he next three decades to 1993, when Thomas M. Menino would become Boston's first Italian-American mayor" (Nichols 2003). Through all of these developments, the North End stayed the same in terms of its isolation and poverty, but as the Irish population began dwindling, reaching a low of fewer than 3,000 in the late 1870s, "South Boston replaced...the North End as the area of the majority of Irish settlement" (Nichols 2003).
In 1877, the North End was in the beginning of a new influx of immigrants, that of Eastern European Jews (Nichols 2003). Starting in 1870 and ending in approximately 1900, this influx resulted in nearly one-third of the neighborhood's population being comprised of Jews by the early 1900s, settled in "a modest enclave comprising several blocks along Salem Street" (Nichols 2003). With any influx of immigrants to the North End always came new types of shops and industry, and that of the Jews was no exception. The Jewish character of the neighborhood was soon evident by the presence of little Jewish shops
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