Bacalaitos & Fireworks

Download or read book Bacalaitos & Fireworks written by Arlene Gottfried and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York is famed for its Puerto Rican population, developed through migration beginning in the 1900s and booming in the 1950s. As Puerto Ricans settled in New York over the years, they have the city with their infectious culture, indelibly altering neighbourhoods such as the Bronx, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg and Brooklyn with their rhythm, style, flavour, art, language and Latin cuisine. A native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Gottfried presents an ode to Nuyorican life and style, from the 1970s to the present, shot with an unfailingly lyrical eye.