![]() Most of the hispanic and black minority have moved to places like Queens and inner city Bronx or Brooklyn, you know. I would go up to my Grandmothers and climb out onto the fire escape and just gaze at them and I would never get bored. I remember walking past as a child with my mom and just being in awe of how many people were just having dinner, drinking wine and just genuinely happy. The streets on a Saturday night would be closed off, you could smell the food the entire block, people among people among people. She lived there during the peak, and eventual, fall of the Mafia. She lived in the same apartment on Mulberry St for that long and everyone knew who she was. ![]() My grandmother lived in Little Italy for over 55 years before she passed away in 2019. Crazy to think right? I mean it's NEW YORK. Mind you, I'm Puerto Rican, from New York and the diversity that once thrived in that city was 10 fold what it is today.
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