any heavily italian areas left? (besides SI) (New York, Pelham: neighborhoods, school)
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Howard Beach, Queens I believe still us. There are a few pockets but not nearly as many as there were. Its been a long time since a large influx of Italian immigrants. Many of the Italian Americans now are mixed with other nationalities and live all over the US.
certain neighborhoods in The Bronx are still very Italian.Arthur Avenue is still claimed by some to be "the real Little Italy" of New York. Although there are not very many Italians still living there the restaurants, bakeries and other shops are still going strong and it has maintained a very ethnic flavor.Morris Park is still a heavily Italian neighborhood and they have many good restaurants,bakeries,butchers ,etc and have their own Columbus Day parade .
My vote goes to Howard Beach. Ozone Park, Whitestone, Middle Village, Bensonhurst, any former Italian hoods in the Bronx, etc have become significantly mixed relatively recently.
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Most of Long Island is pretty Italian. I think many of the italians end up moving to the suburbs. People I know growing up on Long Island who were nearly 100% italian had their family move to the suburbs once the kids reached school age.
My vote goes to Howard Beach. Ozone Park, Whitestone, Middle Village, Bensonhurst, any former Italian hoods in the Bronx, etc have become significantly mixed relatively recently.
Scratch out Ozone Park and otherwise these about about it. Howard Beach, Whitestone, and Middle Village don't really have an ethnic feel to them, they are just mostly typical white areas with a large proportion of Italian Americans. Bensonhurst is more mixed now, but still have a Italian feel to it. I never been to Authur Avenue or Morris Park/Pelham Bay. I wonder how Italian those neighborhoods are.
Not really thanks to our good friend gentrification. Rising rents city wide and adding millions of Pennsyltuckyians by the second to push the bad element (this is not race or ethnicity specific) farther into the boroughs has ruined the fabric of these once great strongholds of working class Italian America.
I know what your response will be. "But they chose to leave. They could have stayed." Wrong. When your block goes from tight community and leaving doors unlocked to a newcomer's doormat where they come speaking a different language and are as clean as a pig on a farm, you cannot stay because your quality of life is lowered. Newcomer will not be your friend and will instead disrespect your generational tenure or try to take advantage of you for their own good. Therefore you have to package up the good memories and move onward to a place with a similar or better quality of life.
Looking forward, these Italian neighborhoods will survive only in the memories of those who knew them.
it is better that way, they got beaches, and there is nothing better than seeing hot LI italian girls at the beach hubba hubba hubba
but by the time they all grow, they just move to NYC anyways to become the yuppies
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, are there any italian areas left in NYC besides SI?
