By Rachel Holliday Smith   A specialty gelato and dessert shop from Italy by way of Park Slope is planning its second Brooklyn location in Crown Heights inside a former doughnut shop on Bergen Street, owners told DNAinfo New York. L'Albero dei Gelati, currently in business on Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street across from the J.J. Byrne P...

Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen's Church on Summit and Hicks streets was filled with people celebrating their Italian heritage. The parish, marking its Sesquicentennial (150th year), celebrated its history as a center for helping Italian immigrants from the time it was founded in 1866.   "'Dream Anew,' as did our parents and grandparents upon arri...

by Congregation of Maria S.S. Addolorata   The Congregation of Maria S.S. Addolorata would like to announce that this years' procession in honor of our Patron Saint of Mola di Bari will take place on Sunday, September 11th.   The procession will depart from Sacred Heart–St. Stephens Church (Summitt and Hicks Street) Carroll Garde...

This June, in honor of the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, Father Paolo Floretta will bring a holy relic of St. Anthony of Padua from his Basilica in Padua, Italy. Father Paolo will visit four dioceses in the Tri-State area: the New York Archdiocese, The Brooklyn/Queens Diocese, The Paterson, New Jersey Diocese and The Bridgeport, Connecticut Dioc...

"There Goes the Neighborhood" Author/storyteller Michele Carlo presents THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD: a solo show about gentrification and the "tipping point" of one Brooklyn neighborhood, at the East Village's City Lore Gallery, Wednesday, March 23rd @ 7:30pm. On Wednesday, March 23rd, at 7:30pm, author/performer Michele Carlo will perform her...

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Long-awaited — and equally long-delayed — Italian cultural center "Il Centro" will open its doors in Bath Beach in July. Workers just have to put the finishing touches on a gymnasium floor and pool and get some final inspections, according a member of the Federation of Italian-American Organizations, which is building the center.   "The...

In recent years, pizza has gotten plenty of au courant twists, with offbeat toppings, local ingredients and deep-fried modernizations dominating the scene, but calzones have largely been neglected in the pie case.   Now, a few ballsy pizzerias—including Roberta's, Motorino and Brooklyn Central—are defying the tired cheese-sauce-dough norm, s...

by Jeanine Ramirez   A five-story building opening in Bensonhurst this fall will be called "Il Centro," which means "the center" in Italian. "Italians in Italy congregate in a piazza," said Carlo Scissura, president of the Federation of Italian American Organization. "So here, we don't have land, but we have a center."   The Fede...

by Kevin D'Angelo The Society of Our Lady of the Snow, a cultural nucleus of Italian-American tradition in Greenpoint / Williamsburg is marking its 125th anniversary this year. The celebration begins on Saturday, July 27th, with a 7:00PM candlelight procession, from its hall at 410 Graham Avenue to St. Francis de Paola Church. Over the next ten da...