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 ...

Hundreds of elated Italians flooded the streets of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn for a victorious celebration after their country’s monumental Euro Cup victory over England on Sunday night. Wild video of the ...

Step aside Santa Rosalia — a new religious procession is about to wend its way through Bensonhurst. Members of the Associazione Culturale Pugliese Figlia Maria S.S. Addolorata of Saint Athanasius ...

A Bensonhurst record store is going strong after over 50 years of keeping Brooklyn residents in touch with their Italian heritage. SAS Italian Records opened in 1967 and houses more than 3,000 CDs and ...

Yesterday, as Italy defeated England to win the European championship, Italian Brooklyn headed for Caffè Sportivo on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst. The entire block was cordoned off; a truck had been ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I’d rather have someone stab me in the heart,” a Bensonhurst patriarch bellows when he learns his daughter has fallen for a black man in Spike Lee’s 1991 Jungle Fever. In the late ’80s and early ’90s ...