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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. From the streets of the San Gennaro Festival that
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  Speaker 2: continues until Sunday, it was me and Natalie Migliore there yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, it was packed. Because remember, Yom Kippur meant
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people. were not working because it was
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  Speaker 2: a Jewish holiday. Not that they were Jews there, but Gentiles.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there were some.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not ratting anybody out.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to see the movie. I heard that
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  Speaker 3: she was videotaping the entire time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not only that, we tried some Zeppole. Curtis treated
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  Speaker 4: me to some Zeppole. That was the treat at the
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  Speaker 4: end of him shaking hands every three seconds. And me
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  Speaker 4: interviewing people about what's just been going on recently regarding
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  Speaker 4: the Italian American community here in New York. And if
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  Speaker 4: you're wondering what is going on. in the Italian-American community. Well,
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  Speaker 4: it's the San Gennaro Festival, so we had a grand
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  Speaker 4: old time doing that. But also, there's been a lot
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  Speaker 4: coming out of it because one of the more recent
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  Speaker 4: issues is how Mayor Mondani leaving the area off the
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  Speaker 4: map of the city's immigrant enclaves. If you remember earlier
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  Speaker 4: this summer, that was a bit of an issue. So
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  Speaker 4: as people were in a very good mood, we brought
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  Speaker 4: it down a little bit because the Italian-Americans from New
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  Speaker 4: York Larry Curtis, you should know this by now, no
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  Speaker 4: mincing words here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you, I feel it's a complete disgrace.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, these are the people that were here first.
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  Speaker 3: They built this space.
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  Speaker 5: Disrespectful. You know, doing something like that to us, that
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  Speaker 5: we've been here a hundred years with a festival like.
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  Speaker 3: This, and we kind of built New York, and... I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I hope we all figure it out soon.
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  Speaker 1: He's deliberately trying to change the history of New York
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  Speaker 1: City to match his political agenda because he only cares
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  Speaker 1: about himself.
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  Speaker 4: It's a shame. It's a shame. This is a New
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  Speaker 4: York institution. And it's a shame they took off the list. Now, Larry,
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  Speaker 4: who sounds more Italian-American to you out of the whole.
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  Speaker 3: List of people? As you've been talking, you've gotten to
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  Speaker 3: be more and more Italian-American during this story.
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  Speaker 4: I was with my people! Now, earlier this summer, the
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  Speaker 4: mayor had said he didn't make the list. He just
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  Speaker 4: updated it from... Mayor Adams administration saying it was originally
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  Speaker 4: left off the list anyway. So now, OK, the organizers
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  Speaker 4: of the Columbus Day Parade invited Mamdani to march with them. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the mayor has said, if you remember, he is not
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  Speaker 4: going to be the mayor of parades. Remember, he said
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  Speaker 4: he wouldn't attend all these all these marches and parades.
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  Speaker 4: But what do Italian New Yorkers think of just the
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  Speaker 4: group extending the invite?
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  Speaker 5: You want to know something? It's showing that we are
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  Speaker 5: a race of people that are loving, we're forgiving, you
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  Speaker 5: do your thing, just don't step on anybody's toes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think everyone's welcome to Columbus Day, but
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  Speaker 2: I think there's plenty of factors for why he shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: go in light of a lot of the current circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Disgracia, I think it's an embarrassment because when somebody tries
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  Speaker 1: to downgrade who you are to that low of a level,
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  Speaker 1: Why would you want them there?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he should go.
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  Speaker 3: He should go.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he should go to every single parade.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to show up.
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  Speaker 4: If he wants to be the mayor of New York,
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  Speaker 4: he needs to show up and not just be the
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  Speaker 4: mayor of his people.
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  Speaker 3: Now, many times you go out in the street and
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  Speaker 3: you come back and you go, I'm having a hard
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  Speaker 3: time getting anybody. It sounds like there, people lined up.
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  Speaker 3: They wanted to say what they had to say.
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  Speaker 4: Well, people lined up to meet Curtis and then I
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  Speaker 4: was like, hey, I'm with Curtis and we'd love your opinion.
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  Speaker 4: My favorite person.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite part was the background music.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I know.
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  Speaker 3: It was like there was not one quiet corner.
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  Speaker 4: Then we stopped these people. You finally stopped these people.
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  Speaker 4: I was not just doing video for us. I was
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  Speaker 4: like the designated picture taker for Curtis.
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  Speaker 3: No one knew who I was, which was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: And they were just like, oh, you're with him?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, I'm just waiting for my sepulies.
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  Speaker 1: And that was cool.
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  Speaker 4: That was really fun. So we got to interview a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of people who wanted to shake Curtis's hand. He's
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  Speaker 4: the celebrity everywhere we go. And maybe to give the
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  Speaker 4: mayor a better understanding of who we are as a people,
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  Speaker 4: the Italian Americans. Here are just some reasons you can't
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  Speaker 4: take away the pride of being an Italian-American, especially here
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  Speaker 4: in New York.
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  Speaker 5: The food, you know, that plant parm.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get it anywhere but homemade, and that's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my father makes it great. Everybody's looked out for one another.
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  Speaker 3: You got a problem? I got a problem.
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  Speaker 5: My father came here from Italy in 1928, and he
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  Speaker 5: came with nothing in his pocket, his whole family. I
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  Speaker 5: think they had 20 cents between the bunch of them, and.
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  Speaker 2: He worked his way up.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody in the family worked their way up, and they
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  Speaker 5: showed you what it was. Hard labor, hard working with
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  Speaker 5: your hands just to provide for the family.
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  Speaker 4: Now, let me tell you something. We were two different generations,
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  Speaker 4: Dennis and I, the guy who was just speaking. My
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  Speaker 4: dad isn't off the boat. My grandfather was. But when
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  Speaker 4: you talk to people like that, you just connect. Same thing.
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  Speaker 3: My dad.
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  Speaker 4: My dad gave everything for us, in a sense, and
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  Speaker 4: taught me what hard work is. That's why when I
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  Speaker 4: go out with a microphone and chase after people, Curtis,
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  Speaker 4: it's more fun than what my.
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  Speaker 5: Dad did, I think.
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  Speaker 3: And you were with your people. I can hear the
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  Speaker 3: language coming out more and more. Thanks for sending us out.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie Migliore is going to be back tomorrow morning at 7.50.