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Italian American Brooklyn

The Italian community in Dyker Heights, New York

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The Italians in Dyker Heights, New York

The story of the Italians in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn: postwar settlement, 13th Avenue bakeries, parish life, and the famous Christmas lights tradition.

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The Italian community in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

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The Italians in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Bensonhurst held 150,000 Italian Americans in 1980, the largest Italian community in New York City. Here's how Sicilians and Neapolitans built 18th Avenue, and what remains…

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The Atlas of Home app

One day, a child will ask, what were they like?

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VoicesThe voice you cannot afford to lose.
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