List of Italian-American neighborhoods

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There are large concentrations of Italians and Italian Americans in many metropolitan areas of the United States, especially in the industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest. Today, the state of New York has the largest population of Italian-Americans in the United States, while Rhode Island and Connecticut have the highest overall percentages in relation to their respective populations.

In sharp contrast, most of the rest of the country (exceptions being South Florida and New Orleans) have very few Italian-American residents. During the labor shortage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, planters in the Deep South did attract some Italian immigrants to work as sharecroppers, but they soon left due to extreme anti-Italian discrimination and strict regimen of the plantations.

According to a recent United Census Bureau estimate, 17.8 million Americans are of Italian descent.[1] Communities of Italian Americans were established in many major industrial cities of the early 20th century, such as Baltimore (particularly Little Italy, Baltimore), Boston (particularly in the North End) and East Boston) along with numerous nearby cities and towns, Philadelphia proper (particularly South Philadelphia) and the Philadelphia metro area (particularly neighborhoods in Delco, Atlantic City, Little Italy, Wilmington; and Vineland), Pittsburgh (particularly Bloomfield), Northeastern Pennsylvania cities, Lehigh Valley cities, Detroit, Providence (particularly Federal Hill), St. Louis (particularly The Hill), Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Youngstown, Erie, Cleveland, Buffalo, Newark, and New York City, which boasts the largest Italian-American population, which live in several concentrated communities in the New York metropolitan area, including the five boroughs, Long Island, and Westchester. New Orleans, Louisiana was the first site of immigration of Italians into America in the 19th century, before Italy was a unified nation-state. This was before New York Harbor and Baltimore became the preferred destinations for Italian immigrants.

Alabama[]

  • Daphne – Prior to the 1978 annexation of the Lake Forest subdivision, Daphne was a heavily Italian community, and pre-1978 Daphne territory remains Italian, with street names such as Guarisco. The Archdiocese of Mobile considers Christ the King Parish in Daphne an Italian-American parish.

Arkansas[]

  • Lake Village, a farming community in southeastern Arkansas, enticed a number of families from northern Italy to become sharecroppers in the 1890s. Following a harsh and deadly winter, about half the families left and established Tontitown, west of Fayetteville, Arkansas[2] in Benton/Washington counties.
  • Little Italy in unincorporated northern Pulaski County near Little Rock.

California[]

Northern California[]

  • Cotati – Italian community in the area's grape-growing industry.[3]
  • Excelsior District, San Francisco – Italian-American Social Club is on Russia St., and Calabria Brothers Deli is around the corner on Mission Street.[4]
  • Fresno and some Italian descendants in portions of the San Joaquin Valley (i.e. Kern County with its grape industry).[citation needed]
  • Gilroy – one of CA's wine countries.[citation needed]
  • "Italian Colony", Oakland.[5]
  • Marin County (Albert Park, San Rafael).[6]
  • Napa – Little Italy is the East Napa historic neighborhoods of First-Juarez-Third Streets and Alta Heights. The Napa Valley wine industry owes its heritage to Italian vintners.[7]
  • North Beach, San Francisco – baseball legend Joe DiMaggio grew up here. The Italian Heritage Parade (formerly the Columbus Day Parade) is the oldest in the U.S. and one of the largest. North Beach is also the home of City Lights Books, which helped to give birth to the Beats literary movement.[8]
  • Sacramento metro area – descendants of the 1849 California Gold Rush.[9]
  • San Jose – The majority of contributions were of Southern Italian heritage. San Jose's old Italian neighborhoods are Goose Town and North San Jose.[10]
  • Santa Cruz County – CA coastal county.[citation needed]
  • Sonoma County –the Italian Swiss Colony coop founded in the 1880s by Andrea Sbarbaro from Switzerland.
  • Spaghetti Hill, Monterey – birthplace of former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. The Salinas Valley also has many Italian descendants.[11]
  • South San Francisco – sizable Italian community.[12]
  • Stockton – descendants of the 1849 California Gold Rush.[13]
  • Temescal, Oakland was thriving with Italian immigrants since the 1960s.[14]

Southern California[]

