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 ...

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 ...

After 10 minutes in Bensonhurst, you quickly realize any stigma attached to the old neighborhood is gone. This is a very different place than 1989 when racial tensions put this Italian and Jewish ...

Italians in Bensonhurst — whoever heard of such a thing? Brooklyn Studio Secondary School on 21st Avenue in Bensonhurst — once considered the Little Italy of Brooklyn — welcomed 11 newcomers from the ...

Bensonhurst, the southern Brooklyn neighborhood, was known as a middle-class, Italian-American enclave for much of the 20th century. Strong remnants of that identity remain, but its demographics are ...

"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] ...