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Things To Do in NYC in November 2023
Things to do in NYC in November include: the Veterans Day Parade and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Celebrate Mexico Now cultural festival, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the fall art auctions. November is Native American Heritage Month, Puerto Rican Heritage Month, and Hip-Hop History Month. US national holidays in November include Veterans Day, Thanksgiving […]
Things To Do in NYC in September 2023
Things to do in NYC in September 2023 include: New York Carnival, J’ouvert, and the West Indian Day Parade; New York Fashion Week and Fashion Designers of Latin America; Feast of San Gennaro, African American Day Parade; and Mexican Day Parade. The September holiday is Labor Day on Monday, September 4, 2023. Hispanic Heritage Month […]
Bomba NYC
Bomba is a Puerto Rican drum, song, and dance tradition of the African Diaspora, but today it is a communal expression of family, faith, community, and love for all Puerto Ricans. Bomba rhythms mixed with Cuban son into salsa. In NYC, bomba is performed and taught by folkloric drum, song and dance groups such as […]
Black Arts Movement: Then & Now Conference
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Bárbara Martínez & ALBA Musik Fundraiser for DAWN, their new album, is a Celebration of Sevilla’s Feria de Abril
This great New York flamenco duo fundraises for their new album with a celebration of Sevilla’s Feria de Abril, the the flamenco heartland’s spring festival.
ATD Fourth World Movement
Lower East Side
Saturday, April 15, 2023
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Things To Do in NYC This Weekend: March 22-28, 2023
MANHATTAN: flamenco, theatre, classical music, mariachi, pop, jazz, salsa
THE BRONX: latin jazz, spoken word, bullerengue, bomba, regional mexican, classical music
BROOKLYN: house music
QUEENS: bachata, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, dem bow, trap, banda, jazz
Things To Do in NYC This Weekend March 15-21, 2023
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New York Now: Home, Parade Broadway 2023, Luzbel & LeProsy, Astoria Salsa Project, Flamenco Festival, St Patrick’s Day Parade, Rhythm, Bass and Place, Pimpinela, Victor Baro y Su Orquesta, Jeanette, Damas Gratis, NY Red Bulls, Rafael Riqueni, All Night Milonga, Grupo Ocho, Juan-Carlos Formell y Yambando, Grupo Super T, Benito Juarez
East Harlem “El Barrio”
“El Barrio” or “Spanish Harlem” is East Harlem, an iconic Latin neighborhood in Upper, Manhattan. It’s been mostly Puerto Rican, but also Dominican, Cuban, Mexican, Salvadoran and gentrifying. Harlem RiverFifth Avenue | East Harlem | Harlem River Drive96th St East Harlem’s big festivals are the El Museo Three Kings Day Parade, the National Puerto Rican […]
Things To Do in NYC in February 2023
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Ponce Carnival 2023 is Puerto Rico’s Carnival
Saturday-Tuesday, February 18-21, 2023
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Barranquilla Carnival 2023 is One of the World’s Great Carnivals
Saturday-Tuesday, February 18-21, 2023
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Mexican NYC
Mexican NYC News January 2023 The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater presents new voices, including Mexican folk singer Silvana Estrada’s beautiful “Marchita;” at Here in Hudson Square and other NYC venues; for one week Thursday, January 5-13, 2023. From $40. prototypefestival.org 🇲🇽 The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo […]
Lower East Side NYC
Lower East Side News January 2023 Sueño de Reyes – Dream of Kings; children’s theater that imagines the Three Kings arriving in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico instead of Bethlehem; is at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; Saturday-Sunday, December 10-11 & 17-18, 2022 at 3pm; Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 7pm; and Saturday-Sunday, January […]
New York Latin Jazz NYC
New York Latin Jazz is traditional in Harlem and Greenwich Village. Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance are New York’s leading jazz and Latin jazz institutions. Birdland and the Blue Note are famous jazz clubs. The Village Vanguard is NYC’s oldest. Minton’s is where bebop was born. Terraza 7 is Latin. […]
Indian NYC
Indian NYC is NYC’s second biggest immigrant community. New York has many Little Indias. Most Indians don’t consider ourselves to be Latin, but in the English-speaking Caribbean we are. After abolition, we came as indentured servants. That’s where that all that good Caribbean curry comes from. In Trinidad, Indian descent is the largest group, though […]
African American New York
“New York is a secret African city.” Robert Farris Thompson, American historian at Yale University Thompson’s statement is true. Once you learn to read the signs, you see the parallel universe of the African Diaspora, everywhere. To preserve our heritage culture, we hid it in plain sight. New York Latin Culture
Lunar New Year 2023 in New York, Year of the Rabbit
Sunday, January 22, 2023 –
Monday, February 6, 2023
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Chelsea NYC
Chelsea NYC News January 2023 The 7th American Dance Platform, is an African American dance showcase, curated by Ronald K. Brown; that features Les Ballet Afrik, B Moore Dance, and Waheedworks; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC; from January 10-15, 2023. 🇺🇸 The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo brings 35 of […]
Italian NYC
Today, Italian NYC is mostly in Throgs Neck & Morris Park The Bronx; Staten Island; and Harlem, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Italians are one of the communities that defines New York City and the United States. The big wave of immigration came between the 1850s and 1930s. Many Southern Italians came between 1880 and 1920. Italy […]
