Feast of San Gennaro, Little Italy, Manhattan
The 76th Annual Feast of San Gennaro, New York City’s oldest, biggest and best street festival, will be celebrated starting Thursday, September 11, and continuing for 11 days through Sunday, September 21, 2003.
Presented annually since 1996 by Figli di San Gennaro, Inc., a not-for-profit organization, this year�s Feast will again bring more than 1 million people to the streets of Little Italy in the annual salute to the Patron Saint of Naples. The street festivities � including parades, entertainment, food stands and a cannoli-eating contest � are capped on September 19th with a celebratory Mass and candlelit procession as the Statue of the Saint is carried from its permanent home in Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street. More..
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1 tien // Sep 18, 2003 at 12:02 am
mmm…sausage…yum.
built base again. i think i just need to have my computer off.
2 rachelle // Sep 18, 2003 at 11:05 am
starting to think that .. uh… the problem may be bigger than “building a base”.. intervention anyone? who’s in!?
3 tien // Sep 18, 2003 at 1:30 pm
really, i’m not that bad. it was the wine this time. really, it was.
4 Jeannette // Sep 18, 2003 at 8:50 pm
rachelle - did you end up going to the festival? the highlight was the fried oreo.
sometimes, little italy kind of depresses me. a shadow of its former self. how cool would it be if little italy was filled with little ino’s and gnocco’s?
5 rachelle // Sep 18, 2003 at 8:54 pm
that would be heaven on earth!!! i didnt go to the festival.. i just walked passed it while walking home from jess’s apartment last night.
6 shelby // Sep 18, 2004 at 7:07 pm
what time does the san gennaro festival end?