A Sicilian in East Harlem
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Harlem’s Hidden History: The Real Little Italy Was Uptown
The neighborhood was devastated by the Great Depression, which crippled the blue collar industries that employed the community, such as construction and steel production. Only the incredible culture and deep familial ties kept the community together as long as it did. Overcrowded and poorly designed, Harlem tenements housed thousands of people packed into dank, inhospitable buildings. Many discovered a world outside of Italian Harlem.
By , almost all the families had moved and most of the few remaining businesses had shuttered, unable to afford the ever increasing rents and discouraged by the death of their beloved neighborhood. They were replaced by several generations of Puerto Rican immigrants fleeing the poverty of their homeland like the Italians before them.
It was and still remains the center of the Italian American community in Harlem. The church cornerstone was laid on Sept. A band heads the parade, which is then followed by members of the Society of Monte Carmelo. The image of the Madonna is carried by four men.
At the end of the parade marched all those who claim that the Madonna had healed them of some malady or performed some other miracle for their benefit, many of whom walk barefoot though the streets of Harlem carrying wax images of the parts afflicted to be presented at the church and to be melted down as candles.
Inside the church is a revered statue of the Virgin Mary, blessed and venerated by the Pope and one of only four such images in the United States. The church holds another festival in the first week of August, the Dance of the Giglio, in honor of St. Italian immigrants from the village of Brusciano, near Naples, brought this cherished tradition with them to America.
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During the festival, an 80 foot, three ton statue is erected and carried on the shoulders of hundreds of people through the streets of Italian Harlem. The Dance of the Giglio returned in after a 29 year hiatus caused by the disintegration of the Italian community.
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You can still find traces of Italian Harlem today. Caponigro exclaims with pride in a thick Italian accent. Born in Pollo, south of Naples, Mr.
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Caponigro came to America in at the age of 20, the son of an Italian-American barber from Jamaica, Queens who had lived in Italy and returned to America while his son was a child. When he arrived in the neighborhood, it was almost all Italian. Despite changes in the community and in his life, Mr.
Claudio has been there so long, he remembers every facet of the old neighborhood. Patsy Lancieri established his famed pizzeria in with his wife Carmine, and it quickly became an integral part of the neighborhood.
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They owned a bakery on the ground floor. Gennaro was shot to death in Giosue continued to increase the family fortune in East Harlem. His many businesses included.
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