  • Altadena/ Pasadena – once had a Little Italy. Nearby Arcadia and Monrovia is where the area's Italian community moved to.[15]
  • Beaumont – grape industry.
  • Camarillo – wine and grape industry.
  • Desert Ridge/Sun City Shadow Hills, Indio.
  • Fontana – wine and grape industry.
  • Highland.
  • Los Angeles
    • Downtown Los Angeles (Fashion District), Italian community currently located around S Los Angeles Blvd.
    • Formerly Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles (East Los Angeles (region)) which had a Little Italy, before they relocated to nearby Alhambra and Montebello.[16] Casa Italiana, further n on N Broadway, near Solono Canyon is a historical hall of Italian heritage.
    • Further information: Chinatown, Los Angeles
    • Italian American Museum of Los Angeles[17][18][19]
    • Via Italia, San Pedro[20]
  • Long Beach has a community, among others in LA metro area.[21]
  • Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley[22] – Order of Sons of Italy America has a group there. 15-25% are of Italian descent.
  • Palm Springs which has a "Little Tuscany" section, aka Las Palmas and Movie Colony.[23]
  • Redondo Beach/ Torrance.[citation needed]
  • San Diego – Little Italy[24] also in Point Loma.[25]
  • Ventura/Oxnard.

Colorado[]

  • Denver – "Little Italy" has its roots in the Highlands neighborhood of North Denver. Italian miners, railroad workers and farmers developed Colorado in the late 19th century, and northern Italians are well represented. Many restaurants and Italian-run businesses remain in the neighborhood.[citation needed] And South Denver along with Cherry Creek has a number of Italian-Americans.
  • Pueblo – Hundreds of Sicilians, particularly, settled in Pueblo at the turn of the 20th century. They have influenced the culture of the city powerfully.
  • Trinidad – retirement community in the Sunbelt region of the US typically have many elderly Italian-Americans from the east coast.

Connecticut[]

19.3% of Connecticut's population claims Italian ancestry, making it the second most Italian state in the U.S. after Rhode Island.

  • Beacon Falls
  • Berlin
  • Bridgeport
    • Central End neighborhood along Madison Avenue
  • Bristol
  • Chesire
  • Cos Cob
  • Danbury
  • Derby
  • East Haven (43% of residents claim Italian ancestry)
  • Fair Haven
  • Guilford
  • Hamden
  • Hartford
    • Franklin Avenue, known as Little Italy of Hartford
  • Madison
  • Meriden
  • Middlebury
  • Middletown
    • Large Sicilian population
  • Milford
  • Naugatuck
  • New Haven
    • Wooster Square (Little Italy of New Haven) – home of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, Sally's Apizza, and a vast number of other purveyors of Apizza
  • North Branford
  • North Haven
  • Norwalk
  • Orange
  • Oxford
  • Prospect
  • Seymour
  • Southbury
  • Southington
  • Stamford
  • Torrington
  • Waterbury
  • West Haven

Delaware[]

  • Little Italy, Wilmington
  • Shawtown, New Castle

Florida[]

  • Fort Lauderdale – Little Italy Neighborhood Oakland & A1A near Galt Ocean Mile.[26]
  • Miami[27]
  • Boca Raton
  • Naples
  • Pompano Beach
  • Port St. Lucie
  • Tampa / Ybor City

Illinois[]

Indiana[]

Louisiana[]

Maine[]

  • Portland

Maryland[]

Massachusetts[]

  • Boston:
  • Brockton – birthplace of boxing champ Rocky Marciano
  • East Cambridge
  • Everett
  • Framingham
  • Gloucester
  • Lawrence
  • Leominster
  • Lowell
  • Lynn
  • Medford
  • Melrose
  • Milford
  • Revere Beach - The Coney Island of New England in Revere
  • Saugus
  • South Quincy in Quincy
  • Springfield (South-End)
  • Taunton
  • Waltham
  • West Springfield, Massachusetts
  • Worcester – Shrewsbury Street

Michigan[]

Minnesota[]

  • Minneapolis – St. Paul area: West 7th Street and "Nord-east" Minneapolis is an Italian area.
  • Northern Minnesota Iron Mines region –

Mississippi[]

Missouri[]

  • The Hill, Saint Louis – Three famous baseball figures—Yogi Berra, Harry Caray and Joe Garagiola—grew up here. The district remains one of the largest Italian neighborhoods in the United States.
  • Kansas City – The northeast side is a "Little Italy" neighborhood called Columbus Park, known for its Italian culture.

