{"id":292891,"date":"2026-07-11T00:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292891\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:27:19","slug":"cms-mamdani-respond-to-city-immigrant-enclaves-map-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292891\/","title":{"rendered":"CMs, Mamdani Respond to City Immigrant Enclaves Map Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A map posted<\/a> on NYC\u2019s tourism website, which promotes prominent immigrant enclaves across the five boroughs, was the center of recent controversy for not including some particular neighborhoods, such as Little Italy.<\/p>\n

The NYC Immigrant Enclaves Map, featured as part of the city\u2019s neighborhood passport<\/a> program, lists 30 different enclaves throughout the city, including five in Manhattan. While the map highlights some of the city\u2019s immigrant hotspots, New Yorkers \u2014 including City Council Members\u2014took to social media to decry the exclusion of Little Italy, an enclave located near Chinatown in downtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New York City Council Italian Caucus is deeply disappointed by the omission of Little Italy and other historic Italian-American neighborhoods from the City\u2019s \u2018Immigrant Enclaves\u2019 map,\u201d council members wrote<\/a> in a statement on X. \u201cItalian-Americans are not a footnote in New York City\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge the City to correct this omission and ensure our shared history is represented fully, fairly, and honestly,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n

The City Council\u2019s Italian Caucus<\/a> is made up of four Republican council members: Staten Island CM Frank Morano, Queens CM Joann Ariola, Staten Island CM David Carr, and Queens CM Vickie Paladino.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were here before Zohran,\u201d the Italian American Civil Rights League wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cWe will be here long after Zohran. Little Italy will NOT be erased.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson at NYC Tourism reported that the map was created using data from the Mayor\u2019s Office of Immigrant Affairs in 2023, under the Adams administration. In Manhattan, the enclaves listed on the map include Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Dominican Republic, Little Senegal, and Little Ukraine.<\/p>\n

To add fuel to the fire, social media users criticized the inclusion of other enclaves over Little Italy. But while some decried the exclusion, others online noted<\/a> the decline in Italian immigrants actually living in the downtown area over the years. A growing Chinatown in Manhattan has devoured many of the streets that once comprised Little Italy, now confined largely to a few blocks of Italian restaurants and stores around Mulberry Street.<\/p>\n

Some New Yorkers, as well as Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, also pointed<\/a> out other enclaves they would have liked to see listed, such as the Irish-American neighborhood Woodlawn in Queens. Virginia Maloney, the UES City Council member and head of the council\u2019s Irish Caucus, had not returned a call by press time.<\/p>\n

In response to the backlash Mamdani, in a press conference July 10, said his administration added a few additional enclaves after inheriting the map from Adams.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clearly not an exhaustive list of the more than 200 ethnic communities that call our city home and we\u2019re going to be making additional changes in the future to reflect that,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cThat includes adding Little Italy to the map.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A map posted on NYC\u2019s tourism website, which promotes prominent immigrant enclaves across the five boroughs, was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6724,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-292891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-map","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292891","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=292891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}