Feast of San Gennaro (Mulberry Street festival)

The Feast of San Gennaro is an annual street festival in Manhattan's Little Italy that began in 1926 as a religious commemoration of Saint Januarius and evolved into a multi-day cultural event with food vendors, parades, and a religious procession. The festival traditionally takes place in September along Mulberry Street and showcases Italian-American culinary traditions, vendors, and community organizations. While the route and scale have changed over the decades with neighborhood shifts, the event remains closely associated with Mulberry Street and Little Italy's cultural identity.