Little Italy, Baltimore

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Little Italy is a neighborhood located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Little Italy, at the corner of Pratt and Albermarle Streets

Situated just east of the Inner Harbor, it boasts one of the city's busiest restaurant districts. It is so named because of large number of Italian immigrant families that moved into the area during the late 19th century and early 20th century. The neighborhood is still home to a large and active Italian ethnic community. Located near newly desirable neighborhoods like Fells Point and HarborEast, Little Italy's housing market is very hot, not least because turnover is low in the tight-knit community.

Little Italy is only a few blocks from the Shot Tower/Market Place station on the Baltimore Metro Subway and the southern terminus of the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83). Current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi grew up in Baltimore's Little Italy.

[edit] Trivia

According to Homicide: Life on the Street, fictional detective Al Giardello was raised in Little Italy, as it was the neighborhood inhabitated by his father's side of the family. Giardello's mother's side of the family was from an African American housing project located near the Little Italy.