Brazilian Culture in New York City is mostly in architecture, baile funk, bossa nova, forró, música popular brasileira (MPB), sertanejo, and soccer
NYC Restaurant Week 2026 is a Great Time to Try Latin Food with Family and Friends
Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳🇭🇰🇲🇴🇸🇬🇹🇼 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Film at Lincoln Center is One of NYC’s Leading Film Presenters
“Iracema” (Iracema, uma transa amazônica, 1974) 🇧🇷
“The Secret Agent Network” (O Agente Secreto, 2025), Brazil Oscar Entry, Wagner Moura 🇧🇷
Cinema Tropical Awards 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇻🇪 🇺🇸
New York Jewish Film Festival ✡️
“The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012-2024” Melissa Anderson book signing + “Trenque Lauquen” screening 🇦🇷
Plus 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🌍 Film Festivals
LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Cinema Tropical Awards 2026 Recognize the Year’s Best Latin American and American Latin Films
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Three Kings Day in New York City 2026
January 6 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇮
Oscars 2026 Academy Awards Best International Feature Film Submissions Trailers
DOLBY THEATRE, Hollywood, California and ABC-7 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇸🇳 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Starts a New Era with Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫
FIFA World Cup 2026 Draw Sets Up Soccer Matches in the USA, Mexico, and Canada
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South America 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇾 🇺🇾
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Europe 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
New York City Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” Started The American Holiday Tradition With a Native American Ballerina
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, Lincoln Center 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
African Diaspora International Film Festival NYC Screens the Many Faces of Mother Afrika Around the World
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
CINEMA VILLAGE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
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World Ballet Day is a Behind-The-Scenes View of a Day in Life of the World’s Leading Ballet Companies
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Sotheby’s November Art Auctions in Its New Breuer Building Include Basquiat and Kahlo Masterpieces, and Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Which is a Gift Fit for a King
Leonard A. Lauder Collection 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Surrealist Art 🇲🇽
Now & Contemporary Art 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Modern Art 🇧🇷 🇨🇺
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
American Ballet Theatre Celebrates Twyla Tharp, Presents a Juliano Nunes World Premiere, and a Gala Tribute to Misty Copeland
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
New York Brazilian News
Brazilian New York City
New York City’s Brazilian communities are centered in Midtown and Astoria, Queens. Metro New York’s biggest Brazilian community is in Newark, New Jersey.
New York City’s “Little Brazil” is 46th St between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Midtown, Manhattan.
The Brazilian Consulate is in Murray Hill, Manhattan.
Brazilian Architecture in NYC
The main United Nations architect was Oscar Niemeyer, the renowned modernist who also designed the Brazilian capital Brasília.
Brazilian Art in NYC
Mendes Wood DM gallery
Nara Roesler gallery
United Nations campus lead architect was Oscar Niemeyer. He also designed the Brazilian capital, Brasilia.
Marguerita Bornstein was a famous Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist living in Brooklyn.
Brazilian Dance in NYC
Capoeira is a traditional Brazilian dance/martial art. When the colonizers said we couldn’t practice fighting, we said, we’re just dancing.
Dance Theatre of Harlem has some great Brazilian ballet dancers.
Brazilian Fashion in NYC
Geova makes incredible handmade fashion in the East Village. When you walk into the room in Geova, everyone turns and looks at you. @geova208
Brazilian Festivals in NYC
Brazilian Day is produced by João De Matos.
Brasil Summerfest is the biggest Brazilian music festival, outside of Brazil.
Brazilian Food in NYC
- Brigadeiro Bakery
- Casa
- Churrascaria Plataforma
- Emporium Brasil
- Fogo de Chão
- Ipanema
- Via Brasil
Rio Market is a Brazilian market in Astoria, Queens.
Brazilian Music in NYC
Nublu is a night club in the East Village owned by a Brazilian.
SOB’s Sounds of Brazil is a night club in Hudson Square that presents some Brazilian music.
Azul NYC is a samba drum line.
Batalá New York is a samba reggae drum line.
Bebel Gilberto lives part of the time in New York City.
Forró in the Dark is a New York forró fusion band.
Brazilian Culture
Brazilian Culture in New York City is a reflection of Brazil’s Indigenous, Portuguese, and African Diaspora cultures.
Traditional Brazilian culture includes Candomblé, capoeira, carnival, choro, and samba.
Contemporary Brazilian culture includes bossa nova, música popular brasileira (MPB), forró, sertanejo, baile funk, and soccer.
Candomblé is one of the African Diaspora religions that rooted in the Americas. It sprouted samba, bossa nova, and jazz.
Quilombos were free African towns in the countryside.
Brazilian telenovelas are popular throughout Latin America.
Samba
Brazilian Classical Music
The most famous Latin American classical music composer, is the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Popular Celebrations in Brazil
- Dia dos Enamorados, Brazilian Valentines Day, is June 9.
- Festa de São João (Festa Junina) celebrates the birth of St John the Baptist on the eve of June 24. In Europe, it’s a midsummer festival. In Brazil, it’s a midwinter festival. Both traditions celebrate by lighting bonfires and jumping over them as a cleansing ritual.
Brazil
Brazil is South America’s biggest country. It has the world’s largest African Diaspora population.
Public Holidays in Brazil
Public holidays say something about each country’s character.
- New Year’s Day is January 1.
- Carnival Tuesday is a public holiday. The date varies.
- Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Christ. The date varies.
- Easter is the Christian spring festival. The date varies.
- Tiradentes Day commemorates the execution of Brazilian national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier on April 21, 1792. He led the first major revolt against Portuguese rule. He was a dentist. That’s why the holiday is called “tooth-puller” day.
- Labour Day (International Workers Day) is May 1.
- Corpus Christi celebrates the Catholic tradition of symbolically eating God’s body and drinking his blood.
- Brazilian Independence Day is September 7, 1822.
- Our Lady of Aparecida Day celebrates Brazil’s patron saint with a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida in Aparecida, São Paulo, Brazil, on October 12.
- All Soul’s Day, the Catholic tradition of tending family graves, is blended with Indigenous and African traditions, on November 2.
- Republic Day celebrates the coup d’état that established the Brazilian Republic on November 15, 1889.
- Christmas Day is the Christian solstice celebration on December 25.