Exclusive | Meet the heaving, huffing ‘lifters’ who hoist the 4-ton Giglio at Brooklyn’s wild Italian bacchanal: ‘By the time the day is over, you’re just dead’
Everybody loves a par-ayyy-de. An Italian Brooklyn tradition for over a century, Williamsburg’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast draws hundreds of thousands to an annual bacchanal of sausage, peppers and spectacle, courtesy of the festival’s main character — the gigantic Giglio, a four-ton, 72-foot statue “danced” through sweltering streets by a team of 120 … Read more
