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El Centro, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies or Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, is a university-based research institute whose mission is to produce, facilitate, and disseminate interdisciplinary research about the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. and to collect, preserve, and provide access to archival and library resources documenting the history and culture of Puerto Ricans.
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).
There is also the National Puerto Rican Coalition in Washington, D.C., the National Puerto Rican Forum, the Puerto Rican Family Institute, Boricua College, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies of the City University of New York at Hunter College, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women and ...
According to the 2010 Census, Puerto Ricans represented 8.9% of the population of New York City (32% of the city's Hispanic community) and 5.5% of that of New York State. [5] The Puerto Rican share of New York City decreased to 6.7% by 2020 as Puerto Ricans left the city and new arrivals from the island increasingly went to other destinations.
In 1970, Pantoja created the Puerto Rican Research and Resource Center in Washington, D.C. Through the center, Pantoja co-founded and became the president of the Universidad Boricua, which later evolved into Boricua College. [3] [4] In 1974 Victor G. Alicea was appointed president of the college and has remained in that role ever since.
Spanish Harlem in Manhattan, around 116th Street and Second Avenue, has a large community of Mexicans, which is still small compared to the area's predominant Puerto Rican population; [1] [2] Staten Island has a large Mexican community in the Port Richmond, West Brighton, and Tompkinsville areas.
Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55885-046-5; Flores, Juan. From Bomba to Hip-hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-231-11076-6; La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora.
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.