LITTLE ITALY, Little Italy

Hi, my name’s Jill, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: Little Italy.

Little Italy is the best-known Italian-American neighborhood in the United States, although the few places left – in particular, restaurants and food stores – are now run by fourth or fifth-generation Italians.

And as if this decline were not enough, the New York home of the Italian emigrants who settled here at the end of the nineteenth century is dramatically disappearing. The original area is now reduced to a short stretch of Mulberry Street, between Broome Street and Canal Street, while over the last twenty years, the southern areas have been gradually taken over by the nearby Chinatown, whose signs and stores are inexorably turning “100% made in Italy” into almost “100% made in China”!...