Mulberry Street is a principal thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States.
It is historically associated with Italian-American culture and history, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the heart of Manhattan's Little Italy.
[7] In response to reformers such as Riis, the city in the 1890s bought out many of the slumlords and replaced tenements with Columbus Park.
247) is the former Ravenite Social Club, where wire taps acquired evidence that sent John Gotti to prison.
[9][10][11][12] The New York Times sent its reporters to characterize the Little Italy/Mulberry neighborhood in May 1896: They are laborers; toilers in all grades of manual work; they are artisans, they are junkman, and here, too, dwell the rag pickers....There is a monster colony of Italians who might be termed the commercial or shop keeping community of the Latins.
Here are all sorts of stores, pensions, groceries, fruit emporiums, tailors, shoemakers, wine merchants, importers, musical instrument makers....There are notaries, lawyers, doctors, apothecaries, undertakers....