Nebraska[]

  • Little Italy, Omaha

Nevada[]

  • Las Vegas

New Hampshire[]

  • Portsmouth

New Jersey[]

New Jersey municipalities with over 25% of the population identifying themselves as of Italian ancestry (in those municipalities where at least 1,000 residents identified their ancestry):[34]

  • Hammonton 45.9 (second highest percentage for a town in the United States)
  • Dover Beaches South 42.8
  • East Hanover, New Jersey 41.3
  • Totowa 37.7
  • Fairfield 50.3 (highest percentage for a town in the United States)
  • South Hackensack 36.3
  • Nutley 36.0
  • Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson) 34.3
  • Moonachie 34.1
  • Lyndhurst 33.8
  • Buena 33.5
  • Lodi 33.3
  • Rutherford 33.2
  • Ocean Gate 32.5
  • Carlstadt 31.2
  • Hasbrouck Heights 30.8
  • West Long Branch 30.5
  • Netcong 30.1
  • Gibbstown 30.1
  • Raritan 30.1
  • Newfield 29.8
  • Saddle Brook 29.8
  • Cedar Grove 29.7
  • Greenwich Township 29.3
  • Glendora 28.7
  • Belleville 28.7
  • Little Falls 28.6
  • Wayne 28.4
  • Kenilworth 28.0
  • Oceanport 27.7
  • Lavallette 27.7
  • North Arlington 27.4
  • Longport 27.3
  • Folsom 27.3
  • Hawthorne 26.5
  • Bloomfield 26.4
  • Rochelle Park 26.1
  • Washington Township 25.9
  • Mystic Island 25.9
  • Seaside Heights 25.7
  • Blackwood 25.5
  • Belford 25.3
  • Riverdale 25.1
  • East Rutherford 25.1
Other places in New Jersey
  • Asbury Park
  • Atlantic City
  • Bayonne (20.1% Italian American)
  • Camden
  • Clifton
  • Elizabeth
    • Peterstown neighborhood was densely populated with about 90% Italian-Americans. It became less populated with Italians towards the late 1970s.
  • Freehold Township (22.0% Italian-American)
  • Garfield
  • Hackensack
  • Hoboken – Four popular Italian-American celebrities—Frank Sinatra, Buddy Valastro, Jimmy Roselli and Joe Pantoliano—grew up here.
  • Howell Township (23.8% Italian-American)
  • Jersey City, particularly The Village
  • Kearny
  • Manalapan
  • Margate
  • Neptune City
  • Newark
    • Ironbound, in the Italian Down Neck section. However, it has become less populated by Italian Americans since the 1970s.
    • Seventh Avenue
  • Orange
  • Long Hill
  • Paramus
  • Paterson

Paterson used to have the largest Italian percentage of any NJ city.

  • Rockaway
  • Rutherford
  • Sea Isle City
    • Fish Alley
  • Secaucus
  • Toms River (22.6% Italian American)
  • Trenton
  • Ventnor City (22.8% Italian American)
  • Verona
  • Vineland (22.8% Italian American)
  • West New York
  • Wildwood and The Wildwoods

New York[]

The state of New York has the largest population of Italian Americans, at 3.1 million people. The majority of Italian Americans in New York City originated from southern parts of Italy.

New York City[]

See Also Italians in New York City.

Arthur Avenue in the Bronx
  • The Bronx
    • Arthur Avenue (Little Italy of the Bronx)
    • Belmont
    • Bronx "Ghetto" (Little Sicily)
    • East Bronx
    • Morris Park
    • Pelham Bay
    • Throggs Neck
    • Country Club
  • Brooklyn
    • Bath Beach
    • Bay Ridge
    • Bensonhurst (Little Italy of Brooklyn)
    • Carroll Gardens
    • Cobble Hill
    • Dyker Heights
    • Sections of Williamsburg
    • Sections of Canarsie
    • Sections of Gravesend
    • Sections of Marine Park
    • Sections of Sheepshead Bay
    • Sections of Red Hook and Gowanus
    • Sections of Coney Island
    • South Brooklyn (obsolete term, now called Little Sicily)
    • Historically, significant populations in parts of Greenpoint, East New York, Ocean Hill, Brownsville, Bushwick, Flatbush, and East Flatbush[35][36]
  • Manhattan
    • Italian Harlem
    • Little Italy – now engulfed by expanded Chinatown.[37]
      • Mulberry Street
    • Historically, there have been significant populations in much of the Lower East Side, sections of Greenwich Village (especially south of Washington Square Park), and sections of Hell's Kitchen.
  • Queens
    • Astoria
    • Corona Heights
    • Forest Hills
    • Howard Beach
    • Ozone Park
    • Middle Village
    • Whitestone
    • Ridgewood
  • Staten Island – The borough has the highest proportion of Italian Americans of any county in the United States. About 200,000 residents claim Italian heritage (55%).

