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Cubans in Manhattan: Northerners
The Cuban New Yorker blog celebrates its first anniversary this week by returning to the topic of that first posting on June 11, 2012: the numbers. In “How Many Cuban New Yorkers?” I presented the res… more →
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Cubans in Manhattan: Northerners
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wrote 6 days ago: The Cuban New Yorker blog celebrates its first anniversary this week by returning to the topic of th … more →
An Alternative (Cuban) Tour of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery
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wrote 1 month ago: Last week the Museum of the City of New York inaugurated an exhibit on the storied Green-Wood Cemete … more →
May 11, 1873: A Death in Cuba and a New York Family
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wrote 1 month ago: One hundred and forty years ago today in the Jimaguayú savanna, Camagüey, a bullet pierced the skull … more →
Havana in the 1950s: “If You See Something, Say Something”
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wrote 1 month ago: “If you see something, say something. If you see a suspicious package or activity on an MTA train or … more →
Breakfast in Union City
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wrote 2 months ago: It’s been a long winter, intruding on Spring. And the semester has been more than busy. So Liza and … more →
A Nochebuena Tradition, Revisited
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wrote 5 months ago: Tonight is nochebuena. I would like to share with the readers of cubanewyorker an essay I wrote abo … more →
José Martí on Another New York Storm
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wrote 7 months ago: Sandy has humbled New York. As we reflect on what has happened to this great city, Cuban New Yorker … more →
Havana in Williamsburg
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wrote 8 months ago: Manhattanites have traditionally regarded the “outer boroughs” in the same condescending way habaner … more →
The First Cuban New Yorker: The Case for Félix Varela y Morales
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wrote 9 months ago: As we already know from previous blogs on the search for the first Cuban New Yorker, Fr. Félix Varel … more →
A Certified Genius at the Drums
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wrote 10 months ago: Many years ago during a weekend trip to Miami from Gainesville, Florida, where I had just started gr … more →
Observations from a Post-Ideology Miami
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wrote 10 months ago: I have been observing Miami, especially the Cuban community, most of my life, sometimes as a residen … more →
The Fritas Magician: Cuban New Yorker Visits Miami
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wrote 10 months ago: We love it, we hate it, but it is hard to ignore it. For the 1.78 million Cuban Americans, Miami is … more →
Rumba, Race, and Identity in Central Park
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wrote 11 months ago: I heard it as soon as we headed west from the Bethesda Fountain. There was no mistaking its origins: … more →
Who Was the First Cuban New Yorker? The Case for Cristóbal Mádan
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wrote 11 months ago: Cristóbal Mádan y Mádan meets the criteria I set out in my June 21st blog post for identifying the f … more →
The Simple Pleasures of a Chino-Cubano Restaurant
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wrote 11 months ago: During my high school years in Miami one of my favorite things to do was to take a public bus from H … more →
“Burned” Cuban Agent Moves From Miami to the Big Apple
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wrote 11 months ago: Dr. Lisandro Pérez, formerly a Sociology professor at Florida International University (FIU), has mo … more →
Yosvany Terry and Manuel Valera at Drom
wrote 11 months ago: Back at Drom for another session of Cuban jazz. The saxophonist Yosvany Terry joined the pianist Man … more →
McCarthyism and Castroism: A Case Study
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wrote 1 year ago: By Miguel Fernandez Soon after Professor Carlos Alvarez (Florida International University- FIU) and … more →
