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“Die Hard” actor Robert Davi criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday after Little Italy was not included in a city map showing immigrant enclaves.
The “New York City Immigrant Settlements” map resurfaced on social media earlier this week after users noted that although it highlighted 30 immigrant communities in the five boroughs, it did not include Little Italy as well as historically Jewish and Irish neighborhoods.
Following criticism from Italian-American groups, the city said it plans to update the map to include Little Italy.
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Actor Robert Davi (left) criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for not initially including Little Italy on a map of the city’s immigrant areas. (Erika Goldring/Getty Images; Heather Khalifa/AP Photo)
Davi, who was born in Astoria, Queens, lashed out at Mamdani in a video posted on X, calling her an “asshole” for belittling Little Italy.
“I hope every Italian American and Irish American New Yorker spits on you when they see you,” Davi said. “If I saw you, I would spit in your face. Shame on you, garbage man. Shame on you. Respect the city you’re in and understand the people who helped build it.”
“My grandparents came from Sicily and Naples and they taught me to speak English. This is America. God bless America,” the 75-year-old “License to Kill” actor said.
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Robert Davi in the 1988 movie “Die Hard”.
“My grandfather fought in World War I and was wounded three times…as an immigrant, an Italian immigrant, he helped build New York City,” he continued.
The master actor also suggested that the mayor, whom he described as a “left-wing Marxist communist”, leave the USA.
“Go back to your birthplace, Mamdani,” Davi said. “You don’t belong in America.”
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Manhattan’s Little Italy was removed from the map of New York City’s immigrant district, sparking backlash before Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the neighborhood would be added. (Universal Images Group via Dosfotos/Design Pics Editorial/Getty Images)
Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and moved to the United States when she was 7 years old.
Davi also suggested that a constitutional amendment should be made preventing Mamdani from running for public office.
“You should spend at least a generation in America, especially those of you who come from a country with a completely different philosophical ideology,” he said.
The mayor’s office had previously directed Fox News Digital to cover remarks Mamdani made at an unrelated news conference on Friday, in which he defended the map and said it was first created in 2023 under the previous administration.
“This map was first created by the previous administration in 2023, and when we took it over, we added a few more neighborhoods,” Mamdani said. he said. “This is not a comprehensive list of the more than 200 ethnic communities that call our city home, and we will be making additional changes in the future to reflect this, including Little Italy.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at the pre-visit party for congressional candidate Claire Valdez at 99 Scott Studio on June 23, 2026 in Brooklyn. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
According to the Library of Congress, between the 1880s and 1924, more than 4 million Italians immigrated to the United States, with about a third of them settling in New York.
Fox News Digital’s Brittany Miller contributed to this report.
