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Little Italy, being an Italian enclave, has a heavy presence of the [[The Commission|Italian Mafia]].  It gives the impression of being an "old-world" neighborhood with its cobbled, narrow streets.  As with many of the older, immigrant-heavy neighborhoods in the city, the neighborhood features a number of pre-war style tenements, with many alleyways intersecting the short city blocks.  Most of the neighborhood's aforementioned restaurants are clustered along Brown Place, whereas Denver Avenue serves as the main commercial strip.
Little Italy, being an Italian enclave, has a heavy presence of the [[The Commission|Italian Mafia]].  It gives the impression of being an "old-world" neighborhood with its cobbled, narrow streets.  As with many of the older, immigrant-heavy neighborhoods in the city, the neighborhood features a number of pre-war style tenements, with many alleyways intersecting the short city blocks.  Most of the neighborhood's aforementioned restaurants are clustered along Brown Place, whereas Denver Avenue serves as the main commercial strip.


===Places of Interest==
===Places of Interest===
Little Italy, being so small, does not have many places of interest of its own.  [[Drusilla's]], an Italian restaurant, is located near the intersection of Feldspar Street and Denver Avenue.  [[Kiki Jenkins]], one of the women Niko is able to date, owns an apartment on Feldspar Street between Brown Place and Denver Avenue.  Finally, in [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]], the leader of the Triads, [[Hsin Jaoming]], owns a penthouse in the neighborhood.
As such a small neighborhood, Little Italy does not have many places of interest of its own.  [[Drusilla's]], an Italian restaurant, is located near the intersection of Feldspar Street and Denver Avenue.  [[Kiki Jenkins]], one of the women Niko is able to date, owns an apartment on Feldspar Street between Brown Place and Denver Avenue.  Finally, in [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]], the leader of the Triads, [[Hsin Jaoming]], owns a penthouse in the neighborhood.


Despite not having many places of interest, Little Italy is in proximity to many attractions in other neighborhoods, such as the [[Rotterdam Tower]] in Suffolk and the [[Civic Citadel]] in City Hall.  
Despite not having many places of interest, Little Italy is in proximity to many attractions in other neighborhoods, such as the [[Rotterdam Tower]] in Suffolk and the [[Civic Citadel]] in City Hall.  

Revision as of 13:41, 6 November 2009

Little Italy is a district in Liberty City. In Grand Theft Auto III it was called Fort Staunton, after "Little Italy" was destroyed by Toni Cipriani in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.

GTA III Era Overview

The district itself was not called Little Italy and was considered part of the area of Fort Staunton. Sometime between 1992 and 1998, the Forelli Family moved its operations here from Saint Marks (notably Marco's Bistro). It was here that Franco Forelli ran the operations of the family. In 1998, Toni Cipriani entered the abandoned subway system that ran underneath the area in order to demolish the area and allow Donald Love to begin a deal with the Panlantic Construction Company, which involved a large area of land (none of which was available prior to the destruction of the neighborhood). The Forellis had begun using the abandoned tunnels to store weapons, further adding to the destruction of the neighborhood once the bombs that Toni had placed were set off. The district was destroyed, killing many people, including Franco Forelli (presumably, as he is not mentioned or heard from after this incident). Soon after, Donald Love and the Panlantic Company begin renovating the area, with the Colombian Cartel eventually gaining control of the area by 2001, and the Yakuza stealing it from them that same year.

GTA IV Era

Little Italy is a neighborhood in southern Algonquin, Liberty City. It is bordered to the north by Feldspar Street and to the west by Liberty Lane (Suffolk); to the south by Emerald Street (City Hall); and to the east by Columbus Avenue (Lower Easton). These borders make Little Italy the smallest neighborhood in all of Liberty City and Grand Theft Auto IV in general.

Character

Little Italy, being an Italian enclave, has a heavy presence of the Italian Mafia. It gives the impression of being an "old-world" neighborhood with its cobbled, narrow streets. As with many of the older, immigrant-heavy neighborhoods in the city, the neighborhood features a number of pre-war style tenements, with many alleyways intersecting the short city blocks. Most of the neighborhood's aforementioned restaurants are clustered along Brown Place, whereas Denver Avenue serves as the main commercial strip.

Places of Interest

As such a small neighborhood, Little Italy does not have many places of interest of its own. Drusilla's, an Italian restaurant, is located near the intersection of Feldspar Street and Denver Avenue. Kiki Jenkins, one of the women Niko is able to date, owns an apartment on Feldspar Street between Brown Place and Denver Avenue. Finally, in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the leader of the Triads, Hsin Jaoming, owns a penthouse in the neighborhood.

Despite not having many places of interest, Little Italy is in proximity to many attractions in other neighborhoods, such as the Rotterdam Tower in Suffolk and the Civic Citadel in City Hall.

Influence

Little Italy is a direct copy of Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood. Everything about the GTA IV neighborhood (obviously its name, its size, its cobbled streets, the heavily Italian presence, its architecture) is reminiscent of the actual neighborhood.

=Transportation

While Little Italy is not directly served by the Liberty City Subway, there are two stations within proximity of the neighborhood. The Suffolk station on the K/C Algonquin Inner Line is located on Garnet Street between Back Passage and Ersatz Row in its namesake neighborhood; the station is underneath the Rotterdam Tower and as such, is a popular stop for tourists wishing to visit it.

The Feldspar station on the A/J Algonquin Outer Line is located at the intersection of Emerald Street, Frankfort Aveue, and Union Drive West, at the borders of Castle Garden City, City Hall, and Suffolk.

=Trivia

  • Little Italy is a good spot to find the rare Sentinel XS, because of the Italians that drive them.
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A street in Little Italy, with City Hall in the background