{"id":24063,"date":"2026-08-01T08:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=24063"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:51:55","slug":"gop-gov-hopeful-bruce-blakeman-rips-mamdani-over-intentional-little-italy-snub-from-immigrant-map-during-nyc-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=24063","title":{"rendered":"GOP gov hopeful Bruce Blakeman rips Mamdani over \u2018intentional\u2019 Little Italy snub from immigrant map during NYC event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F07%2F136140420.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman on Friday accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of intentionally <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/08\/us-news\/mayor-mamdanis-map-of-nyc-immigrant-neighborhoods-sparks-outrage-for-ignoring-little-italy-terrible-mistake\/\">leaving Little Italy off a map<\/a> of the Big Apple\u2019s immigrant enclaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The map, titled \u201cNew York City Immigrant Enclaves,\u201d highlights 30 areas across the five boroughs, ranging from Koreatown in Manhattan to Little Pakistan in Brooklyn and Little Yemen in The Bronx <\/p>\n<p>But notably left off the map was the famous Italian-American neighborhood in Manhattan, sparking a steady wave of outrage since early July. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was intentional that not only the Little Italy here, down in Lower Manhattan on Mulberry Street, was left off as an important immigration point, but also Little Odessa in Brooklyn, and Astoria, where the Greek Americans came from, Hell\u2019s Kitchen, where the Irish Americans came from,\u201d Blakeman told The Post at event in the slighted neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Blakeman argued the omission was part of a \u201cpattern\u201d by Mamdani of disrespecting certain immigrant communities.  <span class=\"credit\">Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blakeman, who\u2019s currently serving as the elected Nassau County executive, argued the omission was part of a \u201cpattern\u201d by Mamdani of \u201cdenigrating the immigrants that came here before and built this city.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHe has no respect for them. He has no respect for people who have a different opinion than he does,\u201d Blakeman fumed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The GOP candidate noted that Mamdani also canceled the traditional Puerto Rican Day breakfast at Gracie Mansion last month; skipped the Israel Day parade in May and passed on attending the installation of New York\u2019s new archbishop, Ronald Hicks, in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you put this all together, and it\u2019s not one thing. It\u2019s a pattern,\u201d Blakeman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike Crispi, the president of the Italian American Civil Rights League, told the crowd of about 100 people, who were holding up signs that said \u201cLittle Italy Forever,\u201d that Italian Americans all over, not just in Little Italy, felt insulted by the map snub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Arthur Avenue, and Staten Island, and Howard Beach, and Queens, Italian Americans aren\u2019t just here in Little Italy. They are all over the tri-state area, and Italian Americans have contributed so much to this great city, and we are not going to let people take our city away from us and rob it of its identity,\u201d Crispi said. \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Blakeman accused Mamdani of intentionally leaving Little Italy off the map.  <span class=\"credit\">Matt Roberts\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Earlier this month, Mamdani blamed Eric Adams for the map flap and said a future version would include Little Italy. <span class=\"credit\">New York City Tourism + Conventions<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this month, Mamdani <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/10\/us-news\/mamdani-defends-immigrant-map-of-nyc-says-little-italy-will-soon-be-recognized-by-his-admin\/\">blamed the map flap <\/a>on his predecessor, former Mayor Eric Adams, but vowed to include Little Italy in a future iteration of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis map was originally created by the prior administration in 2023, and when we inherited it, we added a few additional neighborhoods,\u201d Hizzoner said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clearly not an exhaustive list of the more than 200 ethnic enclaves,\u201d Mamdani added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to be making additional changes in the future to reflect that\u2026 including Little Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Italian Americans were outraged that Mamdani\u2019s map did not include Little Italy.  <span class=\"credit\">Helayne Seidman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of the event, which was sponsored by Turning Point USA, Sicilian artist Sergio Furmari unveiled a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/15\/us-news\/charlie-kirk-freedom-statue-to-be-unveiled-in-center-of-the-universe-in-nyc-on-anniversary-of-his-death\/\">statue of Charlie Kirk<\/a> that he plans to display in Times Square on Sept. 10, the one-year anniversary of the conservative activist\u2019s shocking assassination.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman on Friday accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of intentionally leaving Little Italy off a map of the Big Apple\u2019s immigrant enclaves.\u00a0 The map, titled \u201cNew York City Immigrant Enclaves,\u201d highlights 30 areas across the five boroughs, ranging from Koreatown in Manhattan to Little Pakistan in Brooklyn and Little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/136140420.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}