Huron,

I think you are seeing it through rose colored glasses. You are seeing what you want to see. I couldn't care less. Or maybe you just hang out on one block that you assume the rest of the neighborhood is like.

The fact is that it's likley significantly less than 10 percent Italian. There are a FAIR number of Italian businesses but only someone with an agenda would drive through the neighborhood as a whole and say: 'Old Italian neighborhood.'