New York City as Film Set: From Mean Streets to Clean Streets - New York Times by possibly noteworthy at 7:40 am EDT, May 1, 2006
"When I was kid," he said, "you didn't dare walk on an Irish or Italian block, and they didn't dare walk on our block, which was Jewish. But that is gone. It's getting very chic down there."
It's gotten very chic almost everywhere in Manhattan.