by Allegra Hobbs

This feast is back for seconds! A group of Italian Williamsburgers has been quietly reprising the Giglio feast — the beloved century-plus neighborhood tradition where men carry an 80-foot-tall tower through the streets on St. Paulinus's feast day in July — every Columbus Day for the past four years.

But now the secret is out, and the revelers say they now expect hundreds of onlookers to join the fun this Oct. 12. "People in the local Giglio community have found out about it by word of mouth," said Domenic Varuzza of the neighborhood's Giglio Boys Club, who helped kick off the first Columbus Day feast in 2011. 

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