Italian Staten Island (Images of America) by Andrew Paul Mele,James P. Molinaro

By Andrew Paul Mele,James P. Molinaro

the nice wave of eu immigration within the overdue nineteenth and early twentieth centuries introduced greater than 4 million Italians to the US. It was once one of many maximum mass emigrations in global heritage, and lots of settled in Staten Island. Following the outlet of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964, the island skilled one other nice inflow of Italian immigrants, this time from the opposite boroughs of latest York urban. This new wave used to be answerable for doubling the island inhabitants via the yr 2000. Italian american citizens are obvious in each avocation and in each one nook of Staten Island society, with achievers in schooling, company, govt, medication, and activities and leisure. Italian Staten Island chronicles the traditions, tradition, and history of Italian americans via greater than 2 hundred photographs.

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