It also contains a mix of other typical urban businesses such as sandwich and pizza shops, convenience stores, and tattoo parlors.

Other important streets in the neighborhood include Broadway, home to restaurants as well as professional, medical and legal offices, but also to the historic Columbus Theatre.

Other than a commercial and warehouse section in the area of Dean and Washington Streets, most of the rest of the neighborhood is residential, often catering to college students.

[2] In the summer of 2018 the plaza's "famous" fountain was in a state of partial disrepair, with only two levels flowing and the base filled with plants.

Because anti-federalist sentiment was strong in Rhode Island, General William West led 1,000 armed farmers to Providence to stop the celebration.

[10] In 1840, only the lower streets of the hill were occupied, and that mostly by Irish immigrants who worked in the nearby textile shops and foundries.

Yet, by the early 1850s, part of Atwells Avenue was clustered with two and three story tenements that housed the large influx of those who fled the famine of 1845 to 1851.

Though the area today is more diverse, Federal Hill still retains its status as the traditional center for the city's Italian-American community.

Providence's annual Columbus Day parade marches down Atwells Avenue, where the street's median is painted with the Italian flag's Tri-color instead of the usual double yellow lines.

He ran the crime family from 1954 until 1984 from the National Cigarette Service Company and Coin-O-Matic Distributors, a vending machine and pinball business on Atwells Avenue.

According to the Providence Plan, a local nonprofit aimed at improving city life, 47% of residents are white, 32.1% Hispanic, and 14.8% are African-American.

The area's proximity to Johnson and Wales University has allowed Providence to attract and retain skilled chefs, many of whom work in restaurants on Atwells Avenue.

Federal Hill plays a central role in the story "The Haunter of the Dark" by Providence-born writer H.P.