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Re: Good sites to visit in Little Italy - NYC
[Re: mobcleve]
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08/10/21 10:11 PM
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128 Mott St in now nearby Chinatown is the fictional Genco Olive Oil.
For food, and a better experience, I'd visit the Bronx Little Italy of Arthur Ave.
Umberto's moved since the hit. It was on Mulberry and Hester. Some other place there now.
SPQR gone long time now. Last I knew, it was a christmas tree shop or something.
If you're set on staying downtown, Butch-The-Hat's place is La Mela. Tony's Nuthouse is now something else on the Mulberry 270s.
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Re: Good sites to visit in Little Italy - NYC
[Re: Malavita]
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08/11/21 06:08 PM
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The first time i was in NYC, i immediately went to Little Italy to have something to eat. I don't remember which restaurant it was. i started talking in Italian to the waiter but the guy was latino and he did'nt understand so i disappointedly switched to English. So much for my Godfather fantasy... The food was not great.
During another trip, I went to a place I fogot the name of in Northern Little Italy (near the contempary art museum which i had visited) and I remember the place looked a bit dodgy. Maybe it was just me but I felt a weird vibe. I thought the joint was mobbed up. I looked it up and it turned out the place was previously run by Louis Consalvo (De Cav made guy) and i would'nt be suprised if it's still somehow connected to some wiseguy. That was cafetal near Old St Pat’s. Not sure if that one is still open. Emilio Ballato on Houston St is very good, and has an old throwback look to it. On weekends it’s tough to get into due to being popular with actors, Obama, etc.
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Re: Good sites to visit in Little Italy - NYC
[Re: mobcleve]
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08/12/21 05:48 AM
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Cafetal, that's the name ! Weird place that was.
SalB, I actually speak Italian and Spanish and while it is true these languages have many similarities, I can assure you that a spanish speaker wouldn't understand much if he is spoken to in Italian at full speed (and vice versa). Now if it's written or if you pronounce every word slowly and clearly, it's another story, but in a normal conversation, it's more complicated. The fact that i speak Italian with a French accent probably didn't help though.
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Re: Good sites to visit in Little Italy - NYC
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08/13/21 05:30 PM
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Cafetal, that's the name ! Weird place that was.
SalB, I actually speak Italian and Spanish and while it is true these languages have many similarities, I can assure you that a spanish speaker wouldn't understand much if he is spoken to in Italian at full speed (and vice versa). Now if it's written or if you pronounce every word slowly and clearly, it's another story, but in a normal conversation, it's more complicated. The fact that i speak Italian with a French accent probably didn't help though. True. About thirty years ago I was trying to tell these two Puerto Rican women I would be back in twenty minutes. They didn't understand what I was saying so I tapped on my watch and said "venti minuti". They understood that and we all laughed.
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Re: Good sites to visit in Little Italy - NYC
[Re: mobcleve]
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08/14/21 04:08 AM
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I took my brother down to Mulberry St. in 2001, before they changed the facade of the Ravenite and we were standing in front of it talking about Gotti and the Crew when this old man walked up to us and told us." I remember them, when they used hang out here." Needless to say we started pumping him for stories and got some cool anecdotes out of him, it could have been Lefty Ruggiero's son for all we knew. You're not going to see that too much anymore, it's all hipsters now. When I went for San Gennaro, I was eating a sausage and peppers sandwich on a stoop by Umberto's and some residents of the building came home and I had to move off the stoop to let them up. As they're passing, one dude looked down at me and fucking sneered like he was a superior metro-sexual. Word to my mother, the first thing I thought was "Motherfucker, do you know what went down here, not 50 feet from where your standing." I'll will drag your bitch ass off this fucking stoop and leave you where Crazy Joe died but being with my wife and not wanting to spend the night in the Tombs, I digressed.
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Re: Good sites to visit in Little Italy - NYC
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08/14/21 10:38 AM
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Umberto's moved up the street and other side from the Gallo hit. Da Gennaro now on corner of Hester.
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