{"id":291831,"date":"2026-07-09T21:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291831\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:54:16","slug":"mamdanis-map-of-nyc-immigrant-neighborhoods-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291831\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s map of NYC immigrant neighborhoods sparks outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuhgeddaboudit!<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani caught some Italian heat Wednesday after releasing a map of the Big Apple\u2019s ethnic enclaves that includes places like Little Palestine \u2014 but ignores historic Little Italy and other notable Irish and Jewish immigrant nabes.<\/p>\n

The map, titled \u201cNew York City Immigrant Enclaves<\/a>,\u201d highlights 30 areas across the five boroughs, ranging from Koreatown in Manhattan to Little Pakistan in Brooklyn and Little Yemen in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

But critics were quick to roast the socialist mayor for overlooking the city\u2019s very own \u201coriginal Little\u201d \u2014\u00a0a nationally recognized historic district that brought you everything from meatballs to the mafia.<\/p>\n

\"NYC'sThe Mayor\u2019s map of New York City\u2019s immigrant neighborhoods. New York City Tourism + Conventions<\/p>\n

\u201cNo italians. \u2026 Give me a break,\u201d one observer fumed on X <\/a>Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) said snubbing Little Italy,<\/a> which was established in the late 19th century, was a major flub.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were able to get a Little Bhod-Tibet in there, but what about the original \u2018Little neighborhood,\u2019 Little Italy?\u201d Ariola told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd 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\u2019s office?\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph Scelsa, founder of the Italian-American Museum on Mulberry Street, called the exclusion of Italian-American enclaves a \u201cterrible mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cTo respect one is to respect all,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cItalian-Americans are still a major population in New York City. To not recognize where Italian-Americans came from and settled is a terrible mistake. I don\u2019t understand why Little Italy isn\u2019t included. I hope it\u2019s an oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The map, which appears to have been released in May, also includes Little Guyana in Queens, Little Mexico in Staten Island and Little Dominican Republic in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Kevin McCabe,\u00a0a former City Council chief of staff, said the map shamefully leaves out generations of folks hailing from The Emerald Isle.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI guess they never heard of Woodlawn or Sunnyside but that\u2019s OK, the Irish are everywhere, the way it\u2019s supposed to be,\u201d McCabe, an original Working Families Party operative, told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe British Empire at the height of its powers couldn\u2019t cancel the Irish, I\u2019m not too worried about a couple of ill-informed bureaucrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others\u00a0slammed Mamdani for ignoring neighborhoods such as Brooklyn\u2019s Borough Park, which is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside of Israel.<\/p>\n

\"mamdani\"Mamdani came under fire for leaving out Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mayor\u2019s Office made a map of NYC\u2019s immigrant enclaves: Little Africa, Little Poland, Little Palestine. But they just couldn\u2019t figure out how to represent 11% of the city. Couldn\u2019t decipher where the Jews are from,\u201d writer\u00a0Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt<\/a> fumed on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuge riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Assemblyman Kalman Yeger, who represents heavily Orthodox Jewish southern Brooklyn, said it\u2019s not the first time Hizzoner has tried to \u201cerase\u201d the Jews.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Mamdani\u2019s erasing Jews is an essential part of his brand. No surprise,\u201d Yeger said. <\/p>\n

In a statement, a City Hall spokesperson said the map wasn\u2019t designed to highlight religious enclaves in the Big Apple, adding it instead \u201chighlights neighborhoods in New York City that have substantial foreign-born populations from regions and countries around the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does not highlight religious groups,\u201d the spokesperson told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle Odessa, which is featured in the map, has a substantial Jewish population.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The guide is designed for tourists to experience some of the vibrant cultures in New York City, but is not considered a full list of \u201call of the rich diversity across the city,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe immigrant enclave series began during the [Eric] Adams\u2019 administration, and we are planning to add more neighborhoods in the upcoming months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fuhgeddaboudit! Mayor Zohran Mamdani caught some Italian heat Wednesday after releasing a map of the Big Apple\u2019s ethnic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2301,17374,57,9,11,10,58,82],"class_list":["post-291831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-immigration","tag-little-italy","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}