A sprawling mansion featuring grand marble staircases and gold-leaf molding imported from Italy just hit the market for $25 million. It’s in Bay Ridge. The property at 220 77th Street is the priciest ...

I am a granddaughter of a proud Italian-American man with a strong native New Yorker-personality. I was raised with a quiet reverence for fresh bread—and a louder reverence for the people who made it.

Brooklyn Roots Italian has only existed in Bay Ridge for a few years (and in Sunset Park for a few years before that), but if you told us it has been around for a century, we’d believe you. The place ...