Del Pezzo Restaurant was an eatery located at 211 West 34th Street (and later, on West 40th and West 47th)E.V. Durling, "Women Make Life Stretch", Milwaukee Sentinel, November 18, 1955. in New York City. It was frequented by singers connected with the Metropolitan Opera Company in the early 1930s.Police Slay Thug Who Defied Search, The New York Times, January 20, 1931, pg. 5. It was a favorite restaurant of Enrico Caruso;Simone Cinotto, The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (University of Illinois Press, 2013), , p. 199. Excerpts available at Google Books. 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.Puccini in America, American Heritage, April 1959, Volume X Issue 3. The restaurant was also frequented by Life magazine staff membersCharles Champlin, A Life in Writing: The Story of an American Journalist (Syracuse University Press, 2006), , p. 129. Excerpts available at Google Books. and by artists, such as the group that first met in 1950 to establish Raphael Soyer's Reality magazine.Andrew Hemingway, Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002), , p. 239. Excerpts available at Google Books. 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.
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