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 ...

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 ...

BENSONHURST, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A beloved Brooklyn record shop that’s been part of the Bensonhurst community for nearly 60 years is preparing to close its doors. Silvana Conte’s parents opened SAS ...

I am a granddaughter of a proud Italian-American man with a strong native New Yorker-personality. I was raised with a quiet reverence for fresh bread—and a louder reverence for the people who made it.

Bensonhurst, a middle class Italian enclave for generations, is booming with Chinese immigrants. A similar transformation occurred in Manhattan’s Little Italy decades earlier. Bensonhurst is now ...