Among the items raised on Sunday at a festival in East Harlem — aside, of course, from the giglio, an 83-foot-tall wooden tower built in honor of St. Anthony of Padua — was a question of moral geography: Do New Yorkers actually have to live in a neighborhood to claim it as their own?

The overwhelming answer, at least according to the members of the Giglio Society of East Harlem, was absolutely not. "I moved out of here in 1970," said Phil Bruno, a 63-year-old Long Islander, who has been taking part in the festival since he was a child, "but this is still home to me. There's just a feeling in East Harlem — for all of us. It's in your heart."

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