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Italian-Americans in the United States can be found in large numbers and densities in states such as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Michigan, Florida, California, Illinois, and Massachusetts. An estimate of 20 million Americans are of Italian or Sicilian descent. New York City has by far the most Italian-Americans in one area though and is still a common destination for Italians coming over to start a new life in America.
Communities of Italian Americans were established in most major industrial cities of the early 20th century, such as Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts (the "North End"); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; and Kansas City, Missouri. New Orleans, Louisiana was the first site of immigration of Italians and Sicilians into America in the 19th century, before Italy was a unified nation-state. This was before New York Harbor and Baltimore became the preferred destinations for Italian immigrants.
In sharp contrast to the Northeast, most of the Southern states (exceptions being the Atlantic coast of Florida, New Orleans, and a fast-growing community in Atlanta) have very few Italian-American residents. During the labor shortage in the 19th-early 20th centuries, planters in the Deep South did attract some Italian immigrants to work as sharecroppers, but they soon left the extreme anti-Italian discrimination and strict regimen of the plantations for towns or other states. Because of concerns about peonage and anti-Italian lynching, the Italian embassy warned Italian emigrants away from the American South.
In Kansas City, Missouri, the areas known as "North of the River" (and the former areas of "The North End" and "Northeast Kansas City") have flourished with Italian American families, mostly of Sicilian heritage, from 1st to 3rd generation.
New Italian immigrants have been entering California, specifically Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach, and Fresno, but the state has had Italian-American residents since the 1850s.
Since the 1950s, like many Americans, Italian Americans have moved to the cheaper, slower-paced and rapidly growing Western states, including Arizona, Colorado, Nevada (especially Las Vegas), Oregon, Texas (mostly in the Houston and Dallas areas) and Washington (especially Seattle).
Most Italian-American organizations and demographic experts say that they leave to escape the high real estate prices, cold weather and traffic, among other reasons, in the congested Northeast and East Coast in general.
States with the largest Italian-American communities are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
Alabama
- Daphne - Prior to the 1978 annexation of the Lake Forest subdivision, Daphne was a heavily Italian community, and pre-1978 Daphne territory remains Italian, with street names such as Guarisco. The Archdiocese of Mobile considers Christ the King Parish in Daphne as an Italian-American parish.
Arkansas
- Little Italy in unincorporated northern Pulaski County
California
Southern California
- Los Angeles, such as the neighborhood of San Pedro
- Palm Springs and nearby Palm Desert
- San Diego - Little Italy
Northern California
- North Beach, San Francisco - baseball legend Joe DiMaggio grew up here.
- Spaghetti Hill, Monterey - birthplace of current CIA director Leon Panetta
Colorado
- Denver — "Little Italy" in the Cherry Creek section
Connecticut
- Bridgeport
- Danbury
- East Haven
- Hartford
- Middletown
- New Haven - home of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, Sally's Apizza, and a vast number of other purveyors of Apizza. The city was 60% Italian descent in the 1960 census.
- Prospect
- Stamford
- Waterbury
- West Haven
District of Columbia
- Washington, D.C. is home to 10,000 Italian Americans.[citation needed]
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
- Addison
- Chicago:
- Armour Square
- Little Italy
- Little Sicily (Grand Ave)
- South Side
- Chicago Heights
- Elmwood Park
- Franklin Park
- Melrose Park
- Park Ridge
- Riverton
Louisiana
- Independence - 29.5% Italian
- Kenner
- Marrero
- New Orleans
Massachusetts
- Boston:
- East Boston
- North End (Little Italy of Boston)
- Brockton - birthplace of boxing champ Rocky Marciano
- East Cambridge
- Everett
- Gloucester
- Lawrence
- Lynn
- Medford
- Milford
- Quincy Point in Quincy
- Revere
- Saugus
- Springfield (South-End)
- Taunton
- Waltham
Maryland
- Baltimore:
- Bel Air
- College Park
- Edgewood
- Elkridge
- Essex
- Joppatowne
- Laurel
- Middle River
- Parkville
- Perry Hall
- Towson
Michigan
Minnesota
- Minneapolis - St. Paul area
- Northern Minnesota Iron Mines region: Hibbing, Duluth, Aurora
Missouri
- Kansas City - The northeast side is a "Little Italy" neighborhood
- The Hill, Saint Louis - Three famous baseball figures—Yogi Berra, Harry Caray and Joe Garagiola—grew up here.
