9th Ave. International Food & Street Festival (Event Over)

Since it began in 1973, this festival has become an amazing celebrating of food and culture that brings in over a million visitors each yer.  From 37th Street to 57th Street, Ninth Avenue closes to cars and the festival takes over.
The festival is a fabulous expression of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood - teeming with ethnic food shops and fine restaurants and offering an eclectic global smorgasbord of national and regional foods.

Outside venders participate as well, but the Ninth Avenue merchants and restaurants and the community organizations of Hell's Kitchen are out in all their neighborhood glory.
The types of food featured include Argentinian, Brazilian, Cajun, Chinese, Cuban, Dominican, Ethiopian, French, German, Greek, Haitian, Indian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Moroccan, Pakistani, Polish, Puerto Rican, Peruvian, Senegalese, Sicilian, Southern, Spanish, Thai, Trinidadian, Turkish, and Ukrainian.