 Every year on the second weekend of August in honor of Back To School, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the "Dancing of the Giglio" is performed while thousands of visitors and onlookers celebrate the once largest Italian community in New York City.The "New York Post" describes the restaurant as "one of the hardest places to get into in the city".Notable patrons of the eatery have included John Gotti, Anthony Scaramucci, Rudy Giuliani, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Matt Sullivan, Paul Vario, Anthony Salerno, Henry Hill, Steven Crea, Michael Rosenthal, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and many New York members of La Cosa Nostra.