Little Britain (West Village)
Greenwich Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets in the West Village of Manhattan, is unofficially called "Little Britain." The teashop Tea & Sympathy, at 108 Greenwich Avenue, is one…
Greenwich Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets in the West Village of Manhattan, is unofficially called "Little Britain." The teashop Tea & Sympathy, at 108 Greenwich Avenue, is one…
The Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn has, since at least the 1980s, added many immigrants from the Caribbean. "We stopped in East Flatbush, known as Little Caribbean" was printed in the…
"Little Chitaly" (Little Italy + Chinatown) is a nickname that reflects a blending of two classic Manhattan neighborhoods. Little Italy began shrinking after the 1960s, and Chinatown grew…
"Little Colombia" is Jackson Heights, Queens. The restaurant bearing this name probably helped. "Chapinero" is a desirable area of Bogota, Colombia. "Little Colombia"…
The northern Manhattan communities of Washington Heights and Inwood have received many immigrants from the Dominican Republic since the 1960s. "The little Dominican Republics of Washington…
The Hudson Yards real estate development is on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan, and was built on a platform over the West Side Yard for Long Island Rail Road trains. When it opened to the public…
Astoria, Queens, is home to "Little Egypt" on Steinway Street, between 28th Avenue and Astoria Boulevard. Arabic restaurants and other shops began to open in the area in the 1980s and…
Manhattan's Chinatown originally had Cantonese speakers. In the 1980s and 1990s, Mandarin speakers from the Fujian Province of China moved in, especially around East Broadway. The nickname…
The East Village was once called "Little Germany," or "Kleindeutschland." Its future was largely destroyed by the deaths in the ship tragedy of the General Slocum in 1904. (See…
"Little Ghana" is a nickname for the Mount Hope (in Tremont) section of the Bronx. The nickname was popularly used in the media in June 2010, when the African nation of Ghana defeated the…
Guyana is a small country in South America. Most of its immigrants to the United States have settled in New York City. Richmond Hill, Queens has been called "Little Guyana" since at least…
New York City's "Little Haiti" is not as concentrated or well known as Miami's "Little Haiti." There was an earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, and reporters went to…
Corona (Queens) was home to a large African-American community that once included jazz great Louis Armstrong. Today, Corona is home to many immigrants from Latin America. The old Corona nickname of…
"Little Hungary" is part of what is now the "East Village." The term is not used any more, but "Little Hungary" was probably one of the earliest "Little"…
"Little India" on East 6th Street in Manhattan, between First and Second Avenues (there is also a "Little India" in Jackson Heights, Queens), began in 1968 when the first Indian…
Jackson Heights, Queens, has been called "Little India" since at least 1985. In 1992, the 74th Street area (between Roosevelt Avenue and 37th Avenue) was officially named "Little…
"Little India" describes the area along Lexington Avenue (between East 26th and East 30th Streets) in Manhattan, just south of Murray Hill. The neighborhood features many Indian…
Little Ireland? That's not a neighborhood -- that's New York City! "'Little Ireland,' sometimes known as the city of New-York" was cited in print in 1891. The Bronx…
Woodlawn, in the Bronx, has had Irish residents since at least the 1840s, when Irish immigrants helped dig the Old Croton Aqueduct. The nickname "Little Ireland," however, wasn't…
There's more than one Little Italy in New York City, and the name is not reserved for New York's alone. Wikipedia: Little Italy, ManhattanLittle Italy is a neighborhood in lower…