God Bless Little Italy. This neighborhood and its people helped build this city. 🇮🇹🇺🇸 whatever we have left of Little Italy needs to remain and be saved. 💯
You can tell you take a lot of pride in your family heritage and continuing the family business in these changing times. I hope the locals appreciate your sincerity.
The ethnic shops that have been disappearing for the last 25 or more years is a great loss for all of us. Quality and variety of food has disappeared as well. Italian, German, Greek and many more as a kid I loved when my mom would take me shopping and visit these stores as well as the city markets in Baltimore, it is sad to see them go…. I will be following them soon
Travel a bit more. Little Italy still exists in S. Philadelphia. In fact the Italian Market on S 9th St is still very much there. It's the same street Rocky Balboa ran on in the first Rocky movie.
Paul, I just watched the 10 episodes. Outstanding job covering what has to have been one of the most iconic and unique areas of NYC. I was a partner in a Wall Street firm in charge of our ops in Philly, San Fran, Los Angeles, and my biggest operation, Chicago. I spent a week a month in NYC over the 80's and 90's. What a great time to be in that business and an even better time to be in NYC. It's sad to see what's happened on Mulberry. I'll have the memories to treasure for as long as I live. You really captured the essence of some of what I witnessed and felt while enjoying Little Italy. I was made a partner in 1980, and the firm had several dinners in my honor over a long weekend. The first was in Little Italy. A night I remember like it was last month. Brilliant work by you. So sad to see this treasure get uprooted like this. I know that makes me sound old. Hey I am OLD, so it's all good. Cheers
@@TheRange7 thanks for the kind words! NYC is all about the people now. They’ve robbed everything else from us. That’s why I had to document these people, my friends, who are still here and make nyc great. Real NYers who were born here like myself. Not the imposters, posers, and clout chasers who roam the city now.
@@PaulStoneFilms You're welcome. All the people I was lucky enough to work with from NYC over my career were lifelong New Yorkers as well. The genuine goods. Some of the nicest and best people I've ever known in my long life. Take care Paul.
I grew up on Mulberry street, as a child my mom would take me in DiPalo's (1960's) as she went cheese shopping, you can smell the fresh cheese in the air stepping into the store. A treasure for sure. Little Italy isn't what it used to be, it's shrinking! Businesses have come and gone. I literally grew up in the kitchen at Angelo's restaurant as my uncle was the cook there for many years. Everyone spoke Italian in the stores and on the streets. I am proud to say I grew up in Little Italy! I go back from time to time. Got to get my pastries and gelato.
Louie is an absolute 💯 gentleman , my godfather Jonny Fretta introduced me to him years ago .. remember when he moved to location he's at now from across the street .. Worked soooo hard to make his store just right!! Good family.
@@tedkeenan3341 by raising rents to owners of stores and restaurants that they know they can't afford so they can rent to chain restaurants who have the resources to pay
People always say that when it comes home to roost but for those buying they have a dream too. Time moves on and nothing remains constant. It's life...
Same stuff has happened in Philly and Baltimore. Luckily PHL still has a terrific cheese shop in S. Philly called DiBruno's. They also have a shop in Center City.
Powerful video. I’m fourth generation Italian American whose relatives all came through Ellis Island and settled in Little Italy. I live in the suburbs of Wash DC and the next time I’m in NYC, I’ll definitely visit and shop DiPalo’s 🇮🇹🇺🇸
Amazing story. Beautiful to see that although born in the US,he holds into his heritage and culture. ❤️ what an a magnificent deli. The stock alone is worth hundreds of thousands. Beautiful store. Such a shame Americans don’t value or understand good food.
Brilliant. Simply a superlative production and presentation. Di Palo's is perfect. Their mozzarella, tomato and prosciutto hero is the stuff of legends. Parisi Bakery is also fantastic. But the Di Palo prosciutto is otherworldly...and the way their ingredients meld is unexplainable.
This is a great representation of what is wrong with this country today. God bless this man and his family. I’ve been in DiPalo’s and it is a damn shame what has happened. He is so emotional that he struggles to speak at times.
