The Question: How does a mayor of New York City manage to leave “Little Italy” off a New York City map of ethnic communities?
Answer: It happens when that mayor is 1) a Muslim, 2) hostile to other ethnic, cultural and religious cultures, 3) raised by parents who themselves were estranged from American culture, and 4) has no management or governing experience, and 5) has assembled a staff whose radical ideological orientations are compatible with his but who mirror his deficits in orientation, experience and and training.
The result was the “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” map above, released and now going “viral” on social media after someone actually looked at it and noticed that the map omits “Little Italy” as well as Jewish and Irish neighborhoods while highlighting 30 other immigrant communities across the five boroughs. The careless map is part of the city’s Neighborhood Passport campaign tied to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
That’s kind of embarrassing, don’t you think? Here’s another question for fully acculturated Americans: What is the first “ethnic enclave” in New York City that comes to mind after Harlem? Surely the answer is “Little Italy,” which features so prominently in the iconic film “The Godfather, Part 2.” Not only is the famous and unanimously praised movie embedded in pop culture history and still routinely shown on cable’s various movie channels, it is near “Casablanca” as having one of the most quoted screenplays of all: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,” “This is the like we have chosen,” “I just want to wet my beak,”and others.
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I would guess he also never went to Bensonhurst, or Park Slope!
As one who grew up and educated in NYC I am disheartened by the contemporary NYERS who voted for this schmuck!
This is an ongoing change, not a sudden change. David Dinkins? Mark Green? Bill DeBlasio? Just a few in the larger gaggle. Now Mamdani. It’s not only the Dunning-Kruger curve, which always clusters NYC voters at its very beginning of. It’s also the “Shifting Baseline Syndrome.” Mamdani is the new baseline for tomorrow’s voters.
I’m sure Park Slope is all in on Mamdani. It’s been all LGBTQ for decades.
To be fair, many people have years of “management experience” and are still incompetent. Higher ed is full of them, as it much of corporate America.
Fair indeed.
“Nothing personal. It’s just business.”
Surely the reason Little Italy was omitted is because Italy didn’t make it into the 48-team World Cup finals!
A great article explaining what causes a phenomenon like Mamdani. Gad Saad on Suicidal Empathy and Western Decline – WSJ
Things change. There are no Italian immigrants in Little Italy any more. They’re long gone. It’s not an ethnic enclave, just a tourist trap. I used to live in Sunnyside, Queens, when it was still largely populated by Irish immigrants. Now it’s not and it’s rightly not shown on the map as an Irish enclave.
I agree that Mayor Mamdani is taking NYC down a dark road. But this map is not one of the things I hate about him.