Originally Posted By: mightyhealthy
Downtown must have stopped being downtown pretty soon after that. When did if "turn" if you will.

The real changes started in the late '80s, early '90s. But it happened fast. I mean, like, lightning fast. If Gotti didn't get sent up for life, he would have had to move his operations back to Queens by 2000. And I'm not even kidding. At the 2010 census, there wasn't a single Italian-born resident living in the 10013 Zip Code (Little Italy).


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