Friday, November 11, 2016
East Harlem Gets $10K Grant to Preserve Nation's First Little Italy
The United States' first Little Italy is getting a preservation boost.
The Pleasant Avenue area in East Harlem got a $10,000 grant Thursday from the The New York State Council on the Arts and the Preservation League of New York State to survey the area.
The area was the first in the county to be dubbed Little Italy as it housed the largest concentration of Italian immigrants from the 1800s to the 1970s...