De Robertis Pasticceria and Caffe - New York Originals by Jamie McDonald

When people think of New York’s East Village, artists and hipsters immediately come to mind, but there was a time when much of the neighborhood was a bustling immigrant enclave. Italian restaurants, bakeries, and butcher shops lined the avenues with their Jewish, Russian, and German counterparts. Luckily, a few of these old-fashioned places still survive. De Robertis Pasticceria and Caffe, a classic Italian pastry shop on First Avenue, is one of these places.