Long Island[]

Large Italian-American population.[38]

Mineola,ny

Westchester[]

  • Eastchester
  • Tuckahoe
  • Harrison
    • Downtown Harrison
    • West Harrison (also known as East White Plains)
  • Mount Pleasant
  • Mamaroneck
    • Harbor Heights
  • Mount Vernon
    • North Side
  • New Rochelle
    • Downtown New Rochelle
  • White Plains
  • Yonkers
    • Nepperhan
    • Bryn Mawr
    • Dunwoodie
  • Port Chester
    • Southwest near I-287
    • Northeast near Rye Brook
  • Yorktown

Yorktown in Westchester County has the annual feast of San Gennaro. [39]

Rockland[]

  • Congers
  • Sections of New City
  • Sections of Nyack

Upstate New York[]

  • Albany – the South End neighborhood
  • Amsterdam
  • Auburn
  • Binghamton
  • Buffalo – the city's north side; however, they are scattered all across Buffalo, including a once high concentration on the city's West Side
  • Canandaigua
  • Canastota
  • Carmel
  • Chili
  • Cicero
  • Cortland
  • Endicott – The north side of the village is Little Italy.
  • Frankfort
  • Fulton
  • Gates – Little Italy of Rochester
  • Geneva
  • Gloversville
  • Greece
  • Herkimer
  • Jamestown
  • Kenmore
  • Kingston
  • Lockport
  • Lyncourt
  • Mahopac
  • Middletown
  • Monroe
  • Newburgh
  • Niagara Falls
  • North Syracuse
  • Oswego
  • Poughkeepsie – primarily the Mount Carmel District
  • Rochester – West Side – Gates (the Little Italy of upstate New York)
  • Rome – 30.2% Italian-American
  • Rotterdam
  • Schenectady
  • Solvay
  • Syracuse
  • Troy – Hillary Clinton has proposed a "Little Italy" section in the city.
  • Utica – 28% Italian-American, concentrated in East Utica
  • Watertown

North Carolina[]

  • Valdese, Burke County
  • Charlotte
  • Raleigh

Ohio[]

Oklahoma[]

  • McAlester[46] in historic Choctaw Nation.
  • Muskogee area, from immigration in the 1889 land boom.[citation needed]

Oregon[]

  • Portland once had a "Little Italy" neighborhood.

Pennsylvania[]

Rhode Island[]

19% of Rhode Island residents are Italian American, the greatest percentage of any state. 199,180 of Rhode Island's population of 1,048,319 claim Italian ancestry.

  • Barrington
  • Bristol (21.2%)
  • Cranston (34.5% Italian American)
  • Johnston
  • North Providence
  • Providence:
  • Warwick (22.8%)
  • West Warwick
  • Westerly (34.2% Italian American)

Texas[]

Utah[]

  • Utah Italians – an article about Italian Americans in Utah, including converts to Mormonism, Waldenses from Lombardy and Italo-Protestants. The state's largest concentration in Sugarhouse district, Salt Lake City facing nearby South Salt Lake.[49] 19th century Italian immigration in Ogden-Weber County.[citation needed]

Washington[]

  • Seattle
  • Tacoma

West Virginia[]

Approximately 11% of the combined population of "Mountaineer Country", collectively the north central West Virginia cities of Clarksburg, Fairmont and Morgantown, claim Italian ancestry, mostly from Italian immigrants recruited to work in mining and glass manufacturing.[50]

  • Clarksburg
  • Fairmont
  • Morgantown

Wisconsin[]

  • Greenbush neighborhood of Madison – historically heavily Italian, but older Italians are dying off and younger ones have moved to the suburbs
  • Historic Third Ward, Milwaukee
  • Cable and other small towns in northern Wisconsin
  • Racine
  • Kenosha has the largest Italian community in the state.

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