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New York City is home to the largest Italian-American population in North America and third largest Italian population outside of Italy, according to the 2000 census. See also Italians in New York City for more info.
The geographic shift coincided with a new wave of Italian immigration. An estimated 129,000 to 150,000 Italian immigrants entered New York City between 1945 and 1973. Bypassing Manhattan, they settled in Italian American neighborhoods in the outer boroughs and helped reinvigorate Italian culture and community institutions.
Little Italy (also Italian: Piccola Italia) is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, known for its former Italian population. [2] It is bounded on the west by Tribeca and Soho, on the south by Chinatown, on the east by the Bowery and Lower East Side, and on the north by Nolita.
The neighborhood became known as "Italian Harlem", the Italian American hub of Manhattan; it was the first part of Manhattan to be referred to as "Little Italy". [16] The first Italians arrived in East Harlem in 1878, from Polla in the province of Salerno , and settled in the vicinity of 115th Street.
They settled in Italian American neighborhoods in the outer boroughs and helped reinvigorate Italian culture and community institutions. [133] With the influx of postwar immigrants, Bensonhurst became the largest Italian community in New York City, with 150,000 Italian Americans in the 1980 census.
In Syracuse, they created an Italian-American community made up of immigrants from several regions of Italy and their descendants. By 2010, demographics showed that 14.1% of the population in Syracuse was of Italian descent. [2] Many had also settled in Lyncourt, New York, a suburb on the northside of the city. [3] [4]
Arthur Avenue is a street in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, which serves as the center of the Bronx's "Little Italy". [1] Although the historical and commercial center of Little Italy is Arthur Avenue itself, the area stretches across East 187th Street from Arthur Avenue to Beaumont Avenue, and is similarly lined with delis, bakeries, cafes and various Italian merchants.
World map of first level subdivisions (states, counties, provinces, etc.) that are home to Little Italys or Italian neighbourhoods. 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.