Little Italy
Storied immigrant enclave where Italian tenements and red-sauce restaurants line Mulberry Street.
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This guide to Little Italy in New York City traces the five surviving blocks of a neighborhood that once packed nearly ten thousand Italian immigrants from Naples and Sicily into its tenements. It follows a modest 1926 street chapel and block party for the patron saint San Gennaro, thrown by families holding onto home in a new country. Stand on Mulberry Street to hear how that single day grew into a tradition still marked here every September.
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