[3] In 2008, he received a Community Activist of the Year award from The People's Firehouse, Inc., a community-based, nonprofit organization in Brooklyn.

Along with his academic scholarship and authorship at St. John's University, DiFazio taught the texts of Karl Marx at the Brecht Forum in New York City.

He was a co-producer and co-host of the show City Watch on local radio station WBAI 99.5 FM since March 2000.

Along of a core group of intellectuals and local activists, he contributed to the journal Situations, co-founded by Stanley Aronowitz.

[5] At the time of his death, he was researching and writing his book, Conversations in Diners: Ordinary People and the Crisis in Capitalism.