This place is the best, I would get all my cheeses there, the fresh ricotta would be delivered every morning so I could make ricotta ice cream . Love this place love love love love it. Signed Adrian Nigro pastry assistant at Monuz restaurant back in the day
So many mom and pop stores across the boroughs that have been there for generations....gone...all gone, and with it the soul and charm of the neighborhood and surrounding community. Mr. DiPalo is right, and so was his great grandma.
I just found your series & started watching this episode. I just learned ..... why my Grandma, whose family immigrated to Chicago in 1916, used the same word for the bathroom. I never knew the origin. Thank you! I can't wait to watch the whole series 😊👍
I used to work in that area, and would stop at DiPalo's and other Italian shops on my way home. I left NYC in 2016 and I miss it terribly. But my friends tell me that what I loved is dying out. this makes me so sad.
I have never been to New York I would love to go to Little Italy, and stop at DI Palo’s and go crazy buying and eating everything I could yum looks fantastically delicious.
"overtake" what year are you in? Plenty of chinatown restaurants have closed down and plenty more to come. They can't afford rent either. They're in queens or Brooklyn. Authentic cantonese food, better off in Canada.
The US government never stopped Italian immigrants in 1963. They did end country quotas giving Southern (Italian), Eastern European and other immigrants easier access to the US. At the same time more Italians found it easier to find work in other EU countries and still be close to Italy.
If we actually had intelligent people running things they would wave real estate taxes on businesses like this. They're quick to put up historical markers but letting businesses like this fade into history is like losing fabrics that keep New York City together. Places like this are just as important as the Statue of Liberty.
Went there many times for chicken cutlet, prosciutto, mozzarella, peppers on a semolina hero .NYC under Bloomberg became all about money, making a city for just the rich, everyone else was left to wither.
Why is it sad? It's called assimilation. Italians Americans became just Americans and moved up the socioeconomic ladder and moved into the suburbs. That's what this country is all about, and that's the way it should be.
In another decade, if things don't drastically change, it'll all be high-end shops and top-dollar apartment rentals, with a sprinkling of Starbucks-type corporate business. All things must pass. I'll bet the Native Americans who once occupied the island we call Manhattan would never recognize the place now;
NYC is the last city in America to have these ethnic neighborhoods and districts. I was fortunate enough to be there very often back in the 80's and 90's. I got to experience the neighborhoods and the people. It was very common for people at different tables to share wine and food just so you could try something that looked great.The friendly nature of the people in NYC was mind blowing to me. We saw that same thing in Chicago in the 60's when I was coming up. Today none of that exists here like it did back then. To see Little Italy fall like this is heart breaking. Chicago is a great city, but it has no heart or soul. As this guy mentioned, it's all big corporate names pretending to be mom and pop shops. Guess what, it doesn't work and it never will. I haven't been to Chicago since 2017. I don't miss it. I haven't been to NYC since 9/11. Seeing stories like this makes me feel the same way i feel about Chicago now. When you come up in a city and watch it disappear before your eyes all in the name of progress, guess what, it's never going to be the same again. Sad but that's life. Our kids and grand kids are growing up in the era of chain store everything. Sad
Sir: You have a beautiful fiancé who is wonderfully articulate. Nicole’s azure eyes are stunning against her (as Rodney Crowell sang of Roseanne Cash) “her black Irish hair”. I did appreciate, intended or not, that you chose to smoke a ‘poker’ while interviewing the lady. Hah!
Who owns the buildings? All these businesses on this series paying increasing rents for decades. What stopped them buying/owning the units they've been operating in since 1900?
It’s a really long story. But to sum it up quickly the best answer is hindsight is 20/20. I think this question might have been answered in a past episode. Thanks for watching!
Spot on and he sees first hand how the old days no longer live with us all.Health and peace of mind wishes to that whole family!
Italians , unsung heroes of NYC.
@@Herandme90 100%
Agree 100%.
God Bless Little Italy. This neighborhood and its people helped build this city. 🇮🇹🇺🇸 whatever we have left of Little Italy needs to remain and be saved. 💯
You can tell you take a lot of pride in your family heritage and continuing the family business in these changing times. I hope the locals appreciate your sincerity.
This guy is good, well worth listening to, bless him and his family.
