Fuhgeddaboudit? Not Little Italy, Mamdani says after immigrant map backlash while blaming the former mayor for omission

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday that the City will add Little Italy to a public-facing map of immigrant enclaves after Italian American leaders blasted its omission from a World Cup tourism program as an insult to one of New York’s best-known immigrant neighborhoods.Asked about the controversy at an unrelated Manhattan press conference, Mamdani laid some of the blame at his predecessor, Eric Adams, saying the map was “initially created by the prior administration in 2023.” The