Two weeks before Columbus Day, Oyster Bay town officials along with several Italian-Americans from the local organizations gather to call on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other mayors around the nation to not remove their statutes of Christopher Columbus or send them to Massapequa.

Last month, de Blasio said that his commission to study New York City's "symbols of hate" will study the statue of Christopher Columbus that stands more than 70-feet-tall at the center of Columbus Circle.