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NYC Off-Broadway Week Fall 2023 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Select Latin Shows

NYC Off-Broadway Week Fall 2023 is a popular 2-for-1 ticket promotion to select Off-Broadway shows. New York is famous for Broadway theatre, but a lot of the action, especially Latin theatre, is Off-Broadway. Latin Theatre in NYC Off-Broadway Week Fall 2023 NYC Off-Broadway Week Fall 2023 offers 2-for-1 tickets to Dominican, Mexican and Uruguayan Off-Broadway theatre. On … [Read more...] about NYC Off-Broadway Week Fall 2023 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Select Latin Shows

The Cinco de Mayo Parade NYC 2023 is on Central Park West

The Cinco de Mayo Parade NYC 2023 is New York's big Cinco de Mayo celebration. Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. It's a celebration of the Mexican victory over "superior" French forces in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It's the big American festival of Mexican American culture. In Mexico, it's really only celebrated in Puebla, but Poblanos are one of New York … [Read more...] about The Cinco de Mayo Parade NYC 2023 is on Central Park West

Il Divo Brings French & Spanish Pop Opera to the Beacon Theatre

Il Divo is a crossover pop opera quartet with French, Swiss, and American tenors, and a special guest Mexican baritone. 🇫🇷🇲🇽 Il Divo Il Divo is Swiss tenor Urs Buhler, French tenor Sebastien Izambard, American tenor David Miller with special guest, Mexican baritone Steven Labrie. Carlos Marín, the original Spanish baritone died of Covid in 2021. They were discovered in … [Read more...] about Il Divo Brings French & Spanish Pop Opera to the Beacon Theatre

Shearith Israel is the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue

Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, is America's first Jewish congregation. Twenty-three Sephardic Jews (Spanish & Portuguese) fleeing the Spanish Inquisition in Recife, Brazil arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) in September 1654. They were not welcomed, but stood up for the right to live here. They won permission and thereby made New York an open … [Read more...] about Shearith Israel is the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue

Zara

Zara is an on-trend Spanish ready-to-wear retailer known for moving fashion from runway to rack in a matter of weeks. Zara is the lead brand of the world's largest fashion retailer, Inditex of Galicia, Spain. Owner Amancio Ortega is the wealthiest European and one of the handful of richest people in the world. It's interesting that this is Galicia which was once considered a … [Read more...] about Zara

Celebrate Mexican Culture at the 2019 Cinco de Mayo Parade

The NYC Cinco de Mayo Parade marches down Central Park West from 106th St to 97th St on Sunday, May 5, 2019 from 12-3pm. It's cancelled due to rain. See you next year! Cinco de Mayo Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican victory over superior French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It is not Mexican independence day. In Mexico, Cinco de Mayo is only celebrated in the … [Read more...] about Celebrate Mexican Culture at the 2019 Cinco de Mayo Parade

West-Park Presbyterian Church

West-Park Presbyterian Church is a Romanesque Revival church on Manhattan's Upper West Side that is the home of Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca. About West-Park Presbyterian Church The congregation was founded in 1852 on 84th Street. It became Park Presbyterian in 1887. It became West-Park Presbyterian when West Presbyterian Church merged with it. The current church was … [Read more...] about West-Park Presbyterian Church