New York’s Feast of San Gennaro and Preserving Tradition

New York’s Feast of San Gennaro and Preserving Tradition
Danny Fratta speaks to The Epoch Times in front of his zeppole stand on Sept. 22, 2018. Shenghua Sung/The Epoch Times
Andrew Thomas
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NEW YORK—When Danny Fratta was growing up in Little Italy, a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, there was a community feast every weekend in the summer.

“The Neapolitans settled here on Mulberry Street; the Sicilians were on Elizabeth Street; the Calabreses were on Mott Street … and everyone had a saint,” Fratta told The Epoch Times.