NYC Mayor's office maps ethnic enclaves—leaves out Little Italy, Greeks, Jews

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism after a city-produced map of the Big Apple’s immigrant communities excluded several historic ethnic groups, including Little Italy, Irish enclaves, and Jewish communities.

The map, titled “New York City Immigrant Enclaves,” highlights 30 neighborhoods across the city’s five boroughs, including areas such as Koreatown in Manhattan, Little Pakistan in Brooklyn, Little Yemen in The Bronx, Little Guyana in Queens, and Little Mexico in Staten Island, per The New York Post.

Critics, however, questioned why the map did not include some of the city’s oldest immigrant communities, particularly Little Italy in Manhattan, a neighborhood that became a major destination for Italian immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt criticized the decision to exclude certain immigrant groups on X. “Leaving out the Italian, Jewish, and Irish enclaves in NYC is like leaving out Mexican and Persian enclaves in LA,” he wrote. “It’s not an ‘oopsie!’ This is deliberate subversion. The communist must erase your history so he can demolish your home and make it his own.”

Editor-in-Chief of The Post Millennial Libby Emmons also weighed in on the map. “What happened to Little Italy?” she asked in reference to the immigrant map. “The Greek and Jewish neighborhoods?” she continued. “And no one of any ethnicity at all lives on the Upper East Side?”

“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 altogether on the map. Italian Americans BUILT NEW YORK CITY. Not third world Ugandans. We stand AGAINST COMMUNISTS!”

The league also shared a statement from Mike Crispi, president of the Italian American Civil Rights League, who condemned Mamdani for “erasing Little Italy from NYC immigrant map.”

“Mamdani’s City Hall can find room for every fashionable progressive constituency, but somehow it cannot find Little Italy,” Crispi said. “Our culture is good enough for their photo ops, our food is good enough for their fundraisers, and our neighborhoods are good enough for tourism dollars — but when it comes time to recognize Italian Americans, they erase us.”

A City Hall spokesperson told the New York Post that the map was designed to “highlight neighborhoods in New York City that have substantial foreign-born populations from regions and countries around the world.” The spokesperson added that additional groups would be added later.