A Brief History of Italians in East Harlem in Three Acts (2009)

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@PsalmsPoetic 5 жыл бұрын

I'm Black but I grew up in East Harlem. In my day it was Spanish Harlem because it was predominantly Puerto Rican. My father purchased a building on 117th in 1st Avenue in the late 70s into the mid 80s where he ran a night club he called Dominos. Up the street from him was an Italian Pizza shop called Patsy's. I drove by there the other day and after all these years it's still there. I almost cried. My father, who did in 2007 always got me pizza from there.

5 жыл бұрын

Patsy's is the best around ! Great apizza !

@johnsradios484 4 жыл бұрын

PsalmsPoetic I grew up on 119 th & First Avenue and later moved to 116 th & First. Seems like patsy pizzeria was always there.

@yankees29 3 жыл бұрын

Your dad knew good pizza! Sorry to hear about your dad’s passing. God bless .

@tonycamaj7243 3 жыл бұрын

The best pizza in the city

@JuanCruz-uu5lr 2 жыл бұрын

I remember on 117 and first Avenue there was a Club it was owned by a Man. Name Eddie older man

@vajraloka1 3 жыл бұрын

My grandmother/father was Italian immigrants .lived in housing projects in bronx. I barely remember the visits. I was born in late 50s in Sloan Kettering hospital (wherever that was)

@gemini2633 5 жыл бұрын

Im born and raised in 116 and pleasant Avenue Claudio gave me my first ever haircut as a child. I'm Puerto Rican and loved and miss my neighborhood.

@bruttosporcoecattivo 4 жыл бұрын

What was the reletionship between Puerto Ricans and Italians back then? (I'm Italian from Italy)

@henny6566 2 жыл бұрын

@@bruttosporcoecattivo A lot of fighting, a lot of racism, a lot of gang activity. Italians were very racist towards Puerto Ricans.

@bruttosporcoecattivo 2 жыл бұрын

@@henny6566 Really? What times are we talking about? Btw it's really sad to read about this. Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, I mean people from the Caribbeans and Latinos in general seem to be so kind and fun to hang around. Very disappointed to find out Italians were racist towards them. Are you Puerto Rican?

@henny6566 2 жыл бұрын

@@bruttosporcoecattivo Yes I am and by the time I was a kid the Italians were pretty much gone from the neighborhood. Just Latinos and blacks remained. But my parents and grandparents would tell me the stories of how Italians thought they were so much better and would start fights. I mean I kind of understand because they were there first. It was their neighborhoods and then the Puerto Ricans started moving in during the 50's and 60's. Dominicans came around the 80's. By the 90's when I was kid only very few Italians remained.

@bruttosporcoecattivo 2 жыл бұрын

@@henny6566 Uhm...we're probably about the same age. I was a kid too during the 90's. Here in Italy we're facing a lot of immigration now. Many people from Africa, northern Africa, Asia, eastern Europe and so on are coming in. There's defenetly some racism going on, and I think it's inevitable when the situation it's so chaotic, but in my opinion it's more due to cultural and social differences than just a matter of race. Anyway the younger generation seem to care way less about race and bs like that. And even if the majority of African people here live in extremely poor conditions, the racism we see here it's nothing compared to what you see in the US, IMO.

@D.N.. 4 жыл бұрын

Few people know that there was an Italian Harlem ! 🎉🎆

@myfauna1 5 жыл бұрын

Loved going down memory lane. I lived in 441 e 116st. Born there 1944 to 1958-9. Moved to bronx. Long before being called Spanish harlem. P.s. 78. Mrs. Silverstein, boil and sparks. Favorite place , boys club, and camp carey. Balloon spaldin, off the stoop. Kick the can. Rigalearo. Johnny on the pony. 10 cent Italian ices. Manhattan special soda. Tomas Jefferson pool. Watching bocce players in park. Helped my older sister with t.j.p. Plot growing g vegetables and working at summer feast of our lady mt. Carmel.

@raegaeta4450 5 жыл бұрын

Lived at 449117street

@shalomccs 4 жыл бұрын

I love East Harlem specially 1969 -1973 years. I used to go to Patsy when was owned by a beautiful and sweet Italian old lady and her husband. I think they were Frankly grandparents who runs the restaurant now . First stop when I take a plane is Patsy East 117 St and 1st Ave the original one.Best pizza in NYC.

@borgata_boss4088 3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day it was ground zero for heroin importation which was controlled by the Lucchese Family of LCN

@roderickstockdale1678 24 күн бұрын

Who were based out of East Harlem

@carloo7622 6 жыл бұрын

Italian East Harlem needs a revival. 114th Street and Pleasant Avenue would be the place to start. The Italians and Albanians should just open up businesses there and reestablish Little Italy Harlem.

@mikecolon9630 3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe I haven't seen Mrs Evan's since I used to be friends with Vincent your youngest son back in the early80s, My name was Mike Colon and we were classmates from ps96 . I remember your dog brownie knocked me into a rose bush❤in your back yard