Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
As one of the longest bridges in Puerto Rico, it measures 1.4 miles (2.3 km) in length. From Hato Rey and Rio Piedras, San Juan, the bridge serves as a direct entrance to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Isla Verde, Carolina. The bridge goes over Laguna San José (San Jose Lagoon). [6] The bridge was built with an investment of $126. ...
Martín Peña Bridge: 1939 2008-8-27 San Juan: Art Deco style bridge Mavilla Bridge: 1903, 1909 1995-07-19 Corozal: Segmented arch: Padre Íñigo Bridge: 1853 1995-07-19 Coamo: Brick barrel vault: Plata Bridge: 1908 1995-07-19 Naranjito
The first Puerto Rican owned music store in New York City, Almacenes Hernández was founded by Victoria Hernández and her brother Rafael Hernández at 1724 Madison Avenue in 1927. Almacenes Hernández was sold to record producer Luis Cuevas in 1939.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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 ...
Bernardo Vega was born in 1885 in Cayey, Puerto Rico.Cayey was a town known for tobacco, where tabaqueros, also known as cigar-makers, would work to grow it. [1] Vega was a tabaquero, which was, to the working class, an intellectual job because during their work someone would read to them. [2]
The month-long celebration will honor the Puerto Rican community’s contribution to New York state and other parts of the country. November will now be Puerto Rican Heritage…
The bridge dates to 1869 and it was named after the Marquis of Serna, Felix Maria de Messina, who was governor of Puerto Rico from 1862 to 1865. It is the first metal bridge to have been built in the island, and the only metal arch bridge that exists in Puerto Rico. The iron elements were brought from France.