New Yorkers are criticizing socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration for touting a map celebrating the city’s “immigrant enclaves” that omits the Italian, Irish, and Jewish communities that have been such integral parts of the Big Apple’s history.
Mamdani’s deputies promoted a new campaign in May to celebrate the city’s ethnic neighborhoods with a map entitled “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” that features 30 communities, including a number of Muslim communities, such as Yemeni, Pakistani, Egyptian, African, and Palestinian neighborhoods. Also represented are Chinese, Korean, Albanian, Colombian, Dominican, Ecuadoran, Indian, Haitian, Polish, and other neighborhoods.
But critics are ripping the map for ignoring European neighborhoods that were the original “Littles” such as Little Italy, or the long-standing Irish and Jewish neighborhoods that helped build New York City throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Queens Republican Councilwoman Joann Ariola ripped City Hall for the exclusionary graphic and told the New York Post that it appears Mamdani doesn’t think Jews, Italians, and Irish count, the Post reported.
“They were able to get a Little Bhod-Tibet in there, but what about the original ‘Little neighborhood,’ Little Italy?” Councilwoman Ariola asked. “And what about areas like Woodlawn, in the Bronx, which are home to plenty of Irish immigrants? Do the Irish and Italians not count for the Mayor’s office?”
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