NYC Mayor Angers Italian-Americans by Skipping Columbus Day Parade
- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declined an invitation to Brooklyn’s Columbus Day Parade and did not respond to organizers of the Queens parade.
- Queens organizers said Mamdani’s absence would not determine the event’s success.
- Brooklyn organizers focused on celebrating Italian American heritage, while one parade chairman criticized Mamdani’s position on Columbus and his absence.
- Mamdani previously posted an image directed at a Columbus statue with the words “Take it down,” and his administration later left Little Italy off an immigrant-neighborhood map.
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He had announced it in the election campaign, and kept his promise: the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, did not participate in the parade on Fifth Avenue on the occasion of the Columbus Day. A decision that, although widely anticipated, has aroused the disappointment of some Italian Americans of New York and the organizers of the city parades for the Columbus [...] The article New York, Mayor Mamdani deserts the parade of the Columbus Day. An…
“He disrespects the Italian-American communities and the fact that he does not participate in the parade confirms it,” said the president of the Columbus Heritage Foundation. The event has been at the center of controversy for years and there are those who support the choice of the first citizen
The president of the Columbus Heritage Foundation: 'The lack of respect for the Italian-American communities and the fact that he does not participate in the parade confirms this' (ANSA)
Mayor Mamdani Skips Columbus Day Parades in NYC
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declined Brooklyn’s Columbus Day Parade invitation and never answered Queens organizers, a move Italian American residents called a slap in the face to their community. The Mayor’s Office told Brooklyn organizers on Thursday that Mamdani would not attend their annual Columbus Day Parade along 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst. Organizers […]
Mamdani snubs Brooklyn Columbus Day Parade, ghosts Queens organizers: ‘slap in the face’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani slapped New York City’s Italian American community in the face again Saturday -- snubbing Brooklyn’s annual Columbus Day Parade and ghosting organizers of a similar event in Queens.
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