Le Petit Sénégal

Le Petit Sénégal, or Little Senegal, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. While calling this neighborhood Le Petit Sénégal or Little Senegal maybe helpful for tourist and people from outside of the community, to better locate it within Uptown Manhattan, it is important to know that the West African immigrant community who live there do not actually refer to their neighborhood as Le Petit Sénégal or Little Senegal.

Le Petit Sénégal is a smaller section of the much larger, and older, neighborhood of Harlem. The neighborhood's exact borders are difficult to define as it is still new, growing from nonexistent in 1985 to 6,500 by 2005. Le Petit Sénégal is generally defined as located in Central Harlem. The neighborhood's main streets are the blocks surrounding West 116th Street between Lenox Avenue / Malcolm X Boulevard on the east and Frederick Douglass Boulevard to the west.

Le Petit Sénégal is the main shopping and social area for many of Harlem's West African immigrants. The majority of these recent immigrants hail from French-speaking Senegal, reflecting the French local name of Little Senegal. However, West African languages, such as Wolof, are also spoken. There are also immigrants from other West African countries, including Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Gambia, and Burkina Faso.

West African shops, restaurants, bistros, bakeries, cafes, and other proprietorships can be found in the neighborhood.