Changes coming to Bensonhurst’s Santa Rosalia Feast
Community Board 11 wants shorter route, fewer days
One of Bensonhurst’s time-honored traditions, the Santa Rosalia Feast on 18th Avenue, will have a different look in 2014, if the city goes along with a set of recommendations made by Community Board 11.
The community board is asking the city to shorten the route of the Italian-flavored street fair by two blocks, District Manager Marnee Elias-Pavia announced at the board’s Nov. 14 meeting. The board would also like the festival reduced by two days, so that it would run for eight days instead of 10.
Under the community board’s plan, the route of the street fair would run for six blocks along 18th Avenue from Bay Ridge Parkway (75th Street) to Bay Ridge Avenue (69th Street). In previous years, the festival route stretched for eight blocks, from Bay Ridge Parkway to 67th Street.