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
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.
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.
@@track1949 oh I’m very well traveled and yes, there are some of those neighborhoods left but it’s NOTHING like it used to be. that’s what I’m talking about
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.
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.
My mother would send me on a regular basis to the store in the late 1960s and into the early 1980s. I seem to recall that it was on the other side of Mott St., right across the way from the current location and it was much smaller. I remember Lou, his parents, siblings and other family members well. His mother always had a smile on hear face. When I moved away, in 1991 for a number of years, as I returned to NYC to visit my parents, a visit to Di Palo's was mandatory as we would stock up on cheeses and other items before returning home.
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.
@@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 🇮🇹🇺🇸
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
"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.
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.
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!
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;
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.
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!
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.
Italians , unsung heroes of NYC.
@@Herandme90 100%
Agree 100%.
“Unsung”…… people of NY of all ethnicities love Italian food, pizza!
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. 💯
How do you save a business. You can send the business owners a check.
This guy is good, well worth listening to, bless him and his family.
@@Robert-eg2oy 🇮🇹💪🏻👍🏼
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.
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!
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
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%!
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. 😢
👏👏👏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
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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.
@@track1949 oh I’m very well traveled and yes, there are some of those neighborhoods left but it’s NOTHING like it used to be. that’s what I’m talking about
The lost world that DiPalo talks about is worth more than all the AI in the world. It's real, it's human.
Greetings from (Italy, Bari) one day I want to visit New York, Little Italy.. nice Storys 👌🇮🇹
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?
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.
God Bless Louie and his family.
❤️🙏🏼
My mother would send me on a regular basis to the store in the late 1960s and into the early 1980s. I seem to recall that it was on the other side of Mott St., right across the way from the current location and it was much smaller. I remember Lou, his parents, siblings and other family members well. His mother always had a smile on hear face. When I moved away, in 1991 for a number of years, as I returned to NYC to visit my parents, a visit to Di Palo's was mandatory as we would stock up on cheeses and other items before returning home.
@@josephbarone428 that’s amazing! Thanks for watching.
Glad that Little Italy in Toronto is holding onto several Italian shops & restaurants, though there are still no guarantees in the future.
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.
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?
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 🇮🇹🇺🇸
I love this series, thank you and keep up the good work!
@@fredvonhayek4762 thank you!
Have to go there next time I’m in the neighborhood. Love the old pics from days gone by!
@@josephtomaselli9181 thanks for watching!
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
Sad. Where does it all go? It just can’t live in the past. Thank you for this treasure.
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.
One of the reasons my wife and I moved to Italy two years ago, the community. The people are great!
Great to hear this man’s story. My grandparents came through Ellis Island and I am forever grateful! 🗽🇺🇸🇮🇹
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
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.
Please protect DI PAULOS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY 😢😊
Let’s take back little Italy 🇮🇹 ❤
Ah what a treat to hear experience of this nature, my family with similar heritage echo your story. ❤
@@angelademarco-duggan3064 👍🏼
I used to go there and buy their bread that had cheese and prosciutto mixed in. Also was the only place that sold spinach lasagna.
The gentleman speaks very well very articulate one of the best Little Italy documentaries I've witnessed God bless you sir
Wow this broke my heart.
Great video. A big hug from Rome Italy
I’m in Italy!
@@PaulStoneFilms grande! Complimenti per i tuoi lavori
There are plenty of Italian stores in Bronx’s little italy at least, authentic ones too
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!
Another great video, Paul. Thank you so much!
great family history stories… hang in there 👍👍👍
@@MH-fb5kr 🇮🇹💪🏻
We as customers miss the community too!
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.
We still have some Italian Pork Stores open in Bklyn...but not so many
@@letsgomets002 🇮🇹💪🏻
Di Palo's must be protected at all costs
@@londreleats agreed!
💯💯🇮🇹🇺🇸❤️
YES!!! 1000%
Nothing last forever including the moon
Protected? By whom exactly? You can send the business owners a check every month if you like.
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 to see such a community with such a great heritage coming to an end 😢
So much rich history
Another special doc…thank you 🌞
@@TrudyRank thank u!
Very sad.very very sad.
DiPalo's Is Absolutely Amazing 🙏🏼🙏🏼 You've All Gotta Go!
Thanks for your videos!
Thanks for sharing your story 🙏
Love that place Get in there couple times a month
The end was powerful, I hope they never close
I totally agree with you 👍🔝
So true!
@@pinkypromise111 100%
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.
The Feast of San Gennaro is going on right now.
I would love to visit that store someday 🇮🇹
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 well said
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.
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
My heart is sad❤❤❤😢😮😢😢😢
I wished you would do one on the irish in hells kitchen
🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼. …………..FORZA ITALIA
Greed and 😢these young asses making these great stores dissappear shameful
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Is not there a Little Italy in Bronx too?
Thanks i love Italian food by the way new York city is getting pricey 👌👃🇺🇸🇵🇰🇮🇱👃👌
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.
I used to shop there, best quality Italian foods.
Same in most city’s in Europe gone the same way
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!
every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.
Use to have a store in bklyn in 1970s also greatest store
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;
Sadly I believe they may have closed.
@@PaulineZingerman Aleva closed. Di Palo’s are still open and doing well! Thanks for watching.
Sad
A dam shame
Smart man
Other store was fort Hamilton pky 40 st
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!
Poignant. Home is a time not a place.
Diversity is our strength....SURE!@@
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!
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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.
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
Nothing stay the same. Soon there ĺl be another group. This is not your territory
The Asians are richer more united and more numerous.
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.