Hello, hello, ladies and gents! To kick off our Italians in Bensonhurst section of this Peopling website, we’ve got a relevant poem for ya by Vincenzo Ancona:
Immigrants, illegal aliens and tourists
Have found a place in this country.
In this great land you can find every blessing
Even if thorns at times will prick your hands.
About the Authors
Maisha Kamal
Contact: maishakamal@gmail.com
A prospective Business Economics major with an English minor, Maisha Kamal is a freshman at Macaulay Honors College. With a passion for literature, law, and the arts, she aspires to balance writing with her dreams of becoming a successful attorney. Residing in the predominantly Italian neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, doing research about Italian immigration to Bensonhurst was especially interesting to her. In the future, she hopes to discover more about Italian culture and continue learning the language.
Nicole Grennan
Contact: nicolegrennan@yahoo.com
Nicole Grennan is looking to pursue a possible double major in English and Physics. She has absolutely no idea what she intends to do with either of those degrees upon graduation, but it will either go very well or she will be unemployed. Nicole has work published on a few different but equally credible platforms, including medium.com, justinbieberfanfiction.com, and a variety of Yelp posts. She is really pretty.
Francesca
