The award was presented by the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of the Bronx and Westchester.
Other 2015 honorees were actor Robert Davi, who received the Performing Arts award, New Rochelle native Paula Marchetta, who received the award in medicine and Thomas Belfiore, director of security for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who received the Sonny Grosso Law Enforcement award.
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