Photography: The Feast of San Gennaro, Little Italy, NYC 9/21/23
Caption: You can’t have a street fare in NYC without rides. I think it’s a law somewhere.
Caption: It can’t be a street fare without candy apples and other sugary treats.
Caption: Try to win a Pikachu or three, eh?
Caption: Hot Honey Rice Balls, Rich’s Balls. These were a definite highlight of the night.
Caption: Passerby were enthralled by this pasta stand. If you passed by, you’d completely understand: At one point they had used a butane cooking torch, which had things in flames. They dramatic put more cheese on the pasta. It was a sight, y’all.
Caption: Artisans, jewelry makers and others selling their wares at The Feast of San Gennaro.
The other day, I went down to Little Italy for the Feast of San Gennaro. It was the first time I had gone down in a couple of decades — yes, really, a couple of decades — and it brought back a lot of very fond memories of going down to the feast as a boy with my parents.
Plus, the food! The food is the whole point of it anyway.