Nublu
Nublu is a music collective with a pair of East Village world Jazz clubs. It has spawned a label with a number of bands and its own unique Nublu sound. It is a late night club. Performances usually start around midnight. The open door policy is cool. If you don’t get in, the club is […]
Things To Do in NYC in January 2023
Three Kings Day, Martin Luther King Day
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Chinese NYC
Chinese NYC is the biggest population of Chinese descent outside of Asia. NYC has many Chinatowns now, but the original Manhattan Chinatown was formed by the workforce that built the western end of the Transcontinental Railroad (1863-1869). Chinese are Latin through the Caribbean. We were the first to understand what was done to the African […]
Chinatown Manhattan
New York Latin Asian, Chinese
Carnival 2023 is the World’s Biggest Latin Party
New York Latin festivals
Hell’s Kitchen NYC
Hell’s Kitchen NYC (also called Clinton or Midtown West) is an old residential neighborhood along Manhattan’s west side from 34th St to 59th St. Many young actors live here. It used to be a center of Irish power in New York City. Restaurant Row on 46th St is popular for pre-theatre dining because it is […]
Jewish NYC
Jewish NYC is one of the communities that defines New York City. We are the world’s largest Jewish community outside Israel. There are many Jewish communities in the Latin world. NYC’s first Jewish Community arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. It is now Congregation Shearith Israel, a Sephardic (Spanish & Portuguese) community. We made New […]
New York Urban Latin Music
Latin house, rap, reggaeton, rhythm & blues, trap
Juilliard School
Latin classical music, dance, theatre
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, […]
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 […]
Things To Do in NYC in December 2022
Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve
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New Year’s Eve NYC 2023
Saturday, December 31, 2022
Christmas in New York 2022
Sunday, December 25, 2022
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Little Island
New York Bomba
Bomba in NYC is a Puerto Rican drum, song, and dance tradition with African roots. The barille drum used to be made from old rum barrels. “Bomba” in Spanish means “pump.” We pump the barille. The Bomba dancer challenges the lead drummer to match their dance moves. Cuban Rumba Columbia plays a similar game. Women […]
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2022
Thursday, November 24, 2022
CENTRAL PARK WEST, CENTRAL PARK SOUTH, SIXTH AVE, 34TH ST
Upper West Side, Midtown, Herald Square
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Harlem
Harlem is NYC’s iconic African American neighborhood. It is famous for Jazz, Swing, Rhythm and Blues, Rap, great food and fun nights. 155th StHudson River | Harlem | Fifth AvenueCentral Park North (110th) A lot of history was made here. The Harlem Renaissance produced legendary artists in the 1920s and 30s. The Black Arts Movement […]
Things To Do in NYC in November 2022
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Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square is No More
2019 was the last
LINCOLN SQUARE
Manhattan
Day of the Dead NYC 2022 Día de los Muertos is a Three-Day Family Celebration of Life
OFRENDAS (Family Altars)
Monday, October 31, 2022
DÍA DE LOS INNOCENTES (Children’s Day)
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
DÍA DE MUERTOS (Day of the Dead)
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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Queens Museum of Art
The Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows Corona Park is the big art museum in Queens. The Panorama of the City of New York is a diorama of New York City. The world’s largest scale model was created for the 1964 World Fair and is periodically updated. queensmuseum.org The museum hosts community events focused […]
Hudson River Park
Hudson River Park transformed over four miles of decaying Manhattan riverfront, from Pier 25 to Pier 97, into a lovely public park with amenities including a promenade, ball fields, watersports and dining. hudsonriverpark.org @hudsonriverpark Tribeca Pier 25 (off N Moore St) is a 985 foot pier with a miniature golf course, sand volleyball courts, skatepark, […]
Union Square
Union Square is a residential/commercial district around Union Square Park. It was Manhattan’s entertainment district in the 1870s. 17th StFifth Ave | Union Square | Lexington14th St 14th Street is the dividing line between Midtown and Downtown, Manhattan. Latin culture in Union Square includes Zara Spanish fast fashion. The park is home of the popular […]
Tompkins Square Park
Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village is a bit of a counterculture park – like the neighborhood. It’s calmer now, but the park has been a protest site since the 1870s. There were Vietnam War protests in the 1960s. In the 1980s, the NYPD used extreme violence to clear a homeless encampment – and […]
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 Streets NYC 2022 is on Park Avenue
Saturday, August 6, 13 & 20, 2022
CENTRE ST, LAFAYETTE, PARK AVE
Financial District, Chinatown, NoHo, Union Square, Gramercy Park, Kips Bay, Murray Hill, Midtown East, Upper East Side, and “El Barrio” East Harlem
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico really is the island of enchantment. Famous for some of the world’s best beaches, the mountain heartland is even more beautiful. We are both contemporary and conservative. Old ways survive, especially in the mountains. The drum is alive in Puerto Rico. The island is so many things you never imagined. It is famously […]
Jarana Beat Does the Mexican Fandango at Terraza 7
Friday, May 13, 2022
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
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