Italian American Neighborhoods – Boston
Hanover Street – the heart of Boston’s Little Italy. Some of the many original Italian ports of origin. Boston, Massachusetts Boston’s Italian neighborhood is called the North End. It has a strong...
View ArticleNew England’s “Little Italies”
Little Italy isn’t just one neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, it’s a group of neighborhoods all across America. These neighborhoods have been incorporated into the fabric of the towns they reside in...
View ArticleLittle Italy – Manhattan
Mulberry Street, along which New York City’s Little Italy is centered. Lower East Side, circa 1900. In 1892 Ellis Island, located at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was established as...
View ArticleWestern Pennsylvania’s “Little Italies”
The Port of Erie, PA Many of the Italians who came to Erie worked for the railroad. Little Italy’s boundaries at that time were along the New York Central and the Nickel Plate tracks. Others worked...
View ArticleBaltimore’s Little Italy
Ellis Island in New York harbor is well known as the main entry point for European immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What many do not know is that Baltimore was the...
View ArticleDelaware’s Little Italy
During the peak years of immigration to the United States from southern Italy, many of the Italian immigrants came to Delaware seeking a better life. They came to work as laborers on the railroad and...
View ArticleYbor City – Florida’s Little Italy
Tribute to Immigrants of Ybor City – Centennial Park The Italians in Florida “The people who had lived for centuries in Sicilian villages perched on hilltops for protection from marauding bands and...
View ArticleCleveland’s Little Italy
Cleveland, Ohio By the mid-1800s, a small group of Italian immigrants had arrived in Cleveland and were working in various occupations, as bookkeeper, boot maker, gardener, carpenter, steel worker and...
View ArticleRecipes from America’s Italian Communities – Part 1
As immigrants from the different regions of Italy settled throughout the various regions of the United States, many brought with them a distinct regional Italian culinary tradition. Many of these...
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