Hundreds gathered at Pier A Park last Thursday Aug. 27 for the 10th Annual Hoboken Spaghetti Dinner Block Party, which included ziti, rigatoni, meatballs, sausages, garlic bread, and all the pasta you could eat.
“There’s always a couple hundred people that come out for a great way to end the summer,” – Gerri Fallo
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According to Fallo, the event was first held on the 150th anniversary of Hoboken’s founding in 2005. During the planning for that sesquicentennial commemoration, someone said the city had thrown a pasta dinner on Washington Street for the city’s 100th anniversary in 1955. So the city chose to revive the event on Hoboken’s revamped waterfront, which provides dazzling views of the Manhattan skyline.
Paterson caterer, the Brownstone catered the block party and proceeds from drink sales benefited the Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps.