Notable Puerto Ricans Who Migrated To New York
- Alvarez, Aida - former Small Business Administrator
- Belen, Ivonne - movie director
- Badillo, Herman - first Puerto Rican to serve in Congress
- Braschi, Giannina - novelist and essayist
- Judge Cabranes, Jose A. - U.S. Circuit Judge
- Camacho Sr., Hector - boxer
- Casals Istomin, Marta - musician
- Collazo, Oscar - Puerto Rican Nationalist
- Colon, Jesus - writer
- Colon, Miriam - actress
- Rev. Cruz, Nicky - minister
- de Burgos, Julia - poet
- Denis, Nelson Antonio - New York State Assemblyman; movie director
- Estavillo, Nicholas - the first Hispanic to become a three-star Chief in NYPD?
- Falcon. Angelo - political scientist
- Ferrer, Jose - actor
- Garcia Rivera Sr., Oscar - first Puerto Rican to hold public office in the mainland USA.
- Gonzalez, Isabel - paved the way for the Jones-Shafroth Act which conferred United States citizenship on all citizens of Puerto Rico.
- Holly, Maria Elena - widow of "rock n roll" pioneer Buddy Holly
- Labarthe, Pedro J. - poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist
- Lebron, Lolita - Puerto Rican Nationalist
- Mendez, Olga A. - New York State Senator
- Moreno, Rita - actress
- Negroni, Joe - member of "The Teenagers"
- Ortiz, Carlos - boxer
- Powell IV, Adam Clayton - N.Y. State Assembly member
- Santiago, Herman - composer of "Why do Fools Fall in Love"
- Schomburg, Arturo Alfonso - considered by many as the "Father of Black History".
- Torres, Jose - boxer
- Velazquez, Nydia - Congresswoman
Read more about this topic: Puerto Rican Migration To New York
Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or york:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)