The 20-block festival was a lead-up to the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, which will be held along Fifth Avenue on Sunday.

The 40th annual 116th Street Festival celebrates Puerto Rican culture in East Harlem with music, food, and arts.

More than 500,000 people will descend upon East Harlem on Saturday for the 40th anniversary of the 116th Street Festival, ...

East Harlem’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at Hunter College currently features two important new exhibitions.

New York’s Very Own PIX11 News, in association with 21 Events, is proud to present exclusive coverage of the 122nd Street ...

He helped make sure that local accomplishments were memorialized forever in the Congressional Record, another victory over an ...

A pioneering visual artist whose 50-year practice balanced exuberant spontaneity with measured precision, Bechara spent most of his life residing and working in New York. He was widely recognized ...

A blend of ‘New York’ and ‘Puerto Rican,’ the term refers to Puerto Ricans born or raised in the city. In neighborhoods like El Barrio (East Harlem) and the South Bronx, they shared deep cultural ties ...

A view of an installation at Metropolitan Hospital Center in East Harlem ... a Puerto Rican activist group inspired by the Black Panthers and once branded as “militant” by The New York Times.

NEW YORK — Hispanic heritage is celebrated every day in East Harlem, where Fania Records started six decades ago. The Latin music label is still spreading the spirit of the neighborhood to the ...

Manny Vega, “Bomba Celestial” (2009–10) (image courtesy the Museum of the City of New York ... in Puerto Rican and Latinx communities, telling the stories of his very own “El Barrio ...

This potential for life sciences — roughly defined as any science that pertains to living organisms — reflects both the revitalization of Harlem and the industry’s growing New York City ...