The following letter, written by Thomas A. Gentile in response to a 2002 New York Times story [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/nyregion/well-ices-are-still-italian-immigration-patterns-shift-altering-old-neighborhood.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm] on changes in Bensonhurst’s ethnic makeup – a demographic shift that back then had just begun – is, in many