Arancini, cannolis and sauce are just a few Italian delicacies that are favorites for many, but they represent more for Italian-Americans.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust their tradition and everything,\u201d Bronx resident Vinny Macchia said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the food and all the traditions, I still try to carry them every Sunday,\u201d Christine Semenza said.<\/p>\n
Those traditions were on display along Arthur Avenue in the Bronx to mark Columbus Day and Italian American Heritage Month, with musical performances and festivities.<\/p>\n
On a different avenue in Manhattan, crowds lined Fifth Avenue for the Columbus Day parade to take in marching bands, groups and floats. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman attended.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not, breaking with the practice of many previous mayors who have marched in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood, we didn\u2019t want him there,\u201d Arthur Avenue visitor Steve Deflippis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell listen, everyone has their opinions and the right to do whatever they like,\u201d John Messina said.<\/p>\n
The mayor\u2019s office says it plans to host an Italian American Heritage reception at Gracie Mansion in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
And in a social media video posted on Saturday, Mamdani said in part, \u201cItalian American history is New York City history. Their stories are not simply worth telling, they\u2019re worth celebrating, all these years later. Happy Italian American Heritage Month, New York.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mayor’s office confirms Mayor Mamdani has marched in at least 13 other city parades, including the St. Patrick’s Day, Pride and West Indian American Day parades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arancini, cannolis and sauce are just a few Italian delicacies that are favorites for many, but they represent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-371358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371358","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=371358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}