A piece of New York City history is bidding arrivederci. Rising rents and changing demographics have driven Little Italy to the verge of extinction. Once a teeming neighborhood stretching 50 square ...
History: The 48-square-block neighborhood’s roots as an enclave for working-class immigrants run deep. From the turn of the 20th century through the 1960s, Little Italy’s legion of predominantly ...
Raise the rents, take the cannoli: Little Italy is disappearing. The downtown neighborhood — long a haven for immigrant families from the old country — was once threatened by an ever-expanding ...
History: The 48-square-block neighborhood’s roots as an enclave for working class immigrants run deep. From the turn of the 20th Century through the 1960s, Little Italy’s legion of predominantly ...