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# Bensonhurst’s Columbus Day Parade is This Saturday
- URL: https://bklyner.com/bensonhursts-columbus-day-parade-saturday/
- Published: 2017-10-05T14:50:07.000Z
- Updated: 2017-10-05T21:35:22.000Z
- Author: BKLYNER Events
- Tags: Announcements, Bensonhurst, Events, News, Nonsponsored, Politics, Transportation, Western Brooklyn, 18th Avenue, columbus day parade, #wp

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BENSONHURST – This Saturday, for the 36th time 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, which also bears the name of Cristoforo Colombo Boulevard, will host the annual **[Columbus Day Parade](/tag/columbus-day-parade/)**.

This year, the Grand Marshals will be Councilmember Mark Treyger, Deputy Inspector Anthony Sanseverino (62nd precinct), Nick Pesce of [**LaBella Market Place** on 13th Avenue](http://www.labellamarkets.com/?ref=bklyner.com) and Francesca Novella LoCurcio (Principal of PS/IS209) according to the **[Federation of Italian-American Organizations](http://www.fiaobrooklyn.org/?ref=bklyner.com)** that organizes the event.

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-4.58.50-PM.png)

The parade will start at noon at the corner of 60th Street and 18th Avenue and will proceed down 18th Avenue to Benson Avenue.

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-4.58.10-PM.png)

But as many things in New York –[ **it’s complicated**](/mixed-feelings-about-celebrating-columbus-for-indigenous-guatemalans-in-southern-brooklyn-bensonhurst/).

For now, t[here seems to be no movement to strip the avenue of its name,](http://abc7ny.com/politics/monument-fight-takes-aim-at-columbus-statue-confederate-streets/2332381/?ref=bklyner.com) though the city is [developing guidelines on how to deal with historically controversial monuments and markers](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/nyregion/columbus-statue-de-blasio-monument-commission.html?ref=bklyner.com) that should be complete by mid-November.

Earlier this summer there were repeated calls for renaming streets in Fort Hamilton that are [named after Confederate generals Lee and Jackson](/congresswoman-continues-to-call-for-fort-hamilton-street-renaiming/).