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By 1953, Puerto Rican migration to New York reached its peak when 75,000 people left the island. [11] Ricky Martin at the annual Puerto Rican parade in New York City. Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century engineered by Teodoro ...
Herman Badillo (/ b ɑː ˈ d iː j oʊ / bah-DEE-yoh, [1] Spanish:; August 21, 1929 – December 3, 2014) [2] was an American lawyer and politician who served as borough president of The Bronx and United States Representative, and ran for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Puerto Rican elected to these posts, and the first Puerto Rican ...
A wave of domestic migration from Puerto Rico to New York City came after World War II. Nearly 40,000 Puerto Ricans settled in New York City in 1946, and 58,500 in 1952–53. Many soldiers who returned after World War II made use of the GI Bill and went to college. Puerto Rican women confronted economic exploitation, discrimination, racism, and ...
The Nuyorican Poets Café in Alphabet City, Manhattan. Nuyorican is a portmanteau word blending "New York" (or "Nueva York" in Spanish) and "Puerto Rican," referring to Puerto Ricans located in or around New York City, their culture, or their descendants (especially those raised or currently living in the New York metropolitan area).
In 2006 New York City's Dominican population decreased for the first time since the 1980s, dropping by 1.3% from 609,885 in 2006 to 602,093 in 2007. Dominicans are the city's fifth-largest ancestry group (behind Irish, Italian, German and Puerto Rican) and, in 2009, it was estimated that they compromised 24.9% of New York City's Latino population.
In 1956, Garcia Rivera became the first Puerto Rican to be nominated as the Republican candidate for Justice of the City Court. Garcia Rivera was an active member of the legal community and served as President and Board Member of the Puerto Rican Bar Association of New York. [3] Garcia Rivera and his wife later moved back to Puerto Rico.
Gilberto "Gilbert" Ramirez (c. 1957): [48] [49] First blind and Puerto Rican male (a lawyer) elected to the New York State Assembly (1965) Herman Badillo: [84] First Puerto Rican male (a lawyer) elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1971)
Belpré became the first Puerto Rican to be hired by the New York Public Library (NYPL). [1] In 1925 she began her formal studies in the Library School of the New York Public Library. [3] In 1929, due to the increasing numbers of Puerto Ricans settling in southwest Harlem, Belpré was transferred to a branch of the NYPL at 115th Street.