Brooklyn’s very own ‘Ice Cream Girl‘, Maria Campanella, along with State Senator Marty Golden, will be hosting her 2nd annual ice cream eating contest this Friday, July 25th, at Kingsborough Community College – benefiting 19 year-old Ciro Patalano, who is battling leukeamia.
Maria — known throughout Brooklyn, from Bay Ridge all the way to the Marlborough Projects — turned the ice cream business her father started 50 years ago, into a 4 wheel goodwill tour.

In 2004, the Bensonhurst native won the New York Post Liberty Medal for a lifetime of community service, having tirelessly devoted herself to causes such as the local Red Cross, Heart Share, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Maria is best known for being a bundle of energy, and devoted community volunteer; so much so that in 2005 Campanella was formally dubbed a goodwill ambassador by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.

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“The carb-loading contest will be part of a “beach day” party, from 1 pm to 5 pm, on the beach at Kingsborough Community College, and will feature music by Staten Island DJ F2K and Italian ices from Marino’s.

There will be two rounds of ice cream eating, with a requirement of finishing three pints of Ben & Jerry’s in the first 15 minutes, so that only “the bruisers” go on to the second round.

“It’s going to be much stricter,” Campanella warned. “No one’s gonna be allowed to throw up and get back in the contest. Last time people were throwing up all over the place.”

More so than her banana splits or chocolate sundaes, Campanella has probably become best known for her youtube celebrity – having produced and starred in 16 YouTube videos (and counting).

Below, everything you always wanted to know about Maria Campanella.