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Portuguese NYC

Portuguese NYC is centered in Newark, New Jersey and Astoria, Queens.

Portuguese food is delicious with amazing seafood including bacalhau (salted cod). Fado music is popular around the world.

We love Portuguese people and culture, but Portugal was a colonizer. Even worse, Portugal started and ran much of the Atlantic slave trade. All the Portuguese colonizers cared about was gold and collecting souls like Facebook likes. Never forget that most of those beautiful buildings and churches in Lisbon and across the old Portuguese Empire were paid for with lots of Indigenous and African blood. Never forget.

Portuguese food is delicious with amazing seafood including bacalhau (salted cod).

Fado music is a Portuguese culture loved around the world.

News From Portuguese NYC

Portuguese Festivals

  • Portugal Day
  • Portugal Day Parade
  • Portugal Day Street Fair
  • Our Lady of Fatima

The 61st New York Film Festival Screens the Heartbeat of New World Cinema

One of the longest-running and most respected film festivals in the United States screens many Latin American and Latin European films.

September 29 to October 15, 2023
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, BAM, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Maysles Documentary Center, Paris Theater, Museum of the Moving Image

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Portuguese NYC Archive

January 2023

The Winter Show 2023, one of America’s leading antiques fairs, is a benefit for East Side House, a community services organization in Mott Haven, The Bronx. The antiques fair is at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; for ten days, from Friday-Sunday, January 20-29, 2023. $30. 🇦🇷🇺🇸 | 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇪🇸

December 2022

Watch Morocco vs Portugal (world #22 vs #9), a FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar Quarter-final match, on Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 11am ET. 🇲🇦🇵🇹

November 2022

The FIFA World Cup 2022 is in Qatar November 20 – December 18, 2022. The final is December 18, 2022 in Lusail Iconic Stadium on the outskirts of Doha. The World Cup is being broadcast in English on Fox Sports and in Spanish on Telemundo 47. 🇨🇷 🇪🇨 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 | 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇺🇾 | 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇨🇲 🇬🇭 🇲🇦 🇸🇳 🇹🇳

October 2022

The Medieval Festival NYC 2022 is in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights on Sunday, October 2, 2022 from 11:30am – 6pm. Free with food and crafts for purchase. 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸

September 2021

The 59th New York Film Festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Fri, Sep 24 – Oct 10, 2021. 🇦🇴🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇴🇫🇷🇮🇳🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸🇺🇸

Portuguese Festivals in NYC

Portugal Day and the Fado Festival are New York City’s big Portuguese celebrations.

Portuguese New York City

There is a Portuguese community in Astoria, Queens, but the big one is in the Ironbound District of Newark, New Jersey. There is a Luso-American Social Club in Caroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

Portuguese Culture

Portugal is a seafaring nation. Fado is the music of “saudade”, the terrible longing that sailors and their loved ones feel when they are far away from each other. Portuguese speakers say the full meaning of the word cannot be translated, but if you are far from home, you know what it means. Fado is medicine for saudade.

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