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Ferragosto

Bronx, NY · Food & Drink

When

September 13, 2026

Where

Arthur Avenue at East 187th Street · Bronx · NY

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A free street festival on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx's Little Italy, started by neighborhood merchants over 25 years ago to mark the Italian mid-August holiday. Italian food stalls and live entertainment fill the block for the day.

The history within reach

• Ferragostosame spot

  A free street festival on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx's Little Italy, started by neighborhood merchants over 25 years ago to mark the Italian mid-August holiday.

• Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the parish that made Belmont Italian0.2 mi

  The first Mass was said in a storefront on East 187th Street in June 1906, for Italian families who had come up from Lower Manhattan, many of them to work on the zoo and the botanical garden going up nearby.

• Arthur Avenue, the Bronx's real Little Italy0.4 mi

  Italian labourers building the zoo and the garden settled beside them, and the market Fiorello La Guardia forced the pushcart vendors into in 1940 is still trading.

• Ota Benga displayed at the Bronx Zoo0.6 mi

  In September 1906 the zoo put a Mbuti man from the Congo, brought to the United States by the explorer Samuel Verner, in the monkey house alongside an orangutan.

• Bronx Borough Hall, lost to fire above Tremont0.6 mi

  George B.