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Dance Parade 2025 is Once Again About Reclaiming the Freedom to Be Yourself

Dance Parade NYC (RightFramePhotovideo/Dreamstime)

SIXTH AVE, 8TH ST, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Manhattan
🇺🇸 🇦🇴 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 🇰🇷 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇾 🇵🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇸 🇹🇼 🇹🇭 🇹🇹

Mega Mezcla 2025 Alex Sensation Features Anuel AA, Sech. Kapo, Beele, De La Ghetto, Ken-Y, Fariana, Jey One, Crazy Design, Vakero, with a special presentation by Elvis Crespo

Mega Mezcla (Val_th/Dreamstime)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey, reggaeton, latin trap, merengue, dembow 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇷

Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, One of New York’s Most Popular Latin Dance Parties, is Now at Fifth&Mad in Murray Hill

Latin Mondays at Taj (Jules Helm/Talia Castro Pozo)

5th&Mad, Murray Hill, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

New York Mets 2025 Roster is OMG!

New York Mets (Jerry Coli/Dreamstime)

CITI FIELD, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Fashion Designers of Latin America (FDLA) 2025 are the Latin Side of New York Fashion Week

Fashion Designers of Latin America ~ FDLA (Hrubaru/Dreamstime)

CANOE STUDIOS, Starrett-Lehigh Building, Chelsea, Manhattan
UNITED PALACE, Washington Heights, Manhattan
INNSiDE NEW YORK NOMAD, Chelsea, Manhattan
🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Three Kings Day in New York City 2025

Three Kings Day NYC (Iakov Filimonov/Dreamstime)

January 6 🇩🇴 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇺🇾 ~ 🇮🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

Mega Bash Alex Sensation Features Mega Bash Alex Sensation 2024 features Farruko, Nicky Jam, Vico C, Chimbala, La Insuperable and more Dembow, Reggaeton, and Trap

Mega Bash Alex Sensation (DisobeyArt/Adobe)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas,” Inspired the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Remember the Mirabal Sisters "Las Mariposas" (Diegobib/Adobe)

NOVEMBER 25, 1960 🇩🇴

Afro Dominicano Rocks New York With Their Dominican Haitian Merengue Méringue Caribbean Alternative Rock Fusion

Afro Dominicano (Bob Dea/Flushing Town Hall)

HOUSE OF YES, Bushwick, Brooklyn 🇩🇴
JOE’S PUB AT THE PUBLIC THEATER, NoHo, Manhattan 🇩🇴

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Latin Stars Include Dora the Explorer, Spider-Man, Natti Natasha, and Sebastián Yatra

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Dora the Explorer (Gary718/Dreamstime)

UPPER WEST SIDE, MIDTOWN, HERALD SQUARE 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇬🇧 🇻🇪

DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival Screens Films That Make You Think About What’s Going On All Around Us Right Now

DOC NYC (Guruxox/Dreamstime)

IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, VILLAGE EAST BY ANGELIKA, West Village, Chelsea, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇸🇩

New York Comedy Festival Makes America Laugh Again

New York Comedy Festival (Rido/Adobe)

IT’S ALL OVER Chelsea, Midtown, Times Square Theater District, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Manhattan
Flatbush, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Dominican Film Festival New York Gets to the Heart of What it Means to Be Quisqueyano

Dominican Film Festival New York (Valentin Valkov/Adobe)

UNITED PALACE, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇩🇴
QUAD CINEMA, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇩🇴
SYMPHONY SPACE, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇩🇴
AARON DAVIS HALL, City College, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇩🇴
ALIANZA DOMINICANA, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇩🇴

Flor de Toloache, New York’s Female Mariachi, Plays Live for a Screening of Disney’s Day of the Dead Movie “Coco”

Flor de Toloache (Carnegie Hall)

THE TOWN HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇲🇽 + 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇨🇺

New York Yankees World Series Games 3-5 at Yankee Stadium

New York Yankees, Bernie Sanders (Sports Images/Dreamstime)