@@Robert-eg2oy 🇮🇹💪🏻👍🏼
The ethnic shops that have been disappearing for the last 25 or more years is a great loss for all of us. Quality and variety of food has disappeared as well. Italian, German, Greek and many more as a kid I loved when my mom would take me shopping and visit these stores as well as the city markets in Baltimore, it is sad to see them go…. I will be following them soon
👏👏👏Great work documenting the last days of the “ethnic neighborhoods. “Community” is what we are all missing today. We all need that so much.
@@knoname7778 thanks for watching
💯💯
Yep much better then than now where everyone stares at their cell phone all day
Travel a bit more. Little Italy still exists in S. Philadelphia. In fact the Italian Market on S 9th St is still very much there. It's the same street Rocky Balboa ran on in the first Rocky movie.
Paul, I just watched the 10 episodes. Outstanding job covering what has to have been one of the most iconic and unique areas of NYC. I was a partner in a Wall Street firm in charge of our ops in Philly, San Fran, Los Angeles, and my biggest operation, Chicago. I spent a week a month in NYC over the 80's and 90's. What a great time to be in that business and an even better time to be in NYC. It's sad to see what's happened on Mulberry. I'll have the memories to treasure for as long as I live. You really captured the essence of some of what I witnessed and felt while enjoying Little Italy. I was made a partner in 1980, and the firm had several dinners in my honor over a long weekend. The first was in Little Italy. A night I remember like it was last month. Brilliant work by you. So sad to see this treasure get uprooted like this. I know that makes me sound old. Hey I am OLD, so it's all good. Cheers
@@TheRange7 thanks for the kind words! NYC is all about the people now. They’ve robbed everything else from us. That’s why I had to document these people, my friends, who are still here and make nyc great. Real NYers who were born here like myself. Not the imposters, posers, and clout chasers who roam the city now.
@@PaulStoneFilms You're welcome. All the people I was lucky enough to work with from NYC over my career were lifelong New Yorkers as well. The genuine goods. Some of the nicest and best people I've ever known in my long life. Take care Paul.
He's such a humble man, and his shop is lovely. Unfortunately, the world has reached this point. Great job, thank you for sharing! 😊
@@karendawson4087 thanks for watching!
Suburbanization helped kill shops like this one. 😢
Beautiful shop
I grew up on Mulberry street, as a child my mom would take me in DiPalo's (1960's) as she went cheese shopping, you can smell the fresh cheese in the air stepping into the store. A treasure for sure. Little Italy isn't what it used to be, it's shrinking! Businesses have come and gone. I literally grew up in the kitchen at Angelo's restaurant as my uncle was the cook there for many years. Everyone spoke Italian in the stores and on the streets. I am proud to say I grew up in Little Italy! I go back from time to time. Got to get my pastries and gelato.
Did you watch the video? He talks about what you are referring to.
@@track1949 I sure did, did you?
@@track1949 I sure did. Did you?
Louie is an absolute 💯 gentleman , my godfather Jonny Fretta introduced me to him years ago .. remember when he moved to location he's at now from across the street ..
Worked soooo hard to make his store just right!! Good family.
@@banditdane2710 agree, 100%!
God Bless Louie and his family.
❤️🙏🏼
Glad that Little Italy in Toronto is holding onto several Italian shops & restaurants, though there are still no guarantees in the future.
Greetings from (Italy, Bari) one day I want to visit New York, Little Italy.. nice Storys 👌🇮🇹
Too bad greed is putting these old fine shops and restaurants out of business
greed? How is greed responsible?
@@tedkeenan3341 by raising rents to owners of stores and restaurants that they know they can't afford so they can rent to chain restaurants who have the resources to pay
People always say that when it comes home to roost but for those buying they have a dream too. Time moves on and nothing remains constant. It's life...
Same stuff has happened in Philly and Baltimore.
Luckily PHL still has a terrific cheese shop in S. Philly called DiBruno's. They also have a shop in Center City.
@@tedkeenan3341Did you watch the video Simple Jack?
Sad. Where does it all go? It just can’t live in the past. Thank you for this treasure.
Powerful video. I’m fourth generation Italian American whose relatives all came through Ellis Island and settled in Little Italy. I live in the suburbs of Wash DC and the next time I’m in NYC, I’ll definitely visit and shop DiPalo’s 🇮🇹🇺🇸
Di Palo's must be protected at all costs
@@londreleats agreed!
