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 * Johnny Fontane
 * Luca Brasi

Little Italy is a term that can apply to several different locales. The name refers to a neighborhood dominated by people of Italian ethnicity. In film, Little Italy is most commonly attributed to an area of lower Manhattan. It is bounded on the west by Tribeca and Soho, on the south by Chinatown, on the east by the Bowery and Lower East Side, and on the north by Nolita. Little Italy on Mulberry Street used to extend as far south as Worth Street, as far north as Kenmare Street, as far west as Lafayette Street, and as far east as Bowery. It is now only three blocks on Mulberry Street. Little Italy originated as Mulberry Bend. Jacob Riis described Mulberry Bend as "the foul core of New York’s slums.

In the 1972 film The Godfather, the character of Johnny Fontane is said to have been born in Little Italy. This information is not supplied within the movie itself, but rather in the 1969 novel, The Godfather, by author Mario Puzo.