YANKEE STADIUM, Concourse, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF) Fundraises for God’s Love We Deliver Out of Brooklyn This Year, Oy Vey

New York City Wine and Food Festival NYCWFF (coffmancmu/Adobe)

BROOKLYN
North 🇺🇸 🇨🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇦
Caribe 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇹🇹
South 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Africa 🇬🇭 🇪🇹 🇲🇦 🇿🇦
Asia 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇱🇧 🇯🇵 🇵🇭

Hispanic Day Parade NYC Desfile de la Hispanidad New York Celebrates the Culture of 20 Hispanic Countries on Fifth Avenue

Hispanic Day Parade NYC Desfile de la Hispanidad de New York (Shiningcolors/Dreamstime)

FIFTH AVENUE Midtown/Midtown East, Central Park/Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

New York Film Festival Screens the Year’s Most Anticipated Films at Lincoln Center and In The Boroughs

New York Film Festival (Alexander/Adobe)

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Cinema, Staten Island
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS, Concourse Village, The Bronx
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, Astoria, Queens

Belíe Belcán is the Dominican Loa of Justice

Belie Belcan (Photoeuphoria/Dreamstime)

SEPTEMBER 29 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Junta Hispana is a Hispanic Product Sample Fair with Family Entertainment

Junta Hispana (Juan Moyano/Dreamstime)

FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

Aventura and Romeo Santos Play One Last Round of Urban Bachata Together

Aventura with Romeo Santos in 2007 (Michael Bush/Dreamstime)

UBS ARENA, Belmont Park, Long Island 🇩🇴

Hispanic Heritage Month in New York City 2024

Hispanic Heritage Month in New York City (Skypixel/Dreamstime)

A meditation on what it means to be “Hispanic” in America today.

🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇶🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

New York Latino Film Festival Brings Latin Creatives and the Film Industry Together

New York Latino Film Festival (ViDi Studio/Adobe)

THE CENTER, West Village, Manhattan
MINETTA LANE THEATRE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
REGAL UNION SQUARE, Union Square, Manhattan
QUISQUEYA PLAZA, Inwood, Manhattan
🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 🇵🇷

Yasser Tejeda Plays a Bryant Park Picnic Performance with the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Yasser Tejeda Afro-Dominican Alternative (Harlem Stage)

BRYANT PARK, Garment District, Manhattan 🇩🇴

Queens Hispanic Parade 2024 Desfile Hispano de Queens

Queens Hispanic Parade (Kobby Dagan/Dreamstime)

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇶 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

José Alberto “El Canario” Plays the New York International Salsa Congress

José Alberto "El Canario" is a Dominican salsa superstar.

MARRIOTT MARQUIS, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan 🇩🇴

New York International Salsa Congress is NYC’s Labor Day Weekend Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival

New York International Salsa Congress (Burcu Akcakaya/Dreamstime)

NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS, Times Square Theater District, and offsite venues in Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

Dominican Restoration Day Commemorates “El Grito de Capotillo” That Launched the Dominican War of Restoration

Dominican Restoration Day, General Gregorio Luperón (Public Domain/Wikipedia)

August 16, 1863 🇩🇴

Yewá, the Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery, Dances with the Dead to Help Them Move On

Yewá in pink watches over the Old San Juan cemetery (Ajitha/Adobe)

AUGUST 11 🇧🇯 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

National Dominican Day Parade 2024 Celebrates Merengue

National Dominican Day Parade (Sergio Reyes/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

SIXTH AVENUE, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇴

Battery Dance Festival Connects the World Through Dance

Battery Dance Festival (Battery Dance Company)

ROCKEFELLER PARK, Battery Park City, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇱 🇳🇬 🇷🇴 🇰🇷 🇹🇼 🇻🇪

Bronx Dominican Parade es el Gran Parada Dominicana de el Bronx, Quisqueya

Bronx Dominican Parade (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

GRAND CONCOURSE, Concourse, Claremont, Mount Hope, The Bronx 🇩🇴

Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) Brings Alt Rock Fusions to NYC

