Joe Piscopo and Chazz Palminteri have rescinded their acceptance of an invitation to attend Mayor de Blasio’s salute to Italian-American Heritage on Thursday at Gracie Mansion.
They are boycotting to protest the mayor’s 18-member panel charged with identifying monuments on public grounds deemed “oppressive and inconsistent with the values of New York City.”
Piscopo has been a fierce advocate of making sure the Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Circle is never removed.