Carnival & Fair News

HAMBURG, NEW YORK – The all-time attendance record for the Erie County Fair was shattered as the “Best 12 Days of Summer” in Western New York State concluded Sunday night. Final 2019 attendance is 1,238,456. This number represents a 3.3% increase from 2018 and makes 2019’s number the highest attended Fair in the history of the Erie County Agricultural Society. The previous all-time record was achieved in 2014 (1,220,101).  Highlights of the 180th Erie County Fair include sold out and recording breaking attendance for a number of concerts at the Gusto Grandstand, an expanded I-Hub Pavilion featuring STEM related activities and displays, new dairy, viticulture and maple sugar exhibits in the Agriculture Discovery Center and the return of the famous Sky Wheel to the midway.  During the first weekend of the Fair, the James E. Strates Shows announced that it had broken the all-time, single day gross revenue record at the Erie County Fair on Saturday, ...   [read more]

Philomena (Phyllis) Biancardi, co-owner of Yonkers, New York based Ace Amusements, passed away peacefully on Monday, August 12, 2019. Phyllis was predeceased by her husband, John and her dear son, Ralph.  She is survived by her daughters, Madeline (Tommy) Murray, Joanna (Mario) Valentini and Roseanna Biancardi (Freddy).  Phyllis was a loving Nanny to Jenny (Bryan), John (Marisa), Maddy, Jennifer (Johnny), Phyllis and Rosie and her great-grandchildren, Juliana, Elizabeth and Alexander. Funeral Mass Friday, August 16, 2019 - 10:45 AM at Saint Barnabas Church, 409 East 241st Street, Bronx, New York with entombment to follow at Woodlawn Cemetery, East 233rd Street & Webster Avenue, Bronx, New York. The family will be present on Thursday from 3-8 PM at F Ruggiero & Sons, Inc., 732 Yonkers Avenue, Yonkers, New York.   [read more]