St. Rocco’s is back after two long years
The St. Rocco’s Festival was held once again at Fireman’s Field in Oyster Bay last weekend, following a two-year hiatus necessitated to the coronavirus. This marks the return of a tradition that dates back over 100 years, and one whose history has rarely been told. St. Rocco’s has been organized and operated for most of those years by the Oyster Ba...
The Galbani Italian Heritage Festival returns to Hertel Avenue this weekend
One of Buffalo’s most popular summer festivals is returning home this weekend. The Galbani Italian Heritage Festival will be back on Hertel Avenue. The event has not taken place in North Buffalo since 2016. This year the three-day festival will kick off tomorrow between Delaware and Virgil. Mark Sciortino, Chef Marco, owner of Marco’s Italian Resta...
Centennial bash of Schenectady’s ‘Festa’ returns
A long-running celebration of Italian life will return to Schenectady this week. St. Anthony’s Fest, a three-day event by Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, resumes Friday for the first time since 2019. “The Festa,” as it's called in the neighborhood, is one of the most popular celebrations in Schenectady. “It’s all about “food, friendship and especially reun...
Italian Festival returns to Utica
The St. Mary of Mount Carmel/Blessed Sacrament Parish Italian Festival will take pace Friday through Sunday, July 15-17, after a two-year absence due to the pandemic. The festivities are scheduled for 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. There will be food, games, entertainment and pizza fritta. There also is the Buona Fortu...
Santa Marina to be paraded through Inwood
The Santa Marina Society of Inwood’s Santa Marina Feast is back this summer for the first time in three years. The Feast, set for July 15 and 16, will feature amusement park rides, games, music, a live auction, food and more in Our Lady of Good Counsel Church’s parking lot on Wanser Avenue, Inwood. The society is a religious organization establishe...
Thousands gather for annual Giglio Feast in Williamsburg
Thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Williamsburg for a jam-packed Sunday at the 119th annual Giglio Feast. The events kicked off Wednesday, all in the name of tradition. The celebrations continued Sunday, as people walked the streets of Williamsburg carrying the more than two-ton Giglio statue on their backs for the big Giglio Tower Lift. Towerin...
Introducing: East Harlem Giglio Festival 2022
Harlem Bespoke: The Giglio Festival of East Harlem celebrates a beloved tradition within what used to be the largest Italian neighborhood in the states. The weekend-long festival culminates with an afternoon fete over at Pleasant Avenue from East 114th to East 116th Street with a crowd of men lifting a massive religious tower that was constructed...
Annual Giglio Feast makes return to Williamsburg
The famed Giglio Feast returned to Williamsburg on Wednesday. The feast, also known as the the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel after the eponymous neighborhood church, kicked off on July 6. Festivities will run through July 17 outside the storied house of worship. The Giglio Feast is centered around a the Giglio, a seven-story-tall, four-ton towe...
Beloved community leader Salvatore ‘Buddy’ Scotto remembered with Carroll Gardens street co-naming
A key piece of Carroll Gardens’ history is now preserved at the corner of Court Street and First Place, where a street sign commemorating late local leader Salvatore “Buddy” Scotto now hangs. Scotto, a longtime community activist, died on Sep. 11, 2020 at the age of 91. “He took on the mafia and lived to tell the tale, that’s a miracle,” said forme...
The Giant Heroes of Mont'e Prama. Recovering ancient Sardinian heritage
Glimpse a lost culture in the heart of the Mediterranean: tour this online exhibition of the 3,000-year-old giants sculpted by a towering civilization that remains little known today. Thousands of shattered limestone pieces came to light in 1974 in Mont'e Prama (western Sardinia) and have been reassembled into dozens of massive statues that reward...
Italy posthumously bestows medal of honor on two local Italian Americans for suffering nazi internment in World War II
Fabrizio Di Michele, Consul General of Italy in New York, will posthumously bestow Italy’s Medal of Honor on Rosario Castronovo of North Bergen, NJ, and Giuseppe Maurantonio of Bronxville, NY, on Monday, July 11. Castronovo’s widow, Paola, 96, and daughters, Pietra Carboneri and Mary Ann Fusco, will accept his medal. Maurantonio’s medal will be rec...
Annual Italian Festival Set For Tasty Return In July in Jamestown, NY
The Italian Festival hosted by St. James Parish in Jamestown is returning in July. The festival has been canceled the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. St. James Parish, 27 Allen St., is bringing the popular event back Saturday, July 23, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. “It’s a festival of authentic Italian food,” said Sally Donisi, festival chair...