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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> rankled some feathers Wednesday when a map created by the city’s Mayor’s Office of Immigrant’s Affairs<\/a> (MOIA) ahead of the World Cup was shared widely online \u2014 and plenty of people noticed Little Italy, among other historic neighborhoods, was missing. MOIA has also created individual maps<\/a> for many of the city’s immigrant neighborhoods.<\/p>\n When asked about the map, a spokesperson for MOIA told the <\/a>New York Post<\/a>\u00a0the map “highlights neighborhoods in New York City that have substantial foreign-born populations from regions and countries around the world.”<\/p>\n The spokesperson also said, “It does not highlight religious groups. Little Odessa, which is featured in the map, has a substantial Jewish population. The immigrant enclave series began during the [Eric] Adams’ administration, and we are planning to add more neighborhoods in the upcoming months.”<\/p>\n The map, titled New York City Immigrant Enclaves, was shared by writer Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt<\/a> on X<\/a>. She wrote, “The Mayor’s Office made a map of NYC’s immigrant enclaves: Little Africa, Little Poland, Little Palestine. But they just couldn’t figure out how to represent 11% of the city. Couldn’t decipher where the Jews are from. Asked everyone. Huge riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”<\/p>\n The map also prompted outcry from the Italian American Civil Rights League.<\/p>\n “Zohran Mamdani wants to ERASE Italian Americans. First, he denied our permit for Unity Day 2026. Now, he is excluding Little Italy as a recognized location all together on the map,” the organization wrote on X. “Italian Americans BUILT NEW YORK CITY. Not third world Ugandans, We stand AGAINST COMMUNISTS!”<\/p>\n There are also plenty of conservative pundits and leaders offering their own takes:<\/p>\n But MOIA had a few defenders. Maple Opinion editor David Mastracci wrote on X that Little Italy is “no longer an enclave for Italian immigrants, and hasn’t been one for a very long time. The 2000 census found that just 44 people born in Italy lived in the neighbourhood. The 2010 census found that literally 0 people born in Italy lived there, and just 5 per cent of residents were Italian Americans.”<\/p>\n “Italian immigration to the U.S. is a drop in the bucket compared to what it used to be; the few Italian immigrants coming now generally no longer need ethnic enclaves; the neighbourhood itself has become incredibly expensive, the polar opposite of what it was when the bulk of Italians came; the Italian Americans that did used to live there mostly left for the suburbs (which is the case with most ethnic enclaves eventually),” he added.<\/p>\n Roger Stone weighed in as well.<\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n The post New ‘Immigrant Enclaves’ Map Released by NYC Mayor Mamdani Sparks Outrage for ‘Erasing’ Little Italy<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rankled some feathers Wednesday when a map created by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[111872,111869,873,4858,111868,108586,111870,13158,111871,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":["post-293058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-enclave","tag-immigrant-neighborhoods","tag-italian-american","tag-italy","tag-little-africa","tag-little-poland","tag-mayors-office-of-immigrants-affairs","tag-mayors-office","tag-moia","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293058","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=293058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}