Rosanna Scotto's balancing act

Welcome to Crain's New York Top Stories. This week, senior reporter C. J. Hughes talks to Good Day New York co-anchor Rosanna Scotto about how she balances her journalism career with running a thriving restaurant.

During her long career in New York, Scotto has shared stories about subway crime, asylum seekers?and?snowstorms. For about the same amount of time, she’s also helped operate her family's restaurant, Fresco by Scotto, a Midtown hotspot known for its clubby atmosphere and Italian plates.

Her kind of outer-borough New York-ness — direct but warm and peppered with long-sounding vowels — seems to have served both enterprises well.

“They liked my Brooklyn accent, and they liked my Brooklyn chutzpah,” Scotto said of the TV executives who gave her her big break in the 1980s, a sentiment that the patrons of Fresco, where fashion mavens, politicos?and?some Yankees rub elbows, might also express.

And in an industry known for flameouts, Fresco has endured, marking its 30th anniversary on East 52nd Street last year.

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