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New Jersey municipalities with over 25% of the population identifying themselves as of Italian ancestry (in those municipalities where at least 1,000 residents identified their ancestry):[1]
- Hammonton 45.9 (second highest percentage for a town in the United States)
- Dover Beaches South 42.8
- Totowa 37.7
- South Hackensack 36.3
- Nutley 36.0
- Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson) 34.3
- Moonachie 34.1
- Lyndhurst 33.8
- Buena 33.5
- Lodi 33.3
- Ocean Gate 32.5
- Carlstadt 31.2
- Hasbrouck Heights 30.8
- West Long Branch 30.5
- Netcong 30.1
- Gibbstown 30.1
- Raritan 30.1
- Newfield 29.8
- Saddle Brook 29.8
- Cedar Grove 29.7
- Greenwich Township 29.3
- Glendora 28.7
- Belleville 28.7
- Little Falls 28.6
- Kenilworth 28.0
- Oceanport 27.7
- Lavallette 27.7
- North Arlington 27.4
- Longport 27.3
- Folsom 27.3
- Hawthorne 26.5
- Bloomfield 26.4
- Rochelle Park 26.1
- Washington Township 25.9
- Mystic Island 25.9
- Seaside Heights 25.7
- Blackwood 25.5
- Belford 25.3
- Riverdale 25.1
- East Rutherford 25.1
- Other places in New Jersey
- Asbury Park
- Atlantic City
- Bayonne (20.1% Italian)
- Camden
- Clifton
- Elizabeth
- Garfield
- Hackensack
- Hoboken - Three popular celebrities—Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Roselli and Joe Pantoliano—grew up here.
- Jersey City
- Kearny
- Neptune City
- Newark
- Ironbound, in the Italian Down Neck section
- Seventh Avenue
- Orange
- Paterson (25.5% Italian)
- Rockaway
- Rutherford
- Secaucus
- Trenton
- Ventnor City (22.8% Italian)
- Vineland (22.8% Italian)
- West New York
New York
The state of New York has the largest population of Italian Americans, at 3.1 million people. The majority of Italian Americans in New York City originated from southern parts of the country. In the peak of Italian immigration (1910s), New York City and Chicago according to the 1920 census each had 28 neighborhoods and census tracts in which over 50% of the population was of Italian descent.
New York City
- The Bronx
- Arthur Avenue, Bronx (Little Italy of the Bronx)
- Belmont, Bronx - home of 1950s doo-wop group Dion DiMucci and the Belmonts
- East Bronx
- Morris Park, Bronx
- Sections of Pelham Bay, Bronx
- Sections of South Bronx
- Sections of Throggs Neck, Bronx
- Brooklyn
- Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, second-highest percentage of people claiming Italian ancestry in the county after Bensonhurst. Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge neighbor each other in South Brooklyn, and the area is well known to Italian Americans across the country.
- Bensonhurst, Brooklyn (Little Italy of Brooklyn), highest percentage of people claiming Italian ancestry in Brooklyn
- South Brooklyn
- Sections of Bath Beach
- Sections of Canarsie
- Sections of Carroll Gardens
- Sections of Cobble Hill
- Sections of Dyker Heights
- Sections of East New York
- Sections of Flatbush
- Sections of Gravesend
- Sections of Greenwood Heights
- Sections of Kensington
- Sections of Midwood
- Sections of Red Hook
- Sections of Windsor Terrace
- Manhattan
- East Harlem - birthplace of actor Al Pacino. The highest concentration of Italians in East Harlem can be found in Italian Harlem between Pleasant Avenue to the east, First Avenue to the west, East 114th Street to the south and East 120th Street to the north.
