{"id":364570,"date":"2026-10-05T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364570\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:30:11","slug":"news-12-westchester-yonkers-celebrates-italian-heritage-with-99th-annual-columbus-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364570\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Yonkers Celebrates Italian Heritage With 99th Annual Columbus Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Yonkers celebrated Italian culture and community Sunday with its 99th annual Columbus Day celebration, bringing families, local leaders and visitors together for a day of food, music and tradition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The festivities began with a street fair at noon, where vendors lined the area as families stopped for food, shopped and enjoyed the celebration before the parade stepped off at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The parade traveled from Seminary Avenue to Midland Avenue and along Mile Square Road, drawing a large crowd along the route. This year\u2019s grand marshal was Rella Fogliano of McQuesten Development.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Organizers described the annual event as a warm, family-friendly celebration of Italian heritage, with people coming together to eat, dance and celebrate. Despite the weather, the community still came out and made the most of the tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yonkers celebrated Italian culture and community Sunday with its 99th annual Columbus Day celebration, bringing families, local leaders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-364570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364570","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=364570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}