💯💯🇮🇹🇺🇸❤️
YES!!! 1000%
Nothing last forever including the moon
It's being bought by the Chinese as we speak.
Amazing story. Beautiful to see that although born in the US,he holds into his heritage and culture. ❤️ what an a magnificent deli. The stock alone is worth hundreds of thousands. Beautiful store. Such a shame Americans don’t value or understand good food.
@@sandrafailla9240 totally agree
Please protect DI PAULOS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY 😢😊
Have to go there next time I’m in the neighborhood. Love the old pics from days gone by!
@@josephtomaselli9181 thanks for watching!
Brilliant. Simply a superlative production and presentation. Di Palo's is perfect. Their mozzarella, tomato and prosciutto hero is the stuff of legends. Parisi Bakery is also fantastic. But the Di Palo prosciutto is otherworldly...and the way their ingredients meld is unexplainable.
I love this series, thank you and keep up the good work!
@@fredvonhayek4762 thank you!
Great to hear this man’s story. My grandparents came through Ellis Island and I am forever grateful! 🗽🇺🇸🇮🇹
This is a great representation of what is wrong with this country today. God bless this man and his family. I’ve been in DiPalo’s and it is a damn shame what has happened. He is so emotional that he struggles to speak at times.
People moved out of these places. I hate that it happened. But people wanted more space.
This place is the best, I would get all my cheeses there, the fresh ricotta would be delivered every morning so I could make ricotta ice cream . Love this place love love love love it. Signed Adrian Nigro pastry assistant at Monuz restaurant back in the day
We as customers miss the community too!
So many mom and pop stores across the boroughs that have been there for generations....gone...all gone, and with it the soul and charm of the neighborhood and surrounding community. Mr. DiPalo is right, and so was his great grandma.
Ah what a treat to hear experience of this nature, my family with similar heritage echo your story. ❤
@@angelademarco-duggan3064 👍🏼
I just found your series & started watching this episode. I just learned ..... why my Grandma, whose family immigrated to Chicago in 1916, used the same word for the bathroom. I never knew the origin. Thank you! I can't wait to watch the whole series 😊👍
@@tassietagarelli8905 thanks! Enjoy!
I used to work in that area, and would stop at DiPalo's and other Italian shops on my way home. I left NYC in 2016 and I miss it terribly. But my friends tell me that what I loved is dying out. this makes me so sad.
Wow this broke my heart.
The lost world that DiPalo talks about is worth more than all the AI in the world. It's real, it's human.
The gentleman speaks very well very articulate one of the best Little Italy documentaries I've witnessed God bless you sir
Another great video, Paul. Thank you so much!
One of the reasons my wife and I moved to Italy two years ago, the community. The people are great!
So much rich history
Another special doc…thank you 🌞
@@TrudyRank thank u!
Great video. A big hug from Rome Italy
I’m in Italy!
@@PaulStoneFilms grande! Complimenti per i tuoi lavori
Thanks for sharing your story 🙏
Very sad to see such a community with such a great heritage coming to an end 😢
Thanks for your videos!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 well said
For holidays my Aunt would walk to DiPalo and get all her cheeses, cold cuts etc. it was always the best and really made the holidays.
I have never been to New York I would love to go to Little Italy, and stop at DI Palo’s and go crazy buying and eating everything I could yum looks fantastically delicious.
Very sad.very very sad.
Let’s take back little Italy 🇮🇹 ❤
DiPalo's Is Absolutely Amazing 🙏🏼🙏🏼 You've All Gotta Go!
There are plenty of Italian stores in Bronx’s little italy at least, authentic ones too
I totally agree with you 👍🔝
I have seen the shrinkage of Little Italy and the overtake of Little China. You don't know where you are no more.
They suck. I'd rather be around Italians
💯💯Unfortunately true
"overtake" what year are you in? Plenty of chinatown restaurants have closed down and plenty more to come. They can't afford rent either. They're in queens or Brooklyn. Authentic cantonese food, better off in Canada.
Love that place Get in there couple times a month
The US government never stopped Italian immigrants in 1963. They did end country quotas giving Southern (Italian), Eastern European and other immigrants easier access to the US. At the same time more Italians found it easier to find work in other EU countries and still be close to Italy.
So true!
