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
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