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Italian NYC is one of the communities that defines New York City and the United States. The big wave of Italian immigration arrived between the 1850s and 1930s. Many Southern Italians came between 1880 and 1920.

Italian NYC News

March 21, 2022

Ongoing | Apr | Jun

Italian Standup Comedy

Italian American comic Sebastian Maniscalco brings his “Nobody Does This Tour” to:

Contemporary Art Fair

The Spring Affordable Art Fair of contemporary art under $10,000, is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Wed-Sun, Mar 23-27, 2022. From $30. 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇹

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Ongoing Italian NYC

Italian Art

Pier Paolo Calzolari: Painting as a Butterfly, new paintings made by the Italian Portuguese artist during pandemic isolation, is at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea, Mar 18 – Apr 23. marianneboeskygallery.com 🇮🇹🇵🇹

Italian Art

Angiola Gatti: Momenti di Luce, works by the Italian artist in ballpoint pen on canvas, is at Ryan Lee Gallery in Chelsea, Thu, Mar 17 – Apr 30. ryanleegallery.com 🇮🇹

Italian Art

Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres is an installation of very meditative Arte Povera porcelains made by the Italian artist at the Sèvres factory in France, at The Frick Collection in the Upper East Side, Thu, Mar 17 – Aug 28. 🇮🇹🇫🇷

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The Year in Italian NYC

April in Italian NYC

Italy + Senegal

Alessandra Belloni plays Southern Italian Folk music and Alioune Faye, a Griot (West African troubadour), plays Senegalese percussion at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens on Sun, Apr 3 at 1pm. $15. 🇮🇹🇸🇳

Blues Guitar

Mike Zito Band and Albert Castiglia play Blues guitar at the Iridium in the Times Square Theater District on Tue, Apr 12 at 8pm (6:30pm doors). $35. 🇨🇺🇮🇹

Lucia de Lammermoor

The Metropolitan Opera premieres a new “Lucia di Lammermoor” starring Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra and Mexican tenor Javier Camarena on Sat, Apr 23 at 8pm. From $30. 🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇷

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June in Italian NYC

Italian Jazz

Italian American guitarist Al Di Meola (Return to Forever) plays Jazz at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village, Tue-Sun, Jun 7 -12 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $40. 🇮🇹

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Previously in Italian NYC

Surrealism Beyond Borders is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park to Jan 30, 2022. 🇨🇺🇭🇹🇲🇶🇵🇷 | 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸

Lucio Pozzi: Time and Again 1974 / 2018 / 2021 is at Hal Bromm Gallery in the Financial District to Jan 25, 2022. 🇮🇹

New Year’s, based on the Roman calendar, is Jan 1. 🇮🇹

2021

Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks play Hot Jazz for Swing dancing at Bond 45 Downstairs in the Times Square Theater District on Mondays and Tuesdays from 8-11pm. $25 + $25 minimum 🇮🇹

Christmas, the world’s most popular Italian holiday is Sat, Dec 25. 🇮🇹

The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhall’s directorial debut based on Elena Ferrante’s Italian novel, opens at IFC Center in the West Village on Fri, Dec 17 with director Q&As Fri, Dec 17 at 8pm. $13. 🇮🇹

Chris Botti’s 17th Holiday Residency is at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village, Dec 6, 2021 – Jan 2, 2022 (including Christmas and New Year’s Eve) at 8 & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $55. 🇮🇹

COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet is at The Joyce in Chelsea for two weeks, Tue-Sun, Nov 16-28. From $26. joyce.org 🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇸

Tanino Liberatore: Poetry Interrupted! is at Philippe Labaune Gallery in Chelsea to Sat, Nov 13. philippelabuane.com 🇮🇹

Chris Botti plays Jazz Pop at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, on Fri, Nov 12. 🇮🇹

Vera Girivi is at Sargent’s Daughters in Two Bridges, Manhattan to Nov 7. sargentsdaughters.com 🇮🇹

Lino Tagliapietra: Journey (blown glass) is at Heller Gallery in Chelsea to Sat, Nov 6. hellergallery.com 🇮🇹

Tatiana Trouvé: From March to May at Gagosian Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side ends Oct 30. gagosian.com 🇮🇹

The E/AB Editions Artists’ Book Fair is virtual Oct 18-31. FREE eabfair.org 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇱🇮🇹🇲🇽

The Medici: Portraits & Politics 1512-1570 is at The Met Fifth Avenue through Oct 11, 2021. From $12. 🇮🇹

The 59th New York Film Festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Fri, Sep 24 – Oct 10. 🇦🇴🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇴🇫🇷🇮🇳🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸🇺🇸

The Feast of San Gennaro is in Manhattan’s Little Italy Sep 16-26. FREE. 🇮🇹

Moschino shows offsite at New York Fashion Week on Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 2pm. 🇮🇹

Italian Archive

Italian Festivals NYC

New York City’s biggest Italian festival is Columbus Day and the Columbus Day Parade. Visitors love the Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan’s Little Italy. The Giglio Feast in Williamsburg is pretty cool too.

Italian New York City

Italian food has become American food. Classical music, opera and Roman Catholicism are Italian culture.

NYC has many Little Italys including:

  • Little Italy, Manhattan
  • Arthur Avenue, The Bronx
  • Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Today Bensonhurst, Brooklyn is one of our biggest Little Italys. Staten Island also has a large Italian community. We are everywhere really.

Italian New Yorkers

Italian Culture

Classical music, opera and ballet have Italian origins. Italian fashion is popular. In the U.S. Italian culture has largely become U.S. American culture. Everybody eats pasta and pizza these days.

The Romans absorbed Greek culture from Greek communities in Southern Italy, and spread this culture around the Mediterranean. When Rome fell, the culture was preserved in Spain by Jewish poets working for Muslim sultans and Christian kings. The Italian Renaissance made Italian culture a pan-European culture. This culture took over the world during the Colonial Era.

The influence of Roman Catholicism is profound, even in traditions that we no longer see as religious. Christmas is just one example of an Italian tradition that has lost its religious meaning.

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Little Italy NYC

New York City has many Little Italys. The most popular are the Little Italy neighborhood in Downtown, Manhattan, and Arthur Avenue in The Bronx.

Little Italy, New York City (Patrid Poendl/Dreamstime)
Little Italy, New York City (Patrid Poendl/Dreamstime)

Little Italy, Manhattan

  • Little Italy, Downtown
  • Italian East Harlem

Little Italy, The Bronx

  • Arthur Avenue
  • Morris Park

Little Italy, Brooklyn

  • Bensonhurst
  • Dyker Heights
  • Carroll Gardens
  • Italian Williamsburg

Little Italy, Queens

  • Ozone Park
  • Howard Beach
  • Middle Village

Little Italy, Staten Island

  • Rosebank

Italian Heritage Day

Italian Heritage Day was formerly Columbus Day.

We now know that Columbus was evil. Even his Spanish sponsors called him to Spain, stripped his wealth and power, and jailed him for how he abused Indigenous Americans.

However, Columbus Day was started in the United States to discourage the lynching of Italian Americans after an international lynching for which the US Government even paid reparations to Italy.

The celebration transformed “Italians” into “Americans.” Nobody thinks of Italian Americans as “others” any more. That’s why it is cherished. We are proud of our Italian heritage, but who can be proud to be represented by pure evil?

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