Little Italy is a touristy neighborhood in lower Manhattan adjacent to Chinatown and known for its huge number of Italian restaurants.

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The main street in Little Italy is Mulberry Street, where you'll find the most shops, pizzerias and restaurants.

Italy in the heart of New York City

New York's Italian neighborhood experienced a tumultuous development between the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was the most authentic and the most "Italian".

Since the 1960s, when the population of neighboring Chinatown began to expand exponentially, the Italian population has simultaneously declined. Residents gradually moved to other parts of the U.S. and no new residents arrived.

Today, none of Little Italy's residents are native Italians, yet the neighborhood retains some of its genius loci.

Experience Italian cuisine

Both Mulberry Street and Grand Street are surrounded by Italian restaurants, cafes and pizzerias.

Don't count on the authentically great quality you'll find when you stroll the streets of Milan, Venice or Siena, but this is still where you'll find the best Italian restaurants in all of New York.

Cheap hotels in the area

Little Italy is one of New York's cheaper neighborhoods, and in the off-season you can get a room in a decently rated hotel here from 150 usd.

For example, we would recommend these hotels:

• Sohotel ****
• Solita Soho Hotel ***

How to get there

Little Italy can be reached by subway via several stations.

• Canal St (south end of the district) - brown lines J, Z
• Spring St (northwest edge of the district) - green line 6
• Bowery (northeast edge of the district) - brown lines J, Z
• Grand St (eastern edge of the district) - orange lines B, D

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