Panamanian NYC used to be centered in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. It is spread out now. The Panamanian Consulate is in Midtown, Manhattan nyconsul.com 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 […]
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New York Dominican NYC
New York Dominicans are one of the Latin communities defining New York today. New York City has been Dominican since the first immigrant, Juan Rodríguez, arrived in 1613. He set up New York’s first bodega (colmado or store), in the Financial District where the National Museum of the American Indian is now. We have been […]
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 […]
Bolivian NYC
Bolivian NYC is centered in Queens and Paterson, New Jersey. Bolivia has Andes and Amazon regions. It was part of the Inca Empire. Spanish colonizers stole the Bolivian silver mountain at Potosí. Bolivians speak Spanish, Quechua, Aymara and other Indigenous languages. Indigenous culture remains strong. Indigenous colonial Mestizo Baroque art is quite beautiful. There is […]
Filipino NYC
Filipino NYC is a small, vibrant community that is strong in health care. NYC’s main “Little Manila” is a five-block stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. There are communities around the Philippine Consulate in Midtown, around the hospitals in the East Village, and in Jersey City, New Jersey. We don’t consider ourselves Latin, but […]
Ecuadorian NYC
Ecuadorian NYC is one of The City’s five largest Latin communities. The community is centered in Corona and Jackson Heights, Queens, but is also in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Fordham, The Bronx; and East Newark, New Jersey. We are a mix of Indigenous Kichwa (Quechua) and Shuar, Spanish, and African. Ecuadorian American Cultural Center is in Astoria, […]
Things To Do in NYC in December 2022
Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve
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Honduran NYC
Honduran NYC is mostly in the West Bronx, Central Islip Long Island, and New Jersey. The Honduran Consulate is in Manhattan’s Garment District. There is a vibrant Garifuna community in Crotona, The Bronx. December 2022 The Mini-Global Mashup: Garifuna Meets Flamenco brings together jazz vocalist Lucy Blanco (Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble), jazz bassist Hilliard Greene, and […]
Things To Do in NYC in October 2022
Panamanian Parade, Hispanic Day Parade, Indigenous Peoples Day Parade, Italian Day Parade, Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, Village Halloween Parade and the Jackson Heights Children’s Halloween Parade
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Things To Do in NYC in September 2022
New York Carnival, Brazilian Day, J’ouvert, Mid-Autumn Festival, Feast of San Gennaro, Hispanic Heritage Month
ART Armory Week, Affordable Art Fair
DANCE NY City Ballet, Fall for Dance
FASHION Fashion Week, FDLA
FILM NY Latino Film Festival, NY Film Festival
INDEPENDENCE Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile
MUSIC Met Opera
PARADES West Indian, African American, Mexican
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Things to Do in NYC in August 2022
DANCE: BAAND Together & Battery Dance Festival
FESTIVALS: Afribembé, Arte Pa’ Mi Gente, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Harlem Week, Summer For the City, SummerStage, Summer Streets
FOOD: Creole Food Festival, NYC Restaurant Week
MUSIC: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
PARADES: Dominican & Ecuadorian
THEATRE: Shakespeare in the Park
SPORTS: US Open Tennis
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Summer For the City 2022 Brings NYC Together at Lincoln Center
May 14 – August 14, 2022
Dance, Film, Music, Words
Afrobeats, Brazilian Funk, Salsa, Voguing
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Things to Do in NYC in July 2022
4th of July, Colombian Parade, Peruvian Parade, Bastille Day, SummerStage, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Shakespeare in the Park, and NYC Restaurant Week
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Things to Do in NYC in June 2022
Things to do in NYC in June 2022 include SummerStage, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, NY Puerto Rico Week and the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade and NYC Pride Parade. June is NYC Pride Month. It’s also Caribbean Heritage Month and African-American Music Appreciation Month. June is a great month to visit because the […]
Pooja Uberoi Interview, the Queen of Bollywood Dance
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Things to do in NYC in September 2020
1-24 US Open Tennis (ESPN)
2 Corn Moon
3 Whitney Museum reopens
4-7 Labor Day Weekend
4 NY Carnival Brass Fest 🇹🇹
5 Morgan Library reopens
6 Roberto Clemente Day 🇵🇷
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7 Labor Day
7 NY Carnival Virtual Road 🇹🇹
7 Brazilian Independence 🇧🇷
9 American Museum of Natural History reopens
11 Remember 9/11
11-16 FDLA Fashion Designers of Latin America 🇩🇴
12 El Museo del Barrio reopens
12 Brooklyn Museum reopens
13-16 RUNWAY360 (NYFW) 🇨🇱 🇻🇪
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15-15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Independence of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua 🇨🇷 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇳🇮
16 Mexican Independence 🇲🇽
17 MoMA PS1 reopens
18 Chilean Independence 🇨🇱
18-28 High Holidays 🇮🇱
