Geographically, Little Italy is a small section of Manhattan, a narrow wedge bounded by Houston Street to the north, Canal Street to the south, Mulberry to the east, and Broadway to the west. But Italian–American culture has become so integrated with New York’s colorful history that to walk along Mulberry Street amid sidewalk cafes, cheery tenements and the bustle of pedestrian life is to feel that you have come upon the idyllic New York City of yesteryear. Little Italy used to be much larger, covering parts of SoHo and Greenwich Village until the 1920s, but since then the Italian–American population has spread throughout the city.