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New Hyde Park, NY

Mar 11, 2008

Photograph is one family's history

“I'm looking at the photo and I'm thinking, how do you not recognize these people?”

STAMFORD - Every time Tony Mattera went to Remo's, an Italian restaurant and pizzeria on Bedford Street, an old black and white photo of a family gathered around the dinner table, glasses held high in a toast, caught his eye.

The young woman on the end reminded him of his cousin, Sylvia.

But Mattera would learn that it wasn't just his cousin who was frozen in time in the photo, shot in New York seven decades ago and now part of the decor of the downtown Stamford eatery. His father, mother and brother, Philip, are in it, too. Read more

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