I would have to respectfully disagree with Dante. Although the majority of Italian immigrants came from the south, MANY from the north settled in NY, NJ, PA areas. My parents people were from Genoa and Piedmont and they grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan with many families from that area. Many people from the area were connected and a small number were lcn. I now live in Philadelphia and there are two Italian clubs of northern origin. The Venetian Club and the Piemonte club. Agree the majority of the Italian immigrants on the east coast are southern but not all