Latin Alternative Music Conference, LAMC (Krakenimages/Adobe)

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, Times Square, Manhattan
DROM, East Village, Manhattan
CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan
SOBs, Hudson Square, Manhattan
🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪 🇻🇪

DJ Lobo Spins a Fourth of July Salsa Dance Party in Greenwich Village

DJ Lobo (the artist/City Parks Foundation)

GONZALEZ Y GONZALEZ, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇩🇴

Queens Dominican Day Parade Marches Through Jackson Heights

Queens Dominican Day Parade Diablo Cojuelo (Alkiona25/Dreamstime)

JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens 🇩🇴

New York Salsa Festival is a Night of Salsa Legends

New York Salsa Festival (EKH Pictures/Adobe)

BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

International Workers Day or Labor Day is a National Holiday in Much of the Latin World

International Workers Day (TMLsPhotoG/Adobe)

MAY 1 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

Bryant Park Dance Party 2024 Free Dance Lessons and Live Music for Dancing Salsa, R&B, Hustle, Bachata, Swing, and Motown

Bryant Park Dance Party (Angelito Jusay/Bryant Park)

BRYANT PARK, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series Screens at Teachers College, Columbia University

African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series ("Mali-Cuba" Edouard Salter, Richard Minier/ADIFF)

TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹

Summer for the City Brings the World to Lincoln Center with Free or Pay-What-You-Wish Concerts

Soundcake Sapphira Cristál & Monét X Change (Lawrence Sumulong/Lincoln Center)

LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇦🇺 🇧🇷 🇰🇾 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇮🇶 🇮🇹 🇨🇮 🇯🇲 🇯🇴 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇸🇩 🇹🇹 🇻🇪 🇿🇼

Damballa is the Vodou Loa of the Masculine Side of Nature

Damballa (Ondrej Prosicky/Dreamstime)

March 17 🇭🇹 🇩🇴

Whitney Biennial 2024 is Even Better Than the Real Thing

Whitney Biennial 2024 ~ AI image (Sebastian/Adobe)

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Meatpacking District, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹

Santo Domingo Carnival 2024 is the Climax of Dominican Carnival

Santo Domingo Carnival (Dlrz4114/Dreamstime)

SANTO DOMINGO, Malecon, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Dominican Yorks is a New York Dominican Art Exhibit in Conversation with the Collection at Hispanic Society

Dominican Yorks, MiNacimiento (Ma Naissance) detail, Reynaldo García Pantaleón, 2023 (Alfonso Lozano/Hispanic Society)

HISPANIC SOCIETY, Washington Heights, Manhattan

Dominican Independence Day, ¡Quisqueya!

Dominican Independence Day, Puerta del Conde, Santo Domingo (Matyas Rehak/Dreamstime)

PUERTA DEL CONDE, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ~ February 7, 1844 🇩🇴

Juan Pablo Duarte is the Founding Father of the Dominican Republic

Juan Pablo Duarte sculpture in Duarte Square, Hudson Square, Manhattan (Mark Zhu/Dreamstime)

JUAN PABLO DUARTE SQUARE, Hudson Square, Manhattan
ALTAR DE LA PATRIA, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Dominican Heritage Month New York is One Long Party

Dominican Heritage Month New York (Dlrz4114/Dreamstime)

NEW YORK STATE 🇩🇴

globalFEST is a World Music Showcase at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center

globalFEST (alexlmx/Adobe)

DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan ~ alternative, bomba, folk, R&B, rock, world music. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦

La Virgen de la Altagracia is the Patron Saint of the Dominican Republic

La Virgen de la Altagracia is the Patron Saint of the Dominican Republic (Jose Miguel Rodriguez de Carvalho/Wikimedia)

HIGÜEY, Dominican Republic ~ Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia. 🇩🇴

Ozuna in New York City

Ozuna (Billboard Music Awards)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

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