The 6th Annual Sorrento Cheese Summer in Little Italy Began on the May 12, 2007, and will continue every Weekend until mid-September. Opening weekend featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a ceremony adding actor Gianni Russo to the Little Italy Wall of Fame. On Memorial Day weekend, four new honorees were added to the Wall of Fame – radio personalities Bruce Morrow and Joey Reynolds; actor / singer / comedian Joe Piscopo; and former NYC & Company CEO Cristyne L. Nicholas. Following the ceremony, the 1st Annual Bolla Wines Clam Shucking Contest took place in front of Original Vincent’s, where shuckers from four local restaurants and cafes competed for the title of “Champion Clam Shucker of Little Italy.” The winner, with 82 shucked clams in five minutes, was Juan Vargas from Vincent’s. On Memorial Day (Monday, May 28), Joe Piscopo and his Big Band performed a free concert on the Sorrento Cheese Performance Stage.
Little Italy is one of the most beautiful areas in New York City during the Christmas season. The streets Are decorated with festive overhead lighting, a large Christmas tree is on display in the patio of Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street and the Sorrento Cheese Christmas Carolers, wearing turn of The 20th century costumes, walk through the area
Singing carols in many of the local restaurants and cafes. Its all part of the 7th Annual Christmas in Little Italy celebration that begins on the weekend of Nov. 30/Dec.1/2 and continues through Dec. 14/15/16. And don’t miss the colorful Christmas Parade on
Saturday, December 15, 2007.
New York City’s biggest, most famous and longest running religious street festival – the 80th Annual Feast of San Gennaro – will take place in Little Italy for 11 days starting Thursday, Sept. 13 and continuing through Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007. The Feast, presented by Figli di San Gennaro, a not-for-profit community org-anization which has produced and operated the Feast since 1996. The official Feast Day is Wednesday, Sept. 19, when a high mass celebrating the martyrdom of San Gennaro, the patron Saint of Naples, takes place inside Most Precious Blood Sanctuary on Mulberry St., which Is followed by a religious procession with the saint through the streets of Little Italy.
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