Walk a few blocks around the intersection of Arthur Avenue and East 187th Street in the Belmont section of New York's Bronx and you are likely to hear Italian spoken, smell the tantalizing aromas of freshly cooked Italian food, and see people going about their grocery shopping at the many specialty stores: the bakery, the cheese and salumi shop, the seafood market, the fresh pasta store.

Just like what you would see in an Italian neighborhood. And that is the pride of the Bronx's Little Italy; many locals say this is the 'real' Little Italy of New York, as compared to Manhattan's Mulberry Street, which many say has lost its authenticity, especially after the Italians moved out, to become merely a tourist attraction.

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Source: http://www.italymagazine.com/