Divine dining: Bklynites chow down on Italian feast at W’burg Columbus-Day Giglio celebration

Oct 13, 2017 777

BY: LAUREN GILL

It was a buffet of biblical proportions! Hundreds of people flooded a Williamsburg street on Sunday for Columbus-Day Giglio, a scaled-down version of the massive feast that neighborhood Catholics celebrate for several days each July. And even though the party didn’t last as long as its summer counterpart, there was still plenty of food to go around, according to the leader of a nearby public-housing complex.

“I ate myself into oblivion,” said Cora Austin, president of the Lindsay Park tenants association. Austin spent the day devouring her way down Lorimer Street, munching on clams, oysters, sausage, spaghetti and meatballs, baked ziti, pizza, and garlic knots, all of which she washed down with plenty of wine from area restaurants, she said.

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