Del Pezzo Restaurant

Del Pezzo Restaurant
Restaurant information
Location	33 West 47th Street [1] , New York, New York, 10036, United States
Coordinates	40°45′27″N73°58′49″W / 40.75750°N 73.98028°W / 40.75750; -73.98028

Del Pezzo Restaurant was an eatery located at 211 West 34th Street (and later, on West 40th and West 47th) ^[2] in New York City. It was frequented by singers connected with the Metropolitan Opera Company in the early 1930s. ^[3] It was a favorite restaurant of Enrico Caruso; ^{[2] [4]} he and Giacomo Puccini dined there during the latter's visit to the United States in December 1906. They were joined by Marziale Sisca, the dean of Italian-American publishers, who owned the newspaper La Follia. ^[5] The restaurant was also frequented by Life magazine staff members ^[6] and by artists, such as the group that first met in 1950 to establish Raphael Soyer's Reality magazine. ^[7] It was also the restaurant where Le Corbusier had lunch during his stay in New York for working the preliminary studies of the United Nations Headquarters, which were being prepared in a drafting room on the twenty-seventh floor of the RKO building. ^[8]

References

1. "Directory to Dining in the City". The New York Times. April 5, 1968.
2. E.V. Durling, "Women Make Life Stretch" ^{[ permanent dead link ]}, Milwaukee Sentinel , November 18, 1955.
3. Police Slay Thug Who Defied Search, The New York Times , January 20, 1931, pg. 5.
4. Simone Cinotto, The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (University of Illinois Press, 2013), ISBN   978-0252095016, p. 199. Excerpts available at Google Books.
5. Puccini in America, American Heritage, April 1959, Volume X Issue 3.
6. Charles Champlin, A Life in Writing: The Story of an American Journalist (Syracuse University Press, 2006), ISBN   978-0815608479, p. 129. Excerpts available at Google Books.
7. Andrew Hemingway, Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002), ISBN   978-0300092202, p. 239. Excerpts available at Google Books.
8. Hellman, Geoffrey H. (May 3, 1947). "Profiles: From within and without II". The New Yorker. pp. 36–53.