Now, though, many Italian residents have left to live with relatives on Long Island, and others have simply died.

By some estimates, there were about 40,000 Italian residents when I was growing up in the neighborhood in the 1950's.

But most of the longtime Italian residents sympathize with their Albanian neighbors.

In 1938, the town had 12,000 residents, including 6,000 permanent Italian residents.

Irish and Italian residents pelted the marchers with tomatoes and apples.

There was also one significant early Italian resident by the name of Jorge Burgues.

His place, in a neighborhood where Italian, Irish and Hispanic residents seem to mix quite easily, has become a sort of social club.

Later on, when Italy also declared war, significant numbers of Italian residents were also interned.

At this time all the Italian residents left the island.

Did you know that long-term Italian residents in Belgium today still have to go to their place of birth to renew their identity card?