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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

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

Ongoing

Vince Giordano. Courtesy the artist.

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 🇮🇹

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

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

Coming Soon

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. 🇮🇹

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

Italian comic Sebastian Maniscalco brings his “Nobody Does This Tour” to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn on Wed, Dec 29 at 7pm. From $65. 🇮🇹

Previously in Italian NYC

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
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