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New York City is definitely the best, though Chinatown has been leaking in more and more.
It's a shame what happened to Newark's 7th Ave which used to be its Little Italy section, it just disappeared over time... I never got to see it (i don't think i was even alive when it existed). I've heard good things about it from the past. Home of the biggest catholic cathedral in America
Here's a link about it if anyone is interested, Seventh Avenue, Newark, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newark used to be very Italian influenced, especially in that area.
San Diego's little Italy isn't even that good. It's like one small section and it dosent even look like Italy rather a plain and boring looking condo and loft area.
Are there even any Italians in San Diego? Cleveland St. Louis
Pittsburgh 16% Italian; Providence and Hartford 18%; Boston ~15% and these cities don't have better Little Italys than cities with under 5% (i.e. St. Louis; San Diego). (Metro area figures).
I'd say New Jersey itself is a little Italy.
Cleveland has a large Italian population, although most are in various suburbs. San Diego not so much.
The northeast definitely has the most Italian ethnicity.
FYI to all you fools making Pizza Hut comments about Cleveland, it has the 8th largest Italian population in the country.
As already mentioned the North End should be on this list. Also, I would think the La Boca would be very authentic considering Argentina's largest ethnicity is Italian.
San Diego's Little Italy should not be on this list. Chicago's is not that great either.
I'm not really sure how San Diego made this list and not SF or Boston. It's nice for SD but compared to other cities with a much heavier presence of ethnic Italians, it's nothing I would put on a Top 10 list for Italian neighborhoods. I wonder what criteria they used and who they asked, maybe they asked a bunch of military men or something, who knows. Also I hope this is just a general list and not ranked list b/c placing SD at #2 is even more ridiculous than it making the list to begin with.
My two favorite Little Italies would definitely be SF and NYC. Both seem to have their respective Chinatown's encroaching on them more and more it seems though. Never been but Boston's North End sounds and looks pretty cool too.
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Originally Posted by Hollywood Inquirer
San Diego's little Italy isn't even that good. It's like one small section and it dosent even look like Italy rather a plain and boring looking condo and loft area.
Are there even any Italians in San Diego? Cleveland St. Louis
Pittsburgh 16% Italian; Providence and Hartford 18%; Boston ~15% and these cities don't have better Little Italys than cities with under 5% (i.e. St. Louis; San Diego). (Metro area figures).
I'd say New Jersey itself is a little Italy.
A little Italy isn't about how many Italians live in a metro area. It's about how many Italians and Italian type business' are conjugated in a certain area.
So if St. Louis' metro population is 5% Italian (140,000) and 10% of those live on "da Hill" then that's 14,000 Italians in less than a sq. mile.
And I agree, Boston's North End should have been included.
New York City is hands down the best.. but I do LOVE Murray Hill in Cleveland.
And once again... ignorant people asking if there are Italians in Cleveland.. LOL... The Cleveland area has one of the largest Italian populations. Why do people like ainulinale make such dumb and uniformed comments when they have no idea what they are talking about.. Next thing ainulinale will tell me there isn't a large Puerto Rican population here either
Christ, most of the people I've met in Cleveland are either Italian or Irish... but I guess I wouldn't know because I'm not living here or anything.. LOL There needs to be an internet smackdown
This threads a perfect example about how dumb the little kids on City Data are.. Do you people seriously know nothing about Cleveland yet comment on it anyway? WOW! LOL
Let me guess.. Cleveland and Youngstown didn't have some of the larger Italian Mobs too, right? Cleveland wasn't called "Bomb City USA" in the 70s because of so many Mob hits.. correct? Cleveland metro doesn't have the 8th most Italians, correct? Ohio doesn't have the 7th most Italians, correct?
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Are there even any Italians in San Diego? Cleveland
