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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 […]

Guatemalan NYC is a growing community centered in Bensonhurst and Bath Beach, Brooklyn. Guatemala is Indigenous Maya country. Spanish colonizers controlled Central America from Guatemala City. Guatemalan NYC News January 2023 The 32nd New York Jewish Film Festival 2023, coproduced with the Jewish Museum, screens 29 Jewish films from around the world; at Film at […]

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 […]

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 […]

Flushing, Queens is a mostly Asian neighborhood. It has one of New York City’s biggest Chinatowns, and one of the oldest Little Indias. It has Hispanic communities too. Without the parking signs, it may be hard to guess that this is New York City. Isn’t it great? Cultural Venues in Flushing Latin Culture in Flushing, […]

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 […]

Costa Rican NYC is a mix of Indigenous, Spanish and African cultures. ¡Vamos Ticos! Indigenous Mesoamerican and Andean cultures overlapped in Costa Rica. Spanish colonizers enslaved Indigenous and African peoples from 1522 to 1821. Human slavery was abolished in 1823. Most of today’s Afro-Costa Ricans are a Jamaican diaspora. Costa Rican NYC News September 2022 […]

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, […]

Uruguayan NYC is a small community based in Jackson Heights, Queens and Elizabeth, New Jersey. The community center is the Uruguayan restaurants on 37th Avenue between 84th & 86th St in Jackson Heights. Uruguayan NYC News January 2023 The Annette A Aguilar Trio, featuring Uruguayan guitar hero Bele Beledo, plays late night jazz on New Year’s […]

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 […]

Hudson Square, sometimes called West SoHo, is a small neighborhood with warehouses along the Hudson River, the Holland Tunnel entrance to New Jersey, many media businesses and the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District of Federalist and Greek Revival row houses. Clarkson St / West Houston StHudson River | Hudson Square | Sixth AvenueCanal St Latin Culture in […]

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 […]

Washington Heights is a residential neighborhood around the I-95 crossing in Upper Manhattan. It is NYC’s Little Dominican Republic. Sub-neighborhoods include Hudson Heights and Fort George. Washington Heights News November 2022 The 11th Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 is at the United Palace and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, Cinépolis Chelsea, and […]

Cinépolis Chelsea is a popular independent movie theater in Chelsea, Manhattan. It is owned by leading Mexican theater chain Cinépolis. “Cinépolis” is Spanish for “cinema city.” Latin Culture at Cinépolis Chelsea November 2022 The 11th Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 is at the United Palace and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, Cinépolis […]

Astoria, Queens is the northwest corner of Queens, across the East River from Manhattan. It’s the home of the Museum of the Moving Image, Noguchi Museum, and Socrates Sculpture Park. Ditmars Blvd | Astoria BlvdEast River | Astoria | 49th St36th Ave The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (Triborough) and Hell Gate Bridge leap across the […]

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in Astoria, Queens is NYC’s museum of film, television, video games, and digital culture. MoMI screens films daily. The collection holds over 130,000 objects. Educational programs serve around 70,000 students every year. The museum is on the site of the historic 1920 Astoria Studios, now Kaufman Astoria Studios. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

IFC Center is a five-screen, state-of-the-art, independent movie theater in Manhattan’s West Village. It is the AMC Networks cinema. The former Waverly Theater popularized the Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1976. The Year at IFC Center The Former Waverly Theater Today, IFC Center launches independent films that feed into the Independent Film Channel. It also […]

Things to Do in NYC in October 2022 include the end of Hispanic Heritage Month with Indigenous Peoples Day and Italian Heritage Day. Sat, October 1 NYC vs Orlando is Major League Soccer at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx on Sat, Oct 1 at 7pm. From $40. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇬🇭🇪🇹🇲🇽🇵🇪🇷🇴🇺🇾

“In the Heights” is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning Broadway play about three days at bodega (corner store) in the Dominican barrio of Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan. It’s also Jon M. Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians) 2021 film adaptation which opened the Tribeca Film Festival all over New York City. How cool is it that an American […]