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.