@@pinkypromise111 100%
If we actually had intelligent people running things they would wave real estate taxes on businesses like this. They're quick to put up historical markers but letting businesses like this fade into history is like losing fabrics that keep New York City together. Places like this are just as important as the Statue of Liberty.
The end was powerful, I hope they never close
I would love to visit that store someday 🇮🇹
The Feast of San Gennaro is going on right now.
My heart is sad❤❤❤😢😮😢😢😢
Greed and 😢these young asses making these great stores dissappear shameful
People dislike each other. All over the country. Not just in the boroughs. They dislike each other …immensely
It's a shame
So sad, same situation in Australia
❤🇮🇹🇺🇸💪🏻
I wished you would do one on the irish in hells kitchen
Went there many times for chicken cutlet, prosciutto, mozzarella, peppers on a semolina hero .NYC under Bloomberg became all about money, making a city for just the rich, everyone else was left to wither.
@@leodoro8877 Lou has the best chicken cutlets for sure!
I'm drooling!
Is not there a Little Italy in Bronx too?
🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼. …………..FORZA ITALIA
Very sad! But we only have ourselves to blame. Selling out, moving on.. Little Italy, Bensonhurst, etc.
@@Michele-kk2ip good point I’m still here!
Why is it sad? It's called assimilation. Italians Americans became just Americans and moved up the socioeconomic ladder and moved into the suburbs. That's what this country is all about, and that's the way it should be.
@@joedimaggio3687Abandoning your roots is a good thing?
@Duosiciliano why should it be important? Most people in Italy could care less if an American has Italian roots.
@@Duosiciliano we should all just be proud of being American. That's what is important.
In another decade, if things don't drastically change, it'll all be high-end shops and top-dollar apartment rentals, with a sprinkling of Starbucks-type corporate business. All things must pass. I'll bet the Native Americans who once occupied the island we call Manhattan would never recognize the place now;
Thanks i love Italian food by the way new York city is getting pricey 👌👃🇺🇸🇵🇰🇮🇱👃👌
NYC is the last city in America to have these ethnic neighborhoods and districts. I was fortunate enough to be there very often back in the 80's and 90's. I got to experience the neighborhoods and the people. It was very common for people at different tables to share wine and food just so you could try something that looked great.The friendly nature of the people in NYC was mind blowing to me. We saw that same thing in Chicago in the 60's when I was coming up. Today none of that exists here like it did back then. To see Little Italy fall like this is heart breaking. Chicago is a great city, but it has no heart or soul. As this guy mentioned, it's all big corporate names pretending to be mom and pop shops. Guess what, it doesn't work and it never will. I haven't been to Chicago since 2017. I don't miss it. I haven't been to NYC since 9/11. Seeing stories like this makes me feel the same way i feel about Chicago now. When you come up in a city and watch it disappear before your eyes all in the name of progress, guess what, it's never going to be the same again. Sad but that's life. Our kids and grand kids are growing up in the era of chain store everything. Sad
Same in most city’s in Europe gone the same way
A dam shame
Use to have a store in bklyn in 1970s also greatest store
every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.
Sad
Smart man
Sadly I believe they may have closed.
@@PaulineZingerman Aleva closed. Di Palo’s are still open and doing well! Thanks for watching.
Poignant. Home is a time not a place.
Sir: You have a beautiful fiancé who is wonderfully articulate. Nicole’s azure eyes are stunning against her (as Rodney Crowell sang of Roseanne Cash) “her black Irish hair”. I did appreciate, intended or not, that you chose to smoke a ‘poker’ while interviewing the lady. Hah!
Who owns the buildings?
All these businesses on this series paying increasing rents for decades. What stopped them buying/owning the units they've been operating in since 1900?
It’s a really long story. But to sum it up quickly the best answer is hindsight is 20/20. I think this question might have been answered in a past episode. Thanks for watching!
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Diversity is our strength....SURE!@@
Other store was fort Hamilton pky 40 st
Little Italy in NYC is a joke!! It is Chinatown annex!!
Thomas can shoes buster brown 5 and dimes stores max suite bring it home try it then pay for suite
How can it be a little Italy if the Italiani are all gone ?
It's little. Now it's more little. It never was big Italy.
@@stephenfisher3721Over 110,000 Italians was quite big.