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| Normally, I go out of my way to avoid the crowds at New York's Feast of San Gennaro (the patron saint of Naples), held every September since 1926. Originally, the newly arrived immigrant merchants and cafe owners shared their wares and food with passersby here along Mulberry Street in exchange for a small offering for the poor. I'm pretty sure the vendors aren't expected to give away all their profits these days, when more than a million people show up for the ambience and the zeppole. To see more interpretations of the letter L, go here: http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.com/ |
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
abc wednesday —L is for "Little Italy"
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Makes me think of the beginning of Emmett Grogan’s Ringolevio, for some reason. But I really don’t know New York from nothin’.
ReplyDeleteMore than a million people? That's a lot of ambience!
ReplyDeleteI hear NYC's Little Italy has been shrinking.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, my father was born in September of 1926, albeit 180 miles away.
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
It is pretty cool how something so small and neighbourly can grow and grow... and grow!
ReplyDeleteThe people of 1926 would be astounded by the million people. Wonder what the size of NY was in those days.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great street scene but I'd be a little overwhelmed with that crowd!
ReplyDeleteViva l'Italia.
ReplyDeletewow! a million? that is incredible. not hard to believe considering how many people travel through NY in a single day-I guess I just never thought about how the population would effect an event such as this.
ReplyDeleteLast time there - December - it was 3 feet of snow, and still a big crowd!
ReplyDeletelove it
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