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Long Island Pizza Festival

Uniondale, NY · Food & Drink

When

September 19, 2026

Where

Nassau Coliseum Outdoor Plaza · Uniondale · NY

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A single-food festival dedicated to pizza, founded by Long Island pizzeria owner Frank Antonetti and partners. It debuted in 2025 at Mill Dam Park in Huntington and moved to the Nassau Coliseum plaza for its second year.

The history within reach

• The Islanders win four in a rowsame spot

  An expansion team eight years old won the Stanley Cup and then won it again the next spring, and the next, and the next, nineteen straight playoff series over four years, a record no team in the four major leagues has touched since.

• Long Island Pizza Festivalsame spot

  A single-food festival dedicated to pizza, founded by Long Island pizzeria owner Frank Antonetti and partners.

• Mitchel Field, the Army's airfield on the Hempstead Plains0.3 mi

  It opened in 1918 as Hazelhurst Aviation Field No.

• The Hempstead Plains, a prairie in New York0.5 mi

  The only true prairie east of the Appalachians once ran for forty square miles across the middle of the island, treeless grassland that startled every colonist who saw it, grazed in common, raced on, and later paved almost entirely over.

• Hofstra hosts three presidential debates in a row0.8 mi

  Obama and McCain debated here on 15 October 2008, the night Joe the Plumber entered the campaign.