2022 Little Italy Days

Little Italy Days started in 2002 as a community festival to celebrate Bloomfield’s Italian heritage with a parade and party where local businesses and churches set up about a dozen or so booths selling Italian fare and goods.

In 2012, the event was taken over by festival organizer Sal Richetti, a native of Bloomfield (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), who expanded Little Italy Days’ scope with performance stages and additional vendors, some from out of the area. The festival now attracts hundreds of booths.

This transformed Little Italy Days into a massive street festival, and the crowds followed. Richetti has said the festival attracts more than 100,000 attendees over four days.

As Little Italy Days grew, it also started to garner some community pushback, with some businesses on Liberty Avenue and local residents criticizing the festival for becoming too disruptive. Some businesses even close up shop completely during Little Italy Days, even as others praise the extra business the festival brings.

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