- Mulberry Street (Little Italy)
- Queens
- Astoria
- Floral Park
- Howard Beach, one of the highest percentages of Italian Americans in Queens County, with about 15,000 of its 28,000 residents claiming Italian ancestry
- Ozone Park (Little Italy of Queens)
- Sections of Belle Harbor
- Sections of Glendale
- Sections of Little Neck
- Sections of Middle Village
- Sections of Ridgewood
- Sections of Rosedale
- Staten Island: The borough has the highest proportion of Italian Americans of any county in the United States. Around 200,000 residents claim Italian heritage.
Long Island
- Bridgehampton
- Cedarhurst
- East Meadow
- Franklin Square
- Glen Cove
- Greenport
- Hewlett
- Huntington
- Levittown
- Lindenhurst
- Long Beach
- Lynbrook
- Massapequa
- Massapequa Park
- Mastic Beach
- Mineola
- North Babylon
- North Massapequa
- Oceanside
- Port Jefferson
- Selden
- Smithtown
- West Babylon
- West Islip
- Westbury
Westchester County
Rockland County
Upstate New York
- Albany - the South End neighborhood
- Buffalo - the city's north side, however they are scattered all across Buffalo
- Canandaigua
- Carmel
- Frankfort
- Geneva
- Mahopac
- Monroe
- Niagara Falls
- Rochester - East Rochester
- Rome - 30.2% Italian-American
- Schenectady
- Syracuse
- Troy - Hillary Clinton has proposed a "Little Italy" section in the city.
- Utica - 28% Italian-American, concentrated in East Utica
Ohio
- Cleveland:
- Columbus:
- Italian Village
- Highland Heights (31.3% Italian)
- Lowellville (48.0% Italian)
- Lyndhurst (23.9% Italian)
- Mayfield Heights (26.1% Italian)
- Mayfield Village (25.1% Italian)
- Niles
- Steubenville - birthplace of singer/actor Dean Martin
- Struthers (28.3% Italian)
- Youngstown:
Oregon
- Portland has a "Little Italy" neighborhood.
Pennsylvania
- Aliquippa
- Ambler
- Ambridge
- Bangor
- Braddock
- Bridgeville
- Brockway
- Canonsburg - birthplace of singer Perry Como
- Clairton
- Clifton Heights
- Coatesville
- Collingdale
- Coraopolis
- Darby
- Downingtown
- Drexel Hill
- Dunmore
- Easton
- Ellwood City
- Farrell
- Harmony Township
- Homewood
- Hopewell Township
- Jessup
- Kennedy Township
- Koppel
- Midland
- New Castle (Mahoningtown)
- New Galilee
- Norristown
- Penn Hills Township
- Philadelphia - home to the second-largest Italian-American population in the United States, according to the 2000 census
- South Philadelphia - largely Italian
- Sections of Northeast Philadelphia
- Tacony
- Areas of Kensington
- Areas of West Kensington
- Sections of Southwest Philadelphia
- Pittsburgh
- Pittston
- Ridley Township
- Roseto - 49.4% of the population
- Scranton
- Upland
- Upper Darby Township
- Rankin
- Sharpsburg
- Stowe Township
- Washington
Rhode Island
19% of Rhode Island residents are Italian American, the greatest percentage of any state. 199,180 of Rhode Island's population of 1,048,319 claim Italian ancestry.
- Bristol (21.2%)
- Cranston (34.5% Italian American)
- Johnston (53.6% Italian American - the highest percentage of any community in the United States
- North Providence (43% Italian American)
- Providence:
- Federal Hill (Little Italy of Providence)
- Warwick (22.8%)
- Westerly (34.2% Italian American)
Texas
Utah
- Utah Italians - an article about Italian Americans in Utah
Washington
West Virginia
Approximately 11% of the combined population of "Mountaineer Country", collectively the north central West Virginia cities of Clarksburg, Fairmont and Morgantown claim Italian ancestry, mostly from Italian immigrants recruited to work in mining and glass manufacturing. [1]
References
- ^ Italian Communities, accessed November 11, 2006