Le Petit Senegal West 116th Street between Lenox Avenue / Malcolm X Boulevard on the east and Frederick Douglass Boulevard to the west. Le Petit Senegal is the main shopping and social area for many of Harlem's West African immigrants. The majority of these recent immigrants hail from (partially) French speaking Senegal, reflecting the French local name of Little Senegal. However, African languages, such as Wolof, are also spoken in this part of Manhattan. There are also immigrants from other West African countries, including Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Gambia, and Burkina Faso. West African stores, restaurants, bistros, bakeries, cafes, and other proprietorships
Senegal jack of a number of groups known as the jacks or trevallies. "Caranx" itself is part of the larger jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae, a group of percoid fishes in the order Perciformes. The species was first scientifically described by the famed French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1833 based on a specimen taken from the mouth of the Senegal River at Gorée, Senegal, which was designated to be the holotype. Cuvier named the new species "Caranx senegallus" with the specific epithet referring to the country the holotype was taken from. The species was independently redescribed twice; both times by the