The Galbani Italian Heritage and Food Festival of Buffalo will take place July 14-15-16-17 on a six-block stretch of Hertel Avenue between Delaware and Colvin avenues in North Buffalo's Little Italy. It will be open between 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily, rain or shine.

What to expect: This amounts to the second largest Italian street festival in the nation, behind only New York City's annual Feast of San Gennaro (held, usually, in September). This year's event, the 29th at the Hertel Avenue location, is expected to draw some 500,000 visitors, so many of whom will be eager to be "Italian," if only for a while.

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Source: http://www.newyorkupstate.com/