San Jose’s Little Italy is getting a street renamed in its honor, but not everyone in the neighborhood is happy. The City Council on Tuesday will vote on renaming part of North Almaden Boulevard “Little Italy Way,” which is not the street the historic Italian American neighborhood originally preferred.
The area’s nonprofit advocacy group had pushed for West St. John Street, the district’s main drag, but that stretch will instead become “Shark’s Way” after city leaders apparently favored their marquee hockey team in the race to shape the identity of downtown’s western gateway.
