Fra Noi Embrace Your Inner Italian
Yesterday I read about an Italian-American neighborhood that was the original Little Italy in New York City. No, not Mulberry Street in lower Manhattan but East Harlem above 96th Street. Today, both those areas are “Italian” by the skin of their teeth. Mulberry Street is enveloped by Chinatown. East Harlem is better called Spanish Harlem (nicknamed El Barrio) for the massive influx of Puerto Rican and Dominican residents after World War II. What I was reading was an article in Atlantica Magazine from July 1934. No food or fashion, Atlantica was probably the first intellectual periodical in our community. The …
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