[2] In total, 18,179 people of Italian birth or descent lived in the city, comprising 13% of the foreign-stock white population.
[3] In the 1960 United States Census, Italian-Americans comprised 71% of the foreign-stock white population in Little Italy, Baltimore's tract 3–2.
Italian immigrants who arrived by train would enter the city through the President Street Station.
Other neighborhoods where large numbers of Italians settled include Lexington, Belair-Edison, and Cross Street.
St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Little Italy held a vigil and sent prayers to the victims and survivors of the earthquake.
Pica's remarks were condemned by Ryan Dorsey, a Baltimore City Council member of Italian descent.