New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani published a map of migrants across the city, although a major group that helped build the city was seemingly forgotten.
The map, titled “New York City Immigrant Enclaves,” details 30 areas in the five boroughs with migrant populations, such as Chinatown in Flushing, Little Africa in the Bronx, Little Ecuador, Little India, and many others.
Italians were left out of the map.
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… pic.twitter.com/hdnzhtTt9T
— Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt (@avitalrachel) July 8, 2026
The Italian American Civil Rights League condemned the map, with the group’s president, Mike Crispi, stating that the error is a “cultural erasure.” He called Little Italy “sacred ground” where “Italian immigrants came with nothing,” worked, ran shops, built churches, and “helped make New York what it is.”
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“Mamdani’s City Hall can find room for every fashionable progressive constituency, but somehow it cannot find Little Italy,” Crispi explained. “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.”
“Little Italy is not dead,” he added. “Little Italy is not optional. Little Italy is New York.”
Zohran Mamdani wants to ERASE Italian Americans.
— The Italian American Civil Rights League (@TheIACRL) July 9, 2026
First, he denied our permit for Unity Day 2026.
Now, he is excluding Little Italy as a recognized location all together on the map.
Italian Americans BUILT NEW YORK CITY. Not third world Ugandans,
We stand AGAINST COMMUNISTS! pic.twitter.com/BYgVuie6jX
Spencer Pratt, who ran for mayor of Los Angeles, also condemned the map. “Leaving out the Italian, Jewish, and Irish enclaves in NYC is like leaving out Mexican and Persian enclaves in LA,” he wrote on X. “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.”
This article originally appeared on American Faith and is reposted with permission.
