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The bank was founded by Francesco Rosario Stabile (1845-1920) [2] who arrived in New York City in 1865 from the province of Salerno in Italy. At the time, he was a 20-years-old veteran of the Italian unification struggles. In the 1870s he founded a bank in a shop at 74 Mulberry Street, in the burgeoning Italian immigrant community, and in 1885 ...
Defunct. 1939; 85 years ago. ( 1939) Banca Commerciale Italiana (BCI) established Banca Commerciale Italiana Trust Co. of New York (BCITNY) in 1924 and closed it in 1939, in the run-up to World War II. In 1917 Lodovico Toeplitz, chief of the Foreign Department of BCI, visited New York. In January 1918 BCI established an agency in New York on ...
Lionello Perera. Lionello Arturo Lopes Perera (né Leone Arturo Perera Lopez; June 25, 1871 – April 26, 1942) [1] was a banker, philanthropist and patron of the arts and music, active in New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Lionello Perera was born and grew up in Venice, Italy. He studied commerce there, and then emigrated to the ...
Amadeo Giannini. Amadeo Pietro Giannini (Italian pronunciation: [amaˈdɛːo ˈpjɛːtro dʒanˈniːni]), also known as Amadeo Peter Giannini or A. P. Giannini (May 6, 1870 – June 3, 1949) was an American banker who founded the Bank of Italy, which eventually became Bank of America. Giannini is credited as the inventor of many modern banking ...
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
In 1899, under Comm. Joseph N. Francolini, Mr. Simonelli started his banking career as a clerk with the Italian Savings Bank of New York City. The following year he was appointed secretary of the bank and in 1901, trustee. In 1902, he became a U.S. citizen and joined the Republican Party. The medal that Enrico Caruso gave to Pasquale Simonelli ...
Over 2.6 million [1] Italians and Italian-Americans live in the greater New York metro area, with about 800,000 living within one of the five New York City boroughs. This makes Italian Americans the largest ethnic group in the New York metro area. Fiorello La Guardia was mayor of New York City 1934-1946 as a Republican.
Added to NRHP. November 10, 2015. Franklin National Bank was a bank based in Franklin Square on Long Island, New York. It was once the United States ' 20th largest bank. On October 8, 1974, it collapsed in obscure circumstances involving Michele Sindona, who was a renowned Mafia -banker and member of the irregular freemasonic lodge Propaganda Due.