{"id":10848,"date":"2025-10-21T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10848\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:23:16","slug":"cm-paladino-hosts-second-annual-italian-heritage-festival-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10848\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Paladino hosts second annual Italian Heritage Festival \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_6040.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"italian heritage festival\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Over 1,000 people took part in the celebration of the second annual Italian Heritage Festival on 14th Avenue in Whitestone.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>\t\t Search our comprehensive guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/events.qns.com\/?utm_source=qns&amp;utm_medium=oneliner&amp;utm_campaign=thingstodo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">things to do in Queens<\/a> for more local events \u2014 or <a href=\"https:\/\/events.qns.com\/add-your-event\/?utm_source=qns&amp;utm_medium=oneliner&amp;utm_campaign=thingstodo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">submit your own<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>New York City Council Member <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/district-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vickie Paladino<\/a> hosted her second annual Italian Heritage Festival on Sunday, Oct. 19, on 14th Avenue, between Clintonville Street and 150th Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/whitestone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whitestone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>There was plenty of fun to be had for the whole family at the Italian Heritage Festival. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 community members gathered to enjoy the festivities and celebrate Italian-American culture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5726.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761063749_808_DSC_5408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>The festival featured local vendors, food trucks, traditional Italian treats, music and more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Local vendors and food trucks provided delicious Italian treats to attendees. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_6005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>Live music and dance performances were provided by various local artists and organizations, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/landrumperformingarts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Landrum School of Performing Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>There were live musical and dance performances. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Students from the Landrum School of Performing Arts entertained attendees of the Italian Heritage Festival. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>The Italian Heritage Festival reflects Paladino\u2019s commitment to celebrating cultural heritage and strengthening community ties across her district, which includes the northeast Queens neighborhoods of Whitestone, <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/college-point\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Point<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/bayside\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayside<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/little-neck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Neck<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/douglaston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Douglaston<\/a> and parts of North <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/flushing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flushing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5871.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5930.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5596.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so proud to have started this new Queens tradition that will hopefully last generations,\u201d Paladino said. \u201cI want to sincerely thank all our vendors, volunteers, police and of course, my staff, who worked so hard to make it happen. And I promise, next year\u2019s event will be even bigger!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Council Member Paladino addresses attendees of the Italian Heritage Festival. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 people took part in the celebration of the second annual Italian Heritage Festival on 14th Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8747,8748,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-council-member-vickie-paladino","tag-italian-heritage-festival","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}