The tree-lined streets of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, were steeped in the quiet, aristocratic dignity of old-world Italian New York. Along Shore Road, grand limestone and brownstone mansions looked out across the glistening expanse of the Narrows toward Staten Island and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Standing before the wrought-iron gates of the Bellini family estate—a four-story Romanesque revival brownstone surrounded by manicured rose gardens and ancient silver maples—Elena Bellini stepped down from…
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