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Jan 4, 2024 · The event is especially important for all Americans with an Italian background. Little Italy’s Mulberry Street is where the first Italian immigrants settled in New York. In 1926, they decided to organize a feast to honor their patron saint from Naples and so the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy was born.
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Feb 20, 2015 · PODCAST Little Italy is the pocket-neighborhood reminder of the great wave of Italian immigration which came through New York City starting in the late 1870s.  This was the home of a densely packed, lively neighborhood of pushcarts, cheese shops, barber shops and organ grinders, populated by thousands of new immigrants in dilapidated old ...
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Sep 16, 2022 · For nearly 100 years Manhattan's Little Italy has played host to the Feast of San Gennaro, which began in 1926 when Italian immigrants in the neighborhood threw an afternoon block party for the patron Saint of Naples. (Scott Lynch) The annual event is to honor the feast's saint, San Gennaro — Bishop of Benevento, Italy, who died a martyr in 305 AD.
Sep 14, 2023 · Photo by Tom Marvel on Flickr. One of New York City’s most popular street fairs returns to Manhattan’s Little Italy neighborhood this week. The 11-day Feast of San Gennaro began in 1926...
The festival was first celebrated in the United States in September 1926, when immigrants from Naples congregated along Mulberry Street in the Little Italy section of Manhattan in New York City to continue the tradition they had followed in Italy to celebrate Saint Januarius, the Patron Saint of Naples.
In the latter part of the 19th century, as Italian immigrants began to arrive in New York City in search of better opportunities, they settled in an area of Lower Manhattan that would become known as Little Italy.
The Feast of San Gennaro originally was once only a one-day religious commemoration. It began in September 1926 with the new arrival of immigrants from Naples. The Italian immigrants congregated along Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to celebrate San Gennaro as the Patron Saint of Naples.
