Mamdani Found Room for Little Palestine and Little Yemen — But Had No Space for Little Italy
The map says everything you need to know about who Zohran Mamdani actually represents.
New York City’s new socialist mayor just released an official “Immigrant Enclaves” map celebrating the city’s ethnic neighborhoods across all five boroughs. Little Palestine made the cut. Little Pakistan made the cut. Little Yemen made the cut. The neighborhood where Italian immigrants arrived with nothing, built churches with their bare hands, opened businesses, raised families, and helped construct the greatest city in the world?
Not on the map.
Little Italy — one of the most historically significant and universally recognized immigrant communities in American history — was completely scrubbed from an official City Hall document celebrating immigrant heritage. In New York City. The city that Italian immigrants literally helped build.
The Italian American Civil Rights League didn’t mince words, calling it exactly what it is: cultural erasure. IACRL President Mike Crispi put it plainly — Little Italy is sacred ground, built by people who came with nothing and worked like hell to make New York what it is. Mamdani’s City Hall can find room for every fashionable progressive constituency on the map, but somehow Italian Americans didn’t make the cut.
“This is cultural erasure,” said Mike Crispi, President of the Italian American Civil Rights League, in a statement. “Little Italy is sacred ground. It is where Italian immigrants came with nothing, worked like hell, opened shops, raised families, built churches, fed the city, and helped make New York what it is.”
“Mamdani’s City Hall can find room for every fashionable progressive constituency, but somehow it cannot find Little Italy,” Crispi added. “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.”
That is a devastating sentence. And it’s completely accurate.
This isn’t a clerical error. This is a pattern. Mamdani skipped the Israel Day Parade. He’s been openly hostile to law enforcement and immigration enforcement while celebrating communities that progressive activists have decided deserve official recognition. And in June 2020, he posted a photo of himself flipping off the Columbus statue in Astoria with the caption “Take it down.” The man’s feelings about Italian American heritage aren’t exactly a mystery.
City Hall’s defense was as weak as you’d expect: the map started under the Adams administration and more neighborhoods will be added later. A spokesperson assured the New York Post it wasn’t meant to be exhaustive. Fine. Then explain the selection criteria. Explain how Little Yemen made the cut but Little Italy didn’t. Explain what editorial process produces that result — and then try to argue with a straight face that it wasn’t deliberate.
You can’t. Because it was.
This is progressive identity politics applied to city government in its purest form: some immigrant communities get celebrated, some get erased, and the sorting mechanism is political utility rather than historical significance. Italian Americans built New York. They vote differently than the constituencies Mamdani was elected to serve. So off the map they go.
The IACRL is demanding an apology and an immediate correction. They should get both. But don’t hold your breath waiting for Mamdani to deliver either one.
BREAKING: 'Defection To The Enemy!'—Beloved Morning Anchor Quietly Jumps Ship To Rival 'Today' Show In Shocking Network Betrayal! 👇 - Daily
A BELOVED Good Morning America host has quietly joined the rival Today Show as a new correspondent.
This morning, an announcement was made about the return of the host who stepped away from Good Morning America back in 2024.
A beloved Good Morning America host has quietly joined rival Today Show Credit: ABC
Dr Jen Ashton was on Today Show fir the second time in two weeks after leaving their competitor GMA back in 2024Credit: NBC
As Today host Sheinelle Jones began a health segment Wednesday morning, she introduced Dr. Jen Ashton, a former GMA host, to help answer her fans’ health questions.
This is the second time the doctor has appeared on Today in the last two weeks.
Sheinelle said they were there to help viewers get answers from Dr. Jen about various medical questions.
“Dr.
Jen Ashton put out the call to her hundreds of 1000s of social media followers.
“She’s board-certified in OB/GYN and obesity medicine, and host of the popular Dear Dr. Jen Podcast.
“And this morning, she’s sharing her professional opinion on some of what she heard,” Sheinelle said in her introduction to Dr. Jen.
The first question they read was about getting an osteoporosis diagnosis.
Dr. Jen then dives into the importance of a T-Score.
Dr Jen looked like she was at home during her appearance on Today Show WednesdayCredit: NBC
The doctor answered a number of fan questions about popular health topicsCredit: NBC
“That’s the number you’re going to track over time.
“It’s just how we diagnose osteoporosis.
“It starts at a T score of negative 2.5, and so that’s the number that every couple of years, when you get your bone density checked, they’re going to tell you what your T score is, and if they don’t tell you, you should ask for it,” she explained.
They then delve into “microdosing GLP-1’s,” and Dr. Jen said once you lose the weight you want, that’s when you want to tweak your doses.
“It might not just be a low dose; it might be spacing out the frequency.
“So when you get to your maintenance goal range, whatever that is for a different person, that’s when you really want to individualize your management protocol.”
Another fan asked if it’s okay to take it while pregnant, to which Dr. Jen said: “It should be discontinued two months before trying to get pregnant, and it’s not recommended in breastfeeding.”
At the end of the segment, Sheinelle commented on how wonderful and varied the questions were about health & wellness from Dr. Jen’s followers.
She said, “Thank you Dr. Jen!,” to which the doctor said, “I’m always on call for you!”
Sheinelle concluded the segment with “For more great tips, you can check out her podcast, It’s called Dear Dr. Jen, and you can find more of her favorite meals to boost women’s health on our website at Today.com.”
During last week’s segment, Laura Garrett mentioned that Dr. Jen was also featured over on Today.com as their expert with her tip of the day.
Dr. Jen stepped away from Good Morning America back in 2024 to start her own wellness brand, Ajenda.
She had been a staple on the morning show for 13 years before deciding to move on once her contract wrapped up.
She launched her new company to help tackle ongoing issues around menopause health and weight management.
