New York's Barclays Center was transformed into the heart of Italian-ness on Italian Heritage Night. During the Brooklyn Nets vs. Houston Rockets game, more than 400 Italians packed the stands, helping to create a unique atmosphere between sports passion and national pride. The event organized by IBBL - Italian Basketball Brand League in collaborat...
READ MOREIn the brisk chill of a January midday sun, a row of lecterns with microphones sits in front of the Italian consulate with dozens of people young and old lining up behind them, waiting for their turn. Each speaker reads names, perhaps a dozen, before the next one picks up where they left off. They are the names of the nearly 10,000 Jews who were de...
READ MOREVERRAZZANO 500, the yearlong celebration of Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York ended on a historic December day with a rare viewing of Giovanni da Verrazzano’s Cellere Codex. The quincentennial of Verrazzano’s entering NY Harbor begun on April 17, 2024, with a Staten Island Ferry journey where Italian American leaders gazed, essenti...
READ MOREAfter a year of work, the project has taken shape. Wednesday evening, at the Consulate General of Italy in New York, I³/NYC – the Italian Innovators Initiative, a nonprofit organization that aims to connect Italian start-ups that want to enter the New York market and venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, scientists, and companies willing to support t...
READ MOREBrooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso hosted the Italian Heritage and Culture Proclamation Ceremony on Oct. 30 at FIAO's Il Centro Cultural Community Center in Bath Beach, recognizing the contributions of Italian Americans to the borough. Among the honorees was Frank Seddio, a retired Surrogate's Court Judge, former Brooklyn Bar Association pr...
READ MOREThe BBasketteers team Amelia Tuzzolino, Marianna Angelina Delfaus, Giuseppe Sylvester, and Massimo Edwards, the four NYC based Italian-American players, just returned from Sicily with a wealth of emotions and memories. From October 3rd to 6th, they participated in the Trofeo Coni Estate/Coni Trophy Summer edition, the youth Olympic styled games org...
READ MOREAfter closing for three years due to renovations, the Italian American Museum in Little Italy has officially reopened and is ready to welcome new visitors at its 151 Mulberry St. location. The museum had undergone a significant expansion, making its previous space six times larger. It now has four levels, a 50-seat auditorium, an atrium with a 20-f...
READ MOREGracie Mansion hosted a long-running annual reception celebrating Italian heritage, attended by various elected officials, including mayor Eric Adams, and representatives from local Italian cultural societies. Also in attendance was the Consul General of Italy in New York, Fabrizio Di Michele, who delivered a speech centered on Columbus Day, taking...
READ MOREThe Consulate General of Italy in New York and Rai-Radiotelevisione Italiana organised a special event at their Park Avenue headquarters dedicated to 100 years of radio and 70 years of Italian television, in collaboration with Rai Teche and Rai Fiction and under the patronage of the Mike Bongiorno Foundation. The evening was opened by Consul Genera...
READ MOREITALEA’s marathon in New York continues with a second event hosted by ENIT. The Italian National Tourism Agency has made available the space of Piazza Italia, at the corner of Madison Avenue and 44th Street, to facilitate dialogue between Italian tour operators and American tour agents so that “root trips” are best organized. “We had to participate...
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