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And now, Ferdinando’s has closed. Last month its owner Francesco “Frank” Buffa announced the immediate closing of the 121-year-old focacceria on Instagram. This is a real loss. There are many “old school” Italian restaurants in New York City, but few Sicilian ones. Between 1907 and 1910, my maternal grandparents came to American from small towns near Naples and settled in [...]
I was going through some old family papers recently and chanced upon my father’s New York City peddler’s license. It is a document not just from another time, but also another world. He is wearing a tan Big Apple hat and a black shirt and stares straight at the camera, looking incredibly fresh and handsome. The address on the license [...]
