Keep the Columbus Monument

Please join us in celebrating our 90th year at the 2024 Columbus Day Luncheon.

The Columbus Monument Corporation invites you to join us for our Annual Columbus Day Luncheon Celebration at 12:00 p.m. on Monday October 14, 2024.  Our luncheon will be held at the Oncenter Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center, following a Wreath Laying ceremony at Columbus Circle at 11:00 a.m.  

You are also welcome to join us for a mass at Our Lady of Pompei/St. Peter Church at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday October 13, 2024. 

Join us to honor Police Chief Joseph L. Cecile, recipient of the 2024 Joseph J. Pietrafesa Award, for 39 years of dedicated service to the Syracuse Police Department.  Chief Cecile has demonstrated strong leadership during these especially challenging times. 

We will also be honoring the Carbon Street Neighbors, with this year’s Pirro Family “Santa Maria” Award, for their courage and assistance during the recent home explosion, demonstrating the essence of neighbors helping neighbors

We also ask that you consider a tax-deductible contribution to our campaign to preserve the Columbus Monument.  The battle is far from over, and your continued support for our campaign is needed more than ever.  

Tickets for the luncheon are $50 per person and $500 for a table of ten.  A vegetarian meal option will be available, please indicate your preference when ordering tickets.

All checks should be made payable to Columbus Monument Corporation, and sent to:

Columbus Monument Corporation 

c/o Ginny Lostumbo, Treasurer

6715 Buckley Road   Apt. 230

North Syracuse, NY 13212

If you have any questions, you may contact Ginny Lostumbo  at 315-422-7750.

THANK YOU. 

Sincerely

Mark A. Nicotra

President, Columbus Monument CorporationThe Columbus Monument Corporation is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit. For more information go to www.ColumbusMonumentSyracuse.com

Join the Columbus Monument Corp and other Italian groups on Saturday Sept 21 for Italian Night, as the Syracuse Mets take on the Charlotte Knights. A great night out as we all support our heritage!

You can buy your tickets here.

2024 Columbus Day Celebration – Come and celebrate 90 years of immigrants honoring their Syracuse citizenship

Mayors come and go, but we endure. Come join us for this momentous occasion.

This is our 90th Year. We aren’t going away

Yesterday, the state Court of Appeals rejected the Columbus Monument Corporation’s request to appeal a lower court’s decision that tossed their attempts to block the removal of the statue.

On Thursday, New York’s highest court announced they would not hear the case. This decision means that the state’s Fourth Appellate Department’s ruling that paved the way for the city to remove the statue will stand.

Importantly, the appellate court did not rule on whether the city has the power to remove the statue. Instead, it found that the monument corporation’s lawsuit was filed prematurely because the decision to remove the statue had not gone through all the administrative steps needed for approval.

Of course, had we not taken action early in the process, the monument might already have been destroyed.

As soon as the City and Mayor Walsh follow the prescribed process necessary to destroy the historic Columbus Monument, we will be back in court.

Please stay with us in this fight. Mayors come and go. We have been around for 90 years, and we aren’t going away now!

Join us on the Columbus Monument Corp float!

Photo by Nicholas Lisi/The Post Standard

For the first time ever, the Columbus Monument Corp is having a float in the Syracuse St. Patrick’s Day Parade! Come out and join us to celebrate the heritage of all European immigrants!

Our float will include models of the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria and a banner celebrating our 90th anniversary. Please come walk along side of us.

Be at the intersection of Erie Blvd and West St. at 12:15 on Saturday. We are in the Leinster Division, about the middle of the parade.

See you all there!

We are very thankful to all of you who have been so supportive in working to save Syracuse’s historic Columbus Monument

A big THANK YOU to the hundreds of you who came out to the SAVE OUR STATUE Rally at Columbus Circle this morning, despite the pouring rain. With participants from across the spectrum of Syracuse citizens, this sends a strong signal to Ben Walsh that our entire community cares about this important, historic tribute, and that it should stay right where it is.

TOMORROW SAT OCT 7 @ 10 am RAIN or SHINE Columbus Circle

The current administration at City Hall is planning to remove the statue by noted Italian sculptor Lorenzo Baldi that has stood at Columbus Circle for 89 years. 

The city wants to take our statue down, and they are taking steps to remove it soon. We must take collective action to stop them and block them. 

We must all speak out against the proposed removal of this artwork and the city’s attempted erasure of an iconic part of our shared heritage that was created by the people of Syracuse. If we do not attend tomorrow’s rally and speak out, the statue could be taken down.

In order to halt the statue’s impending removal, speakers representing various nationalities and ethnic groups will be gathering at 10:00 am tomorrow morning to speak in favor of the statue’s retention and our desire to preserve an important part of Syracuse’s history and one of our finest examples of public Art. We ask that you join us to ensure that your voices will be heard.

Saturday Oct 7 at 10 am. Columbus Circle Syracuse