Source: New York Post
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman on Friday accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of intentionally leaving Little Italy off a map of the Big Apple’s immigrant enclaves. The map, titled “New York City Immigrant Enclaves,” highlights 30 areas across the five boroughs, ranging from Koreatown in Manhattan to Little Pakistan in Brooklyn and Little Yemen in The Bronx But notably left off the map was the famous Italian-American neighborhood in Manhattan, sparking a steady wave of outrage since early July. “I think it was intentional that not only the Little Italy here, down in Lower Manhattan on Mulberry Street, was left off as an important immigration point, but also Little Odessa in Brooklyn, and Astoria, where the Greek Americans came from, Hell’s Kitchen, where the Irish Americans came from,” Blakeman told The Post at event in the slighted neighborhood.
