Cassinelli Pasta
31-12 23rd Avenue | also 31-12A 23rd Avenue | Ditmars | built 1931
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- 1957
Italian immigrant Nella Costella starts chatting at Cassinelli Pasta and ends up co-owning it
Cassinelli began in Manhattan in 1912, moved to New Jersey and reached Astoria in the 1930s. In 1957 Nella Costella, a young mother who had come from Italy a few years earlier speaking no English, kept stopping in with her baby carriage, befriended the owners and took a part-time job. More than five decades later she ran the shop with Tony Bonfigli, also a 1950s Italian immigrant, turning out as much as 4,000 pounds of fresh pasta daily.
Source: atlasobscura.com
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