Friday Madness: What Happened to Little Italy on the Mamdani Map?
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“Die Hard” actor Robert Davi criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday after a map of the city showing immigrant enclaves did not include “Little Italy.”
The “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” map resurfaced on social media earlier this week after users pointed out that it did not include Little Italy and historically Jewish and Irish neighborhoods, despite highlighting 30 immigrant communities across the five boroughs.
After criticism from Italian-American groups, city officials said they plan to update the map to include Little Italy.
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Actor Robert Davi (left) criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (right) after a map of the city’s immigrant enclaves initially did not include Little Italy. (Erica Goldring/Getty Images; Heather Khalifa/AP Photo)
Davi, who was born in Astoria, Queens, lashed out at Mamdani in a video posted on X, calling him a “jerk” for disparaging Little Italy.
“I hope every Italian and Irish American in New York City spits on you when they see you,” Davi said. “I would spit on you if I saw you. Shame on you, garbage man. Shame on you. Respect the city you live in and understand the people who helped build it.”
“My grandparents came from Sicily and Naples and they taught me to speak English. This is America. God bless America,” the 75-year-old “License to Kill” actor said.
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Robert Davy in the 1988 film Die Hard.
“My grandfather fought in World War I and was wounded three times…he helped build New York as an immigrant, an Italian immigrant,” he continued.
The veteran actor also suggested that the mayor, whom he called a “left-wing communist-Marxist,” should leave the United States.
“Go back to where you were born, Mamdani,” Davi said. “You don’t belong in America.”
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Manhattan’s Little Italy was removed from New York City’s immigrant enclave map, sparking backlash before Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the area would be added. (Dosfotos/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda and moved to the United States when he was 7 years old.
Davi also proposed a constitutional amendment to prohibit Mamdani from running for public office.
“You should spend at least a generation in America, especially those of you who come from a country that has a completely different philosophical ideology,” he said.
The mayor’s office previously forwarded to Fox News Digital remarks Mamdani made during an unrelated press conference on Friday, where he defended the map and said it was originally created under the previous administration in 2023.
“This map was originally created by the previous administration in 2023, and when we inherited it, we added some additional neighborhoods,” Mamdani said. “This is clearly not an exhaustive list of the more than 200 ethnic communities that call our city home, and we intend to make additional changes in the future to reflect this, including Little Italy.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during an evening party for congressional candidate Claire Valdez at 99 Scott Studio on June 23, 2026 in Brooklyn. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
According to the Library of Congress, more than 4 million Italians immigrated to the United States between the 1880s and 1924, about one-third of whom settled in New York City.
Fox News Digital’s Brittany Miller contributed to this report.