Mamdani to Add Little Italy After Immigrant-Map Backlash

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his administration will add Little Italy and other communities to the city's World Cup immigrant-enclaves map after backlash over omissions of Italian, Irish and Jewish neighborhoods. The tourism map highlighted 30 communities, including Little Palestine, Little Egypt and Little Yemen, while critics said long-rooted Jewish areas such as Borough Park and Italian and Irish districts were absent. Mamdani said the list was inherited from the prior administration, was not exhaustive and would be changed. The dispute matters to Israel-focused readers because diaspora Jewish visibility and historical memory are being tested inside a city where anti-Israel politics already shape public life.