by Sarah Maslin Nir
"Little" is the operative word these days in Little Italy. The Manhattan neighborhood south of Houston and west of the Bowery is now nearly bereft of the Italian immigrants who once packed tenements and opened so many restaurants serving marinara-drenched tastes of home that in its heyday Mulberry Street was a veritable Via Veneto.
But on Wednesday evening, Little Italy got a little more Italian. Striding down Mulberry Street, his shirt collar unbuttoned, came the mayor of Naples, Italy, Luigi de Magistris, waving to passers-by who called out "Viva Napoli!" and asked him to pose with them for selfies, and stopping to sample American-made buffalo mozzarella (which he declared "delizioso").
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