Thursday, June 16, 2011

WNYC Ethnic Enclaves Part Three: Andrew Beveridge Talks About (the new) Little Italy and More   by Sydney Beveridge

Each Thursday this month Social Explorer’s Andrew Beveridge will be a guest on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to talk about shifts in new and old ethnic neighborhoods around the city.  Listeners can join the project by contributing their own thoughts and neighborhood notes here.

This Week: Guyanans, Italians, and A Map!


Listener Monica Dus discusses her Italian neighborhood of Astoria, alongside Giuseppe Vitterale, owner of Ornella restaurant. Then Vishnu Mohadeo, a community activist and teacher in Richmond Hill, Queens, discusses the area “Little Guyana”.New Littles now has a map form. WNYC has taken Andrew Beveridge’s data set and mapped it around the city. Explore the full map here, and check out the neighborhoods discussed on today’s show below:




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