Will Recchia "out-Italian" Grimm on the South Shore?

Even before Bill deBlasio was elected mayor of New York City, he and the Democratic Party had locked onto Democratic City Council Member Dominic Recchia's upcoming fight for Conservative Republican Michael Grimm's seat in the 2014 congressional election.

In the run-up to the mayoral election, deBlasio campaigned with Recchia at the Excelsior Grand in New Dorp, calling his former City Council