All kidding aside, but you'd be shocked at how many Albanians pass themselves off as Italian. It's possible that you saw some of them. And don't feel bad, they fool me all the time. And like I said, I'm here all my life.

I posted about this fairly recently. But they're almost all from Montenegro, which is just on the other side of the Adriatic. They speak better Italian than anyone born here, and some of them even look Italian. When you throw in the fact that they settled in all of the Bronx neighborhoods that the Italians left behind, and that they own something like 75 percent of the pizzerias in New York City, it's actually very understandable.

They've done very well for themselves. It's estimated that Albanian Americans own over thirty percent of the apartment buildings here in the Bronx.