A new book, "The Staten Island Italian-American Experience"

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Staten Island: Most Italian of New York City's Five Boroughs- 40% Italian Descent

A new book, "The Staten Island Italian-American Experience" gives an insight to Italian Staten Island, and also the three most important Italians associated with that borough, Giovanni da Verrazzano,(Master cartographer, explorer, and namesake of the Verrazano Bridge), Antonio Meucci (inventor of the Telephone, not the duplicitous A.G. Bell, wily Scot), and Giuseppe Garibaldi (a hero to Americans who hailed him as the George Washington of Italy.)