Her research is profiled in the Smithsonian Channel documentary, "George Washington's Secret Love."

Calvi is the recipient of twelve Emmy Awards,[4] including for her breaking-news reportage of the "Miracle on the Hudson", the 2009 emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549.

She has also received Emmy Award nominations in the "breaking news" and "special reports" categories.

The HBO documentary film Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable (2004), directed by Rory Kennedy, features several video clips of Calvi anchoring the news.

Calvi has three children with her husband, Mike Spano, who was elected mayor of Yonkers, New York, in 2011.