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"Little Italies" and other urban Italian neighborhoods are of course a shadow of once they were as old immigrants died off and younger generations moved to the suburbs and became more assimilated (although suburban enclaves did develop such as the South Shore of Staten Island, St. Leonard outside Montreal and Woodbridge outside Toronto). What are some of the most intact Italian neighborhoods at this point?

My guess is the most intact at this point are Bensonhurst/Dyker Heights/Bath Beach in SW Brooklyn, and the Dufferin-St. Clair "Corso Italia" in Toronto (a further flung neighborhood from Toronto's Little Italy). They've declined significantly from the 1990s on and are now quite ethnically mixed but still retain a lot of old school Italians who can still get by in the mother tongue.