I was very eager to take my first walking tour here in New York, because it involved going around the SoHo-Little Italy-Chinatown Lower Manhattan area. These three neighbourhoods are actually located side by side, but over the years the “territories” of each neighbourhood have either expanded or shrunk. I heard that Little Italy used to be much bigger, but after many Italians moved over to New Jersey, the Chinese began to take over their vacant homes.