Meet Maria and Antonio Ciluffo, the newly-wed couple in this wonderful old photograph taken at The Eagle Photo Studio, 119 DeGraw Street, right at the corner of Columbia Street.
They were immigrants from Carini, Sicily, outside of Palermo.
The studio is long gone, but some of the descendants of Maria and Antonio still live right here in the neighborhood.
Their great-grandson, Carroll Gardener Michael Brown, writes:
Antonio was a cement/plaster worker and Maria worked in sweatshops all around the neighborhood (as did three of her daughters). They attended Sacred Hearts Church, which is no longer around due to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway's footprint. They loved the yearly Feast of St. Rosalie, the patron saint of Palermo, where their daughter, Christina, met a young man from Bari, Michael, whom she would eventually marry.
Michael informed me that Maria and Antonio are buried side by side in Greenwood.
I want to thank him for sharing his family's Carroll Gardens history. And please check out his neighborhood site here.
Maria And Anthony's hometown in Sicily today
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