Little Italy Food Festival Nyc (2023)

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Where is Little Italy festival in NYC? ›

The 11-day festival celebrating Italian culture will take place on Mulberry Street and will feature the traditional food vendors, processions and live entertainment. Italian American actress Kathrine Narducci will serve as this year's grand marshall.

Everybody needs a little Italian in their life from time to time, so get ready for the annual San Gennaro Feast. Every September, Little Italy hosts the 11-day-long celebration in honor of Patron Saint of Naples.

The Feast of San Gennaro (in Italian: Festa di San Gennaro), also known as San Gennaro Festival, is a Neapolitan and Italian-American patronal festival dedicated to Saint Januarius, patron saint of Naples and Little Italy, New York. His feast is celebrated on 19 September in the calendar of the Catholic Church.

Each year, beginning on the second Thursday of September, New York City begins its 11-day San Gennaro Fest.

When Italian immigrants moved to this Manhattan neighborhood in the late 1800s, they brought their customs, food and language. That heritage remains evident today—Little Italy's streets are lined with restaurants serving Italian staples on red-and-white checkered tablecloths.

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San Gennaro Fest is located in Little Italy along Mulberry Street between Canal and Houston Streets. The festival stage (where the celebrities will appear beginning at 6:30 p.m. each night) is located on the corner of Grand and Mott Streets.

It grew from a humble one day religious commemoration honoring Saint Januarius on September 19, 1926 and it is now known for its Italian food, games, live performances, parades, processions and most of all its festive atmosphere.

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The oldest festival is believed to be the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Hammonton, NJ. The biggest festival is the Feast of San Gennaro held every September in New York City, which attracts about one million people.

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At 48-square blocks, San Diego's Little Italy is the largest in the U.S.

This year's event is set to begin on Friday, September 23 at 5 pm and will go until around midnight. The festival will pick back up again on Saturday, September 24 at 11 and last until midnight. And on the final day of the festival, Sunday, September 25, you can enjoy the festivities from 11 am until 10 pm.

Once home to thousands of Italians and Italian-Americans, Little Italy has long since shrunk to a name on a street map and — at most — a three-block stretch of red-sauce joints on Mulberry Street patronized almost entirely by tourists.

Ideally, lunch includes courses; a primo piattoor first course, like pasta, gnocchi, or rice, a protein, and vegetables. Normally, lunch is Italian's biggest and most sustaining meal of the day.

Today large Italian districts are found in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge (settings of the film Saturday Night Fever), Howard Beach and Ozone Park in Queens, Belmont in the Bronx, and Staten Island (where 55% of residents are of Italian heritage).

The neighborhood's most important street is called Mulberry Street and is almost all of what remains of Little Italy today. Here, you will find the best Italian restaurants and bars. If you have a sweet tooth, we recommend visiting New York's oldest and most famous bakery: Ferrara Bakery & Cafe on 195th Grand Street.

The feast of San Gennaro takes place on Mulberry between Canal and Houston.

Mulberry Street

Mulberry Street is the main street of Little Italy. Lined with restaurants and cafes with outdoor dining, this is the place to relax, and enjoy great food, and people-watch. Mulberry Street is fairly long and runs through Chinatown on its southern end, through Little Italy and Nolita, and ends in NoHo.

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