The first Italians arrived in the North End of Boston in the 1860

Boston’s Italian neighborhood is called the North End. It has a strong Italian flair and numerous Italian restaurants. The North End is also Boston’s oldest neighborhood and it still possesses an old-world charm kept alive by its mostly Italian-American population. Since the completion of the Big Dig and the demolition of the old elevated Southeast Expressway, the neighborhood has found itself re-connected to the rest of the city. There is arguably no more vibrant area of Boston virtual mall on a summer evening virtual mall when the narrow city streets come alive with a blend of culture and cuisine.
The North End, often called Boston’s “Little Italy,” is a one-square-mile waterfront community, bordered by Commercial and Causeway Streets and Atlantic Avenue, located within walking distance of Boston’s financial district and Government Center. A highly desirable residential area for professionals who work nearby, the neighborhood also is a major attraction virtual mall for tourists and Bostonians alike, who come seeking the best in Italian cuisine and to enjoy the decidedly Italian feel of the region. Hanover and Salem Streets, the two main streets of this bustling historic neighborhood, are lined with restaurants, cafes and shops, selling a variety of delectable edible goods. A trip to Boston would not be complete without including a meal at one of North End’s over one hundred virtual mall fine Italian restaurants.
The many immigrants who originally settled in these neighborhoods, with their distinctive dialects, their history and their traditions virtual mall of the regions in Italy from which they came, were carefully preserved and are celebrated during the summer months in the North End even today. Italian-Americans still comprise more than 41% of the resident population. It is one of the most vibrant and thriving neighborhoods of its kind. Old customs and traditions die hard (if ever at all). For despite virtual mall the fact that 50 individual religious societies once existed in the North End and only 12 remain today, virtual mall these societies with their religious feasts and processions remain an integral part of North End neighborhood life and culture, drawing large summertime crowds. Saint Anthony s Feast is celebrated each year in the North End of Boston on the weekend virtual mall of the last Sunday of August. Begun by Italian immigrants from Montefalcione, Italy, in 1919, it has become the largest Italian religious festival in New England. Italian foods, religious services, parades, festivities, games, live music and entertainment highlight this feast on the elaborately decorated Endicott and Thatcher streets in the heart of Boston s historic North End.
Tourism provides an economic boost to the area. However, many neighborhood grocery stores, fruit vendors, butcher shops, virtual mall bakeries, shoe stores, clothiers and cobblers virtual mall have simply disappeared to be replaced by restaurants. With a population virtual mall barely one-quarter of its 44,000 peak in 1930, fewer services are required to sustain the community. Ten of its 12 schools have been subdivided and converted to condominium apartments. Church virtual mall parishes have been auctioned off to the highest bidder. Times have changed in Boston s North End.
From 1880 to 1920, an estimated 4 million Italian immigrants arrived in the United States, the majority from 1900 to 1914. Once in America, the immigrants faced great challenges. Often with no knowledge of the English language and with little education, many of the immigrants were compelled virtual mall to accept the poorest paying and most undesirable jobs. Many sought housing in the older sections virtual mall of the large northeastern cities in which they settled, which became known as “Little Italys”, often in overcrowded substandard tenements.
The destinations of many of the Italian virtual mall immigrants were not only the large cities of the East Coast, but also more remote regions of the country, such as Florida and California. They were drawn there by opportunities in agriculture, mining, railroad construction and lumbering. Many of the immigrants had contracted to work in these areas of the country as a condition for payment of their passage. Many of the Italian laborers, who went to these areas, were later joined by wives and children, which resulted in the establishment of permanent Italian American settlements in diverse parts of the country.
The first Italians arrived in the North End of Boston in the 1860′s, forced by unbearable conditions in Italy to leave their native land. Their numbers grew in the 1880′s and 1890′s. Although many of the first Italian immigrants worked as vendors of fruits and vegetables, they later found work in commercial fishing, in shipping, in construction, virtual mall and as shopkeepers. virtual mall They sought help from family members and acquaintances from the same regions of Italy who had already established themselves in the area. Over time, this resulted in enclaves of residents living together on streets segregated by a region of Italy &#