18-20 Rosh Hashanah 🇮🇱
19 Procession of San Gennaro 🇮🇹
20 African American Parade
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25-11 NY Film Festival
26 NY Carnival Panology 🇹🇹
27-28 Yom Kippur 🇮🇱
Things to do in NYC in August 2020
COVID-19
Large outdoor events cancelled to at least the end of September
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Open Streets : Open Restaurants (Fri-Sat)
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1 Pachamama (At home)
1 “Liquidus” Tabula Rasa Dance Theater (YouTube)
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6 Bolivian Independence
9 Dominican Parade (Virtual)
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10 Ecuadorian Independence
14 Shakespeare in the Park (TV)
14-16 Jazz Masters & All Stars Weekend (Virtual)
14-22 Battery Dance Festival (Virtual)
16 Dominican Restoration Day
16-23 Harlem Week (Virtual)
18 19th Amendment
23 Subway Series (TBS)
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19-20 Al-Hijra (school holiday)
21 Haitian Revolution
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25 Uruguayan Independence
28 Remember Emmett Till
28 “I Have a Dream”
29 Metropolitan Museum plans to open
30 MTV VMA Video Music Awards (TV)
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31-13 US Open Tennis (ESPN)
Things to do in NYC in July 2020
COVID-19
Large outdoor events cancelled to at least the end of September
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SummerStage (Virtual)
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4 U.S. Independence
5 Venezuelan Independence
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9 NYCFC soccer season start (TV)
9 Argentine Independence
11 New York Red Bulls soccer season start (TV)
11 Manhattanhenge
11-14 Bastille Day on 60th St (Virtual)
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13 Shakespeare in the Park (Virtual)
14 Bastille Day
16-26 Colombian Film Festival New York
17-20 Dance on Camera Film Festival (Virtual)
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20 Colombian Independence
23 Yankees & Mets baseball (TV)
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28 Peruvian Independence
30 Eid al-Adha
Things to do in NYC in February 2020
Black History Month
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Broadway Week
Off-Broadway Week
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3-12 New York Fashion Week
5-19 MoMA Doc Fortnight
8 VILLALOBOS BROTHERS
8-11 Westminster Dog Show
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14 Valentine’s Day
14 President’s Day Weekend
14 PISTOLERA
14 Neighboring Scenes Film Festival
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17 PRESIDENTS DAY
21 Carnival weekend
21-15 International Children’s Film Festival
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25 Mardi Gras
26 Ash Wednesday
26 ADAA Art Show
27 Dominican Independence Day
Things to do in NYC in January 2020
1 Haitian Independence
3-5 PBR Professional Bull Riders
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6 Three Kings Day Parade
9-18 Winter Jazzfest
10-14 APAP
12 globalFEST
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17 MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND
17-18 Black Comic Book Festival
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20 Martin Luther King holiday
24-2 Winter Antiques Show
25-1 Master Drawings
26 Grammys
Things to do in NYC in November 2019
Puerto Rican Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month
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1 Auction exhibitions open
1-5 TEFAF antiques fair
1 Day of the Holy Innocents|All Saints Day
2 Day of the Dead | All Souls Day
3 Panamanian Separation Day
3 New York City Marathon
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5 Election Day
6-15 DOC NYC
8-11 VETERANS DAY WEEKEND
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10-11 Impressionist & Modern auctions
11 Veterans Day Parade
12 Beaver Moon
12-16 Django Reinhardt Festival
13 Puerto Rican Film Festival
13-14 Contemporary Art auctions
14 Salon Art + Design fair
14 Latin Grammys
16 Latin American Art auction exhibition
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20-21 Latin American Art auction
21 Macy’s Holiday Windows
21 Beaujolais Nouveau Day
23 Puerto Rican Artisans Fair
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25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
27-1 THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
27 Thanksgiving Parade Balloon Inflation
28 Panamanian Independence Day
28 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
29 Black Friday
29 New York City Ballet ‘Nutcracker’
Things to do in NYC in October 2019
Hispanic Heritage Month
1-13 Fall for Dance Festival
2 Sandy e Junior
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7-13 Celebrate Mexico Now
8-9 Yom Kippur
11-14 COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND
11-13 New Yorker Festival
12 Panamanian Day Parade
12 Spain’s National Day
13 Hispanic Day Parade
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14 COLUMBUS DAY
14 Columbus Day Parade
14 Indigenous People’s Day
15 Hispanic Heritage Month ends
15 Casita Maria Gala
(19-20) ColombiaFest
20 Queens Bolivian Day Parade
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21 MoMA reopens
23 World Ballet Day
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31 Winter Village
31 Halloween Parade
Things to do in NYC in September 2019
1 Brazilian Day
