For 137 years, Italian Catholics in Brooklyn have carried on a powerful tradition: lifting a 4-ton statue of Saint Paulinus and parading it through the neighborhood. Through heatwaves, rainstorms, wars, and pandemics, this community has kept the Giglio Feast alive across generations. Now, the tradition faces its greatest threat yet—corporate condo takeovers. Sky-high apartments and soaring rents have transformed this once predominantly Italian, working-class neighborhood into a desolate landscape of chain stores, matcha lattes, and barre studios.Can this last remnant of true street festival culture survive the wave of corporate development? Can the incoming transplants embrace the culture of their new neighborhood?Get a good gauge on the answers now, in the player below or over at VICE’s YouTube channel.The post Watch: Italian Catholics Fight to Survive in Gentrified Brooklyn appeared first on VICE.