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Rochester – West Side – Gates (the Little Italy of upstate New York) Rome – 30.2% Italian-American; Rotterdam; Schenectady; Solvay; Syracuse. Eastwood; Little Italy – on the city's North Side; Troy – Hillary Clinton has proposed a "Little Italy" section in the city. Utica – 28% Italian-American, concentrated in East Utica; Watertown
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Little Italy is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. The concept of "Little Italy" holds many different aspects of the Italian culture .
Little Italy in Erie, Pennsylvania has the largest Italian-American population in the city. [263] In Philadelphia, Italian immigrants initially settled in Bella Vista on the city's south side. [264] Little Italy, Los Angeles, California (historic; now Chinatown). [265] Little Italy, Manhattan, New York City – now engulfed by expanded Chinatown.
Little Italy in Chicago, 1909. From 1880 to 1914, 13 million Italians migrated out of Italy, [54] making Italy the scene of one of the largest voluntary emigrations in recorded world history. [55] During this period of mass migration, 4 million Italians arrived in the United States, 3 million of them between 1900 and 1914. [56]
Mulberry Street, c. 1900 Mulberry Street is a principal thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States.It is historically associated with Italian-American culture and history, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the heart of Manhattan's Little Italy.
Little Italy used to encompass a much bigger area, but the construction of the university decimated the neighborhood. Many of the residents in the area were against the idea. Florence Scala, Chicago's legendary Taylor Street activist and longtime Hull House cohort, blamed the board of directors of Hull House for betraying the thriving, vibrant ...