Mulberry Road is alive as soon as once more with the sights, sounds and smells of the Feast of San Gennaro – again for its 99th 12 months.
Crowds will pack Little Italy over the 11-day pageant in Manhattan to pattern all of the Italian delicacies, from the candy to the savory. The pageant attracts one million folks yearly.
The Feast of San Gennaro has been an annual custom in New York Metropolis for the reason that flip of the twentieth century, when Italian immigrants settled in Manhattan, in keeping with the feast’s web site.
In 1926, as a strategy to maintain the Neapolitan traditions alive, these Italian immigrants determined to have a one-day block celebration to San Gennaro, their patron saint. This custom continued 12 months after 12 months, decade after decade, finally reworking into an 11-day occasion masking a whopping 11 blocks within the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan.
The excessive mass of the patron saint will happen on Friday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m. on the Shrine Church of the Most Valuable Blood on 113 Baxter St., which will probably be adopted by a non secular procession.
This 12 months’s grand marshal is actor and comic Joe Piscopo, a star on “Saturday Night Live” throughout the Nineteen Eighties.
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A meals vendor cooks sausages throughout the Feast of San Gennaro pageant within the Little Italy neighborhood on September 13, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Photos)
“We are Italians! We love Italia and we love America of course, and this is the best feast you ever saw in your life,” Frank Piazza, of North Bergen, New Jersey, stated whereas attending the pageant final weekend.
The pageant options meals, leisure, and stay music and takes place annually in Manhattan’s Little Italy neighborhood, stretching alongside Mulberry Road between Canal and Houston Streets.
The festivities will run by means of Sept. 21.
