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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 […]

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. […]

Manhattan’s West Village is a quiet, residential neighborhood with a strong LGBTQ+ community. It’s most beautiful when the Callery pear trees bloom with white flowers in late March or early April. Hudson River Park runs along the river. The IFC Center movie theater is where the Rocky Horror Picture Show became a pop culture phenomena […]

“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

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 […]

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 […]

New York Rumba is the root of much of what we call “Latin Music” today. Rumba means “party.” It is an Afro-Cuban drum, song and dance tradition that is one step removed from the sacred traditions of the African Diaspora and Mother Africa. It’s how the community gathers to express family, faith, community and love. […]

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 […]

Timba in NYC is Cuban dance music that came off the streets of Havana in the 1970s. In Cuba, Son evolved into Timba. In NYC, it evolved into Salsa. They are different branches of the same root. Timba adds Funk, Rock, Jazz, and another round of Afro-Cuban percussion influences. It has more bass drum, and […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Spanish flamenco dance

Greenwich Village is a bohemian neighborhood, with a beatnik past, that is filled with students from New York University (NYU). It is one of Manhattan’s liveliest neighborhoods. The small streets are filled with restaurants, bars and boutiques. As the home of New York University (NYU), The Village is full of students. 14th StWest Side Hwy […]

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