Panamanian NYC used to be centered in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. It is spread out now.
Panama is Tamborito, Cumbia, Latin Jazz and Salsa. Reggaeton came to NYC from Jamaicans in Panama.
NYC’s most famous Panamanian is Salsa and Latin Jazz legend Rubén Blades. He’s super cool. He rides the subway and is usually very generous with the public.
Panamanian NYC News
March 17, 2022
Standup in Spanish
Melissa Guevara hosts Audrey Mora, Elisa Levet, Carmen Lynch and Andrea Pascasio at Español Please at the Broadway Comedy Club in Hell’s Kitchen on Sat, Mar 19 at 10pm. $25. 🇲🇽🇵🇦🇪🇸
Panamanian Parade NYC 2021
Saturday, October 9, 2021
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn
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Previously in Panamanian NYC
Celebrate Panamanian Independence Day on Sun, Nov 28.
Celebrate Panamanian Separation Day, on Wed, Nov 3.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Sep 15 – Oct 15.
The 26th Panamanian Parade 2021 was live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 12pm. FREE 🇵🇦
The New York Yankees celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a giveaway of Yankee caps with Hispanic flags for Yankee games on Fri-Wed, Sep 17-22, 2021. From $40. mlb.com
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The Neighboring Scenes film festival is at Lincoln Center Mar 31 – Apr 12, 2021. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇺🇬🇹🇬🇹🇲🇽🇵🇦🇵🇪
The Premio Lo Nuestro Awards are on Univision on Thu, Feb 18, 2021. 🇨🇴🇩🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇵🇷
The 11th Cinema Tropical Awards are online on Tue, Jan 19, 2021. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇬🇹🇲🇽🇵🇦🇵🇪🇺🇾🇻🇪
NYC’s Panamanian Community
The Panamanian community used to be centered in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, but is now spread out.
The Panamanian Consulate is in Midtown, Manhattan nyconsul.com
Panamanian Festivals in NYC
New York City’s big Panamanian festival is the Panamanian Parade and Festival on the first or second Saturday of October. It’s the biggest Panamanian parade outside of Panama. The Panamanian diaspora comes from all over the East Coast to join the parade and festivities.
NYC’s 2020 Panamanian Parade is Livestreaming
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn: Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 6pm 🇵🇦
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Panamanian New York City
Michelle’s Cocktail Lounge in Flatbush, Brooklyn is a popular Panamanian community bar.
Panamanian Consulate NYC
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MIDTOWN, NYC
Little Panama
New York City’s “Little Panama” used to be on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Today it is spread out across Flatbush, Crown Heights, Carnarsie, Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill.
Cafe con Libros bookstore in Crown Heights is Panamanian. cafeconlibrosbk.com
Panamanian New Yorkers
Salsa singer-songwriter Rubén Blades is the most famous Panamanian New Yorker. He was a lawyer before he came to New York. Rubén rides the subway and he’s really cool. If you think, OMG, is that Rubén Blades? It probably is.
Blades played an important role in the development of salsa dura (hard salsa) in 1970s New York. He made many famous hits and is still making great music and winning Grammy Awards.
Panamanian Culture
Panama has its own unique blend of Indigenous, Hispanic and African people and culture.
Today Panama has West Indian culture blended in. Jamaican workers helped finish the Panama Canal. Was this the beginning of reggaeton?
Reggaeton started as pregones (selling songs) on freelance buses in poor neighborhoods of Panama City. Panamanians brought this early form of reggaeton to New York City where it jumped to Puerto Rico and developed before spreading to Colombia and around the world. It’s the popular music of today’s youth around the world.
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Panamanian Polleras
The woman wears a Panamanian pollera with a beautiful crown. Polleras are based on Spanish Andalusían peasant dress from the Colonial Era. Today they are a folk costume.
Polleras are worn in many Hispanic countries, but Panamanians have their own style of Panamanian pollera. They are some of the most beautiful polleras in the world.
The man wears a sombrero campesino, a farmer’s hat. The patterns in the hat may represent a particular town or region.
Visit Panama
North and South America meet in Panama, and so do the Atlantic and Pacific. The Panama Canal joins the oceans. The Darién Gap is a roadless forest that joins the Americas.
The country offers a rich combination of modern city, pretty colonial towns, rainforests and beaches. Hispanic culture is strong in Azuero and Coclé. African cultural traditions continue in the Caribbean city Colón.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo
- Darien National Park
- Talamanca Range – La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
- Panamá Viejo
- Coiba National Park and It’s Special Zone of Marine Protection
Celebrate Panama Separation Day!
Thursday, November 3, 2022
LITTLE PANAMA
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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Celebrate Panamanian Independence Day!
Monday, November 28, 2022
LITTLE PANAMA
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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Panama ends its 2018 World Cup Group G against Tunisia
Belgium: LOSS 3 – 0;
England: LOSS 6 – 1;
Tunisia: LOSS 1 – 2;
Thursday, June 28, 2018
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