Ilario Bianchi opens the door of S.A.S. Italian Records and heads straight to the back of the store to snag a copy of his favorite weekly Italian magazine: Cronaca Vera. At the counter, Louise Baslie ...
MAYBE it’s not a moveable feast after all. Dates are in doubt for a popular Bensonhurst Italian festival after the mayor’s office ignored local leaders’ pleas to start the party a week early.
Bensonhurst revelers feasted and celebrated the neighborhood’s Italian heritage at the 40th-annual 18th Avenue Feast, a cherished borough tradition that kicked off on Aug. 20 and will rage on through ...
The tides of New York City’s ever-shifting demographics have changed particularly rapidly in Brooklyn’s residential enclave of Bensonhurst. Once known as Kings County’s Little Italy for its large ...
Loyal customers are getting ready to say goodbye to a beloved Italian record store in Bensonhurst. SAS Italian Records is closing its doors for good after nearly six decades. Silvana Conte's parents ...
Before the Italian-American exodus from Bensonhurst, only Italian food vendors participated in the annual 10-day Feast of Santa Rosalia–Brooklyn’s version Before the Italian-American exodus from ...
When the Sicilian bakery Vilabate Alba Pasticceria opened 40 years ago on 18th Avenue, workers would buy their lunch and do grocery shopping at a salumeria down the block. But now the family-run ...
"It’s the same thing that happened when the Italians came in the 1960s and 1970s and bought from Jewish people," he said. "Bensonhurst has always been an immigrant neighborhood and now [the Chinese] ...
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