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2 LABOR DAY
2 West Indian Day Parade
3-16 NYC Broadway Week
5 Socrates Annual
6-14 New York Fashion Week
7 New York City Labor Day Parade
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11 New York Philharmonic Opening Night ~ ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’
12 Jazz at Lincoln Center Season Opener
12 Crossing the Line festival
12-22 Feast of San Gennaro
15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran Independence Day
15 African American Day Parade
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16 Mexican Independence Day
17-30 UN General Assembly
17-13 New York City Ballet Fall Season
22 Queens Hispanic Day Parade
22 Peru to the World Expo
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23-6 NYC Off-Broadway Week
23 Met Opera Opening Night Gala ~ ‘Porgy and Bess’
27 New York Film Festival
29-1 Rosh Hashanah
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Things to do in NYC in August 2019
2-4 Carnaval del Barrio Street Fair
3 Summer Streets
4 Ecuadorian Parade
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10 Ecuadorian Independence Day
10 Eid al-Adha
10 Summer Streets
11 Dominican Day Parade
11 Battery Dance Festival
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12-18 New York Latino Film Festival
16 Dominican Restoration Day
17 Summer Streets
18 Ecuadorian Festival
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24-25 Afropunk
25 Uruguayan Independence Day
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26-8 US Open Tennis
29-2 NY Salsa Congress
30-2 LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Things to do in NYC in July 2019
JULY 2019
SummerStage
Midsummer Night Swing
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn
Shakespeare in the Park
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
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4 U.S. Independence Day
5 Venezuelan Independence Day
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9 Argentine Independence Day
9-13 LAMC Latin Alternative Music Conference
12 Colombian Flower Festival Gala
12-13 Afro-Latino Fest NYC
14 Colombian Flower Festival Parade
14 111th Street Salsa Street Fair
14 Latin Culture Carnival Bronx
14 Colombian Independence Pride Festival
14 Bastille Day NYC
14 Disability Pride NYC
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16-24 ‘Coriolanus’ Shakespeare in the Park
16-25 Jazz in July Festival
20 Colombian Independence Day
21-3 Brasil Summerfest
21 Junta Hispana Street Fair
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22-16 NYC Restaurant Week
23-28 Dominican Film Festival
24-11 Lincoln Center Out of Doors
25 Peruvian Parade Gala
28 Peruvian Parade
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Things to do in NYC in June 2019
JUNE 2019
Pride Month
SummerStage
American Ballet Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park
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1 Blue Note Jazz Festival
1 Central Park Tango
2 Celebrate Israel Parade
2 Drama Desk Awards
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3 CFDA Fashion Awards
3-5 NYFW Men’s Spring Summer 2020
4 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
7-7 FIFA Women’s World Cup
8 116th Street Festival
9 National Puerto Rican Day Parade
9 Tony Awards
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10 Portugal Day
11 Museum Mile Festival
11-16 NY Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks
13-20 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
14-7 Copa America
15-7 CONCACAF Gold Cup
16 Father’s Day
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22 Coney Island Mermaid Parade
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25-13 Midsummer Night Swing
30 NYC Pride March
Things to do in NYC in May 2019
1 May Day
1 Old Masters auction
2-5 Frieze New York
2-5 Art New York
2-5 Context New York
3-7 TEFAF New York Spring
5 CINCO DE MAYO
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12 MOTHER’S DAY
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13 Art of Africa, Oceania & the Americas auction
13-14 Impressionist & Modern Art auctions
13-6 American Ballet Theatre
15-16 Post-War & Contemporary Art auction
18 Dance Parade
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21 Shakespeare in the Park ~ Much Ado About Nothing
24-27 Memorial Day Weekend
24-26 Big Salsa Festival
25 152nd St Cultural Festival
27 MEMORIAL DAY
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28 Midsummer Night’s Dream
29-2 Limón Dance Company
30 New York African Film Festival
31-2 African Diaspora International Film Festival
Things to do in NYC in February 2019
Black History Month
1-3 Cinema Tropical film festival
5 Lunar New Year
6-10 Film Comment Selects
8-16 New York Fashion Week
9-12 Westminster Dog Show
11-24 Off-Broadway Week
14 Valentine’s Day, Carnival
18 Presidents Day
21-28 MoMA Doc Fortnight
22-17 Int’l Children’s Film Festival
22-26 Neighboring Scenes film festival
28-3 ADAA Art Show
28-10 Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Things to do in NYC in December 2018
Holiday windows, shopping, Santa, Rockettes Christmas Spectacular, NYCB Nutcracker, Alvin Ailey, Ballet Hispánico, Calpulli Navidad, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve
Brasil Summerfest 2017
Central Park Summerstage, Nublu, NaturaBrasil, Brooklyn Public Library, The Archway, David Rubenstein Atrium, Joe’s Pub, Museum of the Moving Image, The Django, Hester St
Manhattan & Brooklyn
August 5 – 13, 2017