 Sorry for my mistake there commissioner. Yes. Now. It's our opportunity here from the Italian council general sir Bonjour Natutti And thank you for being here define the heat It's very important to us You know ladies and gentlemen as a representative of Italy in New York City. I'm very pleased and actually proud To be here today with you on this important occasion and in this beautiful place The Italian Republic today celebrates its 77th anniversary And we'll honor this day by raising the Italian flag And I'd like really thank the municipality and the bowling green association for organizing this event with the consulate general on June 2nd 1946 Italian through a referendum Rejected the monarchy to compromise with the fastest regime This must be a fastest And chose the Republic We may indeed be a young Republic, but we are a very old nation and ancient civilization And all that's well deep are the bonds between Italy and New York City Next year as you heard several times will celebrate at the 500th anniversary Of the arrival at the Hudson Bay of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano Here not far away from here. It was the first European to arrive on this coast And to peacefully meet the native Lenape population Since then Pietro Alberti a Venetian seaman Who settled down in the then new Amsterdam came here in the 1935 and several other Italian follow his path Actually in the last century millions of Italian follow his past path and Since then New York City has become the biggest Italian city of the United States and one of the most Italian cities all over the world As a matter of fact Italian workers more than anybody else have built up This city and the grandeur of the city between the end of 19 at the beginning of 20th century The history of Italian migrants to New York City is an history of hope hard work Sacrifice and success We are proud of their contribution to the Building of prosperity not only in the city, but in the old united states In the past few decades a new generation of migrants has be as landed in New York City from Italy Businessmen researchers professors scientists lawyers designers artists many more All of them benefit from the unique opportunities that New York can offer them and at the same time They contribute to make and keep the city so extraordinary New York City today is so Italian by culture and lifestyle and actually some people have told me that New Yorkers Are dividing two categories Those who have Italian origins and those who would like to have Italian origins I don't know if it's true, but I like it In the end it's not surprising that the most photographed item in the old city Here behind us is the charging ball of the great Italian artist Arturo di Modica These artwork in only three decades has become an iconic symbol of the city Arturo di Modica built it to celebrate the grandeur and the power of the city and this country But today it symbolizes more than anything else The profound bond between New York and Italy And I'm now honored to introduce to you a sincere friend of Italy A real new york who grew up in brookling amidst Italians And today is committed to the daunting task of managing the city With vision courage and personality Ladies and gentlemen the mayor of New York City Eric Adams Thank you so much to Of just who has has become a real friend amazing council general and how he represents the community in a level of Humility but strength and courage And as was indicated the italian american community Really personifies what I believe is the spirit of america You could love your motherland and love your adopted land of america that is what makes us special And we see it every day And your benevolence does not stay within the boundaries of the community It actually goes beyond Of your community and helping others who are in need and it's a real Indicator of the contribution That you see throughout this entire city and country The contribution of italian americans from the areas of law enforcement To infrastructure development To song to music to dance to food and clearly Brother atoros thought of me when he decided to do his art Because i'm just like that bull I am not going to stop and with bullish on protecting our city And our country We embrace the same things We believe in family We believe in business We believe in our faith And we believe in public safety And so there's a common ground and one of the most difficult and painful moments came for me when I was a child And my mother shared with me Eric you are not italian you do not come from the southern part of italy But we will continue to lift up this community and i'm so proud to raise the flag And what the republic means to all of us As we continue to show the diversity we raised so many flags here at boling green And it shows the power of our diversity and the power of our strength The power of this american experience of bringing together the various cultures To show that we produce the one of the best products that mankind Has ever known and that is what makes us great. And so I want to call up Atoros representatives as we give this proclamation Today it stands proudly In brooklyn this important bull here at boling green so many people come here and line up to take photos It is A symbol of hope and universal optimism continues to resonate with all who see it this day His stories atoros story is one of our city's most quintessential narratives of immigration filled with love for both countries And a wealth of success and joy And our multicultural multifaceted melting pot At today's ceremony in manhattan historic boling green park Italian new yorkers will commemorate The establishment of their mother country as a republic for by raising its green white and red flag I look forward to the many ways Everyone gathered will further invigorate new york as we unite to rebuild Renew and reinvent our global city eric adams Mayor of the city of new york. Thank you so much Mr. Mayor before before we raise the flags, mr. Mayor, by the way, I must tell you We've been raising the italian flag here since 1996 no mayor No mayor ever came here to raise the italian flag before mayor eric adams He has come here again and again and again and he will continue. He's a different kind of mayor He's a great mayor for new york city. Mr. Mayor There were a group of italians along with myself who want to finally see Charging bull have a recognition and a toro by a marker This is the marker. We hope you will approve very shortly so that we can place it under charging bull Next we will have the national anthems followed by a wonderful musical tribute to our toro by arino mestrangelli But first the flags I believe we're going to have a musical tribute to our toro in a moment. Thank you. Thank you. I don't want to say something please We talk about great italian americans and they're all over. I like to introduce uh Uh once middleweight champ of the world an italian american Who came over from barry to brooklyn? Vito antephermo In a mestrangelli italian talented singer songwriter in a tribute to our toro I want to say two words. I actually met arturo a few years ago And I had the chance to sing at an event in his honor Um This is one of my songs actually and it's titled vivere davvero to live fully And I want to dedicate it to arturo di modica As an artist to totally live fully his life and he fulfilled his purpose as an artist And that's truly inspiring to me vivere davvero