The feast of St. Ann's and the Madonna dei Martiri in Hoboken, NJ are long-standing celebrations of Italian community and culture. These feasts were created to maintain cultural ties to southern Italy, primarily Monte San Giacomo (Salerno) and Molfetta (Puglia), where much of Hoboken’s Italian population originated. While the feasts remain, gentrification has been on the rise since the mid 1980s and many Italians who inhabited Hoboken during the last century have since left. Through focus groups, surveys, and interviews with Hoboken residents, current and former feast committee members, this  project aims to explore the impact that these cultural events have on a city as diverse as Hoboken and whether or not the religious and cultural themes of the feast still resonate.