Little Italy is a popular tourist neighbourhood in Lower Manhattan, bordering Chinatown, and is 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

New York’s Italian quarter experienced rapid growth at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was at its most authentic and most ‘Italian’.

From 1960 onwards, as the population of neighbouringChinatown began to grow exponentially, the Italian population declined. Residents gradually moved to other parts of the US, and no new arrivals came to take their place.

Today, none of Little Italy’s residents are originally from Italy, yet the neighbourhood retains some of its genius loci.

Experience Italian cuisine

The main streets, Mulberry Street and Grand Street, are lined with Italian restaurants, cafés and pizzerias.

Don’t expect the same authentic, top-quality experience as when strolling through the streets of Milan, Venice or Siena, but even so, this is where you’ll find the best Italian restaurants in the whole of New York.

Cheap hotels in the area

Little Italy is one of New York’s more affordable neighbourhoods, and in the off-season you can get a room in a well-reviewed hotel from 150 usd.

We would recommend the following hotels, for example:

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

How to get there

You can get to Little Italy by underground, travelling a few stops.

• Canal St(southern edge of the neighbourhood) – brown lines J, Z
• Spring St(north-western edge of the neighbourhood) – green line 6
• Bowery(north-eastern edge of the neighbourhood) – brown lines J, Z
• Grand St(eastern edge of the neighbourhood) – orange lines B, D

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