continue until Sunday, August 30th. Enjoy the many amusements, but please don't forget the true reason for the celebration and...

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Saturday, October 26, 2013. Save the date to join with the smiling faces from the past and our current members as we recreate the atmosphere of a Cracotan feast day celebration that was done by our ancestors. This year's Reunion features a grand dinner dance in the tradition of our ancestors on the eve of the Feast of San Vincenzo.   Picture...

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The house my husband and I were lucky enough to buy in Carroll Gardens came with an Our Lady of Mt. Carmel; a large statue of Mary holding baby Jesus enclosed in a heavenly blue dome. It had been cemented to the ground because the first statue had been stolen during Carroll Gardens' more crime ridden days (God help you if you're going around steali...

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New York's Luhring Augustine is to present "The Minus Objects 1965-1966″, and exhibition of early works by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. The exhibition will be on display at Luhring Augustine's Bushwick space until 11 May 2014.   The Minus Objects – first exhibited in 1966, in the artist's studio in Turin – comprise a group of disp...

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"It was hot and humid that July day in1917, and the neighborhood odors were floating along on top of the muggy air.... Big Gino and his friend Franzini were walking to the bank to deposit the cash Big Gino had from yesterday's ice wagon routes. They stepped off the curb at the corner to cross the street. "Bruno, the teamster driving the loaded bee...

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