
We have forever acknowledged, proudly, that this country is a nation of immigrants, coming from all parts of the world. And for our entire history, we have recognized the contributions each generation from each ethnicity has made to our unique development as a nation.
Until this week.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Socialist Mayor of New York City and an immigrant himself, willfully neglected to recognize a key group of immigrants who helped to make New York the Greatest City in the world in his “immigrant map” by omitting Little Italy and the enclave it represents.
But Italians were not the only ethnic group which was neglected. While the City Council’s Italian-American caucus fumed Thursday over Mamdani’s map which didn’t list Italian enclaves, and pointed out that big Irish and Jewish neighborhoods were also eliminated, his map spotlighted thirty other areas, including Little Palestine, Koreatown, Little Pakistan and Little Odessa.

“You cannot tell the story of immigrant New York while airbrushing out one of the city’s most recognizable and historically significant immigrant communities,” the caucus said in a statement Thursday, calling the omission “incomplete at best and insulting at worst.”
The caucus said the Mamdani administration should work with historians and community groups so the next version of the map gives Italian‑Americans and other groups a fair shake.
“Italian‑Americans are not a footnote in the history of New York,” the group added. “We are one of the city’s foundational immigrant communities, and our neighborhoods, churches, small businesses, feast traditions, civic institutions, and family networks helped build modern New York.”
The Italian Caucus pointed out Belmont in the Bronx, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights in Brooklyn and Italian‑American pockets in Queens and Staten Island are also neighborhoods where Italian roots run deep.
But this is typical of actions by the Socialist Mayor. He has frequently neglected history of his city, while glorifying the groups who pay homage to his agenda.
Hopefully, New Yorkers will remember this in November and elect a new Governor, who will remove this disaster from New York City under the State Constitution before he destroys it completely.
The current governor certainly does not have the guts or nerve to do it.







