Despite widespread migration to
Staten Island and more suburban areas in metropolitan New York throughout the postwar era, notable concentrations of
Italian Americans continue to reside in the neighborhoods of
Bensonhurst,
Dyker Heights,
Bay Ridge,
Bath Beach and
Gravesend. Less perceptible remnants of older communities have persisted in
Cobble Hill and
Carroll Gardens, where the homes of the remaining Italian Americans can often be contrasted with more recent
upper middle class residents through the display of small
Madonna statues, the retention of plastic-metal stoop awnings and the use of
Formstone in house cladding. All of the aforementioned neighborhoods have retained Italian restaurants, bakeries, delicatessens,
pizzerias, cafes and social clubs.
