Every Thanksgiving & Christmas Phil would say you make the meatballs & sauce & I will buy the raviolis!  but, first we must have an antipasto and a
fter all that food Phil could not wait for the chocolate desert and ice cream. I have such wonderful memories of our holidays together with my brother Phil. This thanksgiving was empty cold and very depressing!!!!    I never knew how much I really loved him until he was gone. Part of me will always be with him & part of him will always be with me! I still can't believe he's not here! So my dear brother this year I will skip the Holidays....................Thank you for being in my life and loving me so much! My love will continue for you always. Rest in peace and tell mom I'm sorry!

I'm still very sad that you are gone! I miss you like crazy! It's so hard to explain the feeling I have inside my heart! It's funny how we don't know just how much we love someone untill they're gone! I wish I could have showed you when you were here how deep my love is but, I didn't realize it untill you were gone!  I hope you are happy now. You deserve happiness!  You were short changed here on earth because you never really thought you were special! But my dear brother you were very special to me.............I will always love you! I miss you so much!

Yes, Life goes on but, without you it's not the same! I miss you so much! I want to tell you that until I lost you I really never knew just how much I loved you! It's hard to really know untill it happens..........I wish I showed you more love, huged you more & told you more that I loved you! Now that you are with GOD you have the ability to know how much I really loved you! Even though I have my two men with me that I love more than anything I still miss you being in my life. I still worry about you, I know it sounds crazy but I hope you are happy! When my time comes I hope you will meet me and take me home! Oh brother Phil its so hard without you!

friends then friends now always friends..we passed alot together..alot of good times..that will always remain vivid..even tho life brought us to different parts of the world there were always converstions about the village and all our doings..they were good days  we were good friends and we have good memories..life was great then..and we lived it too it's fullest..some day we will all meet again..in the park...Abby & Tony Palermo

I just want to say that I've been told of many stories about my brother Phil!
 Things that I never knew, things that made me laugh, and things that made me realize that Phil had alot of good friends and good times in his life. Everyone tells me the same thing! That he was a great guy and how his memories will live on with them. The best part of his life was in the 60's 70's & 80's mostly the 60's when he lived in Greenwich Village. He alway's told me stories and some were hard to believe.Now that I have been talking with alot of his friends from the past, I'm finding out that there are many more stories still out there of his life that I will never know!but,, one thing I do know is that every single person in his life he has touched, either with his smile, his looks, or his personalty. I want to thank all of Phil's wonderful friends, some I know and some I don't........Thank you for loving him! 

great job diane ! brought tears to my eyes. i could write a lot of stories of philly. but one stands out because in one of your tributes you mentioned raviolis. sometimes on sunday nites i would cook for the guys while i was the manager at Broome St. Bar. macaronis, chicken cutlets, meatballs etc etc. on this one sunday nite he wanted raviolis. so he buys pastosas raviolis which are the best. anyway i make the ravis and the gravy but i forgot the grated cheese. so i tell him. so him and mel go hunting for good grated cheese on a sun nite. the bottom line is while they went hunting for the cheese everybody was starving and didn't want to wait for the cheese. so i made them eat. and they ate like they were going to jail. when they came back with the cheese almost an hour later, they were starving and i told them all the ravis were gone. they were pissed at me. but they didn't know i saved them both a dish. they were really pissed. so i made believe i was busy in the kitchen but i was realling heating up the gravy and the ravis for these 2 hungry guys. when i brought out the 2 heaping hot dishes, phillys face lit up with that handsome face, he was like a little kid on Christmas morning. i wish i would have had a pic of that. PRICELESS !! hang in Diane.

My brother Phil, my husband Lou and I, loved Dunkin Donuts Coffee. For many years after dinner Phil would say come on let's go get coffee it's on me! The next time Lou would say, let's go for coffee it's my turn to pay. This went on for years. So on saturday when we picked him up in his fancy redwood box........we took him to Dunkin Donuts put him next to us on the chair and ordered 3 coffees. Now I know that seems crazy to a lot of you but, it made me feel happy for a while. I am happy he is home with me again..........I may not let him go!  I love you brother Phil..no more pain.