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What neighborhoods throughout the city are prodominantly Italian? I live in Howard Beach and that's obviously one of them. My grandparents live up in Ozone Park but I don't think that's Italian anymore. Also, I heard Staten Island has a big Italian population. Thanks.
Italian where people actually speak Italian most of the day and go to Mass and confession in Italian ? or Italian as in 2nd or 3rd + generation Italian-American, filled with guidos and guidettes who don't pronounce vowels at the end of Italan words and who don't actually speak any Italian and have never been to Italy ?
What neighborhoods throughout the city are prodominantly Italian? I live in Howard Beach and that's obviously one of them. My grandparents live up in Ozone Park but I don't think that's Italian anymore. Also, I heard Staten Island has a big Italian population. Thanks.
I live right on the Glendale/Middle Village border and in Middle Village there's still plenty of Italian Americans.
Queens-
Howard Beach, Middle Village, Whitestone
Some other worthy mentions include Maspeth, Eastern Ridgewood, Glendale, Northern Astoria, Douglaston, Bayside, and Southern Ozone Park. These areas have a decent amount of Italians but they aren't the dominate ethnic group in them.
The Bronx-
Morris Park, Pelham Bay, Throgs Neck, and Authur Avenue in Belmont [not really an Italian neighborhood, but has plenty of Italian restaurants].
Brooklyn-
Carroll Gardens, Bensonhurst [although dwindling], Gravesend [also quickly declining], Dyker Heights, Bay Ridge, Mill Basin, Bergen Beach
Staten Island-
Most of Midland and the South Shore is very Italian. Easily the most Italian borough in the city.
Bensonhurst, most of Staten Island is Italian, Bay Ridge, East Harlem, Little Italy, Caroll Gardens
I never heard of Carroll Gardens having a lot of Italians, and I think most of the Italians in East Harlem and Little Italy are long gone.
But in any case, most of SI is still heavily Italian. Even in North Shore areas with a lot of Blacks and Hispanics, there are still a decent number of Italians.
I never heard of Carroll Gardens having a lot of Italians, and I think most of the Italians in East Harlem and Little Italy are long gone.
But in any case, most of SI is still heavily Italian. Even in North Shore areas with a lot of Blacks and Hispanics, there are still a decent number of Italians.
There used to be a lot of Italians in Carroll Gardens 20-30 years ago. But that list is way out of date. There are very few Italians left in East Harlem or Carroll Gardens, none at all actually living in Little Italy, and not that many in Bay Ridge, either.
People born in Italy, there are very few anywhere in NYC nowadays. Ethnic Italians, second or third generation, plenty all over the South Shore of Staten Island, Howard Beach, Whitestone, Middle Village/Glendale/Maspeth, Country Club, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach. Belle Harbor and Neponsit are substantially Italian as well, I think, but I'm less certain of that.
There used to be a lot of Italians in Carroll Gardens 20-30 years ago. But that list is way out of date. There are very few Italians left in East Harlem or Carroll Gardens, none at all actually living in Little Italy, and not that many in Bay Ridge, either.
People born in Italy, there are very few anywhere in NYC nowadays. Ethnic Italians, second or third generation, plenty all over the South Shore of Staten Island, Howard Beach, Whitestone, Middle Village/Glendale/Maspeth, Country Club, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach. Belle Harbor and Neponsit are substantially Italian as well, I think, but I'm less certain of that.
Yeah Carroll Gardens is mostly yuppy now, but I heard there's an Italian atmosphere in the area. East Harlem? That area hasn't had any Italians for over the past 20-30 years. Even the Puerto Ricans are leaving that area now.
They all go to the Jersey Shore eventually...sigh.
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