Maria Bartiromo: From Wall Steet to 5th Ave.

CNBC’s Italian Money Honey, Maria Bartiromo is once again hosting this year’s Columbus Day Parade in New York City, shown locally on WNBC, which means she’ll have to put up sitting next to co-host Joe Piscopo for the next few hours.

Could be worse… could be Dylan Ratigan.

We kid!

> More: Speaking of parades: did NBC force the cancellation of the cast of a popular FOX show from appearing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? TMZ thinks so…

Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.