Everything about Italian Harlem totally explained
Italian Harlem is a neighborhood in
East Harlem in the
New York City borough of
Manhattan, inhabited by an
Italian American population. Today Italian Harlem is called
Spanish Harlem because of its large
Latino population. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries a huge wave of immigrants came from
Southern Italy and
Sicily moved around
Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem. The borders were
96th Street on the South to
125th Street on the north, though after
116th Street the section wasn't as heavily Italian then the ones south of it. The Western border was
Fifth Avenue and the Eastern border was the
East River. Italian Harlem approached its peak in the 1930s, with over 100,000 Italian-Americans living in its tight, run-down apartment buildings. Each street had Italians from different regions of Italy, they were mostly divided amongst Sicilians, then a mixture of Southern Italians, followed by a decent amount of Northern Italians. However, in the late 1960s, a large section of Italian Harlem was leveled for
urban renewal and the building of Franklin Plaza, forcing many of the Italian residents to move to
the Bronx or
Brooklyn.
Today
Some Italian vestiges remain including a barber shop, a bakery, Patsy's Pizzeria and
Rao's. Most of the
Italian American population has left and moved to
the Bronx and
Brooklyn. Most of these predominantly older residents are clustered around Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, mainly from 114th to 118th Street. There are roughly a little over 1,000 Italian-Americans still living in this area. There were many crime syndicates in Italian Harlem from the
Black Hand,
Red Wings, to the
Purple Gang who in the 1970s controlled the drug trade of the area. Italian American actor
Al Pacino was born in Italian Harlem.
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