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LUNCH AT THE BILTMORE.
In the autumn of 1959, my father and I were quite a pair: at forty-six, he was recovering from his first heart attack, and I, at the age of eight, after having contracted a near-fatal kidney disease during a journey I'd made to Cuba with my mother, a few years earlier, was still being carefully watched over, particularly when it came to what I could eat. During that trip, perhaps on my aunt Maria's farm, in Oriente, I had ingested something--a piece of undercooked suckling pig (lechon) or a sip of contaminated water--that had left me passing blood and bloated with edema. Back in New York, at St. Luke's Hospital, I was given a diagnosis of nephritis and packed off to a ...
- Representatives of Univision, Hallmark and the New York Puerto Rican community...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 18, 1990 700+ words
...UNIVISION, HALLMARK AND THE NEW YORK PUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY MEET TO DISCUSS...Hallmark Cards, Inc. and the New York Puerto Rican community met today at Univision...Univision and representatives of New York's Puerto Rican community, in an ...
- New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislators March Against
- Newspaper article from: New York Beacon, The Robert Elkin March 24, 1995 700+ words
...Elkin New York Beacon, The 03-24-1995 New York State Black And Puerto Rican Legislators March Against Pataki's. Cuts The New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus lead a coalition of thousands...
- My Music Is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities,...
- Magazine article from: Notes Averill, Gage September 1, 1996 700+ words
...the role of music in the Puerto Rican ethnic experience in New York City. While chronicling...remain little known outside Puerto Rican circles, Glasser provides...The production of Puerto Rican music in New York was inextricably bound...
- New York Mayor Rips Property Owners' Barricades at Puerto Rican Day Parade.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 14, 2004 700+ words
Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News...and chain-link fencing before the Puerto Rican Day Parade. "I think it's a disgrace...NYDailyNews.com (c) 2004, Daily News, New York. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune...
- -US HUD: Cuomo debriefs Puerto Rican community leaders in New York on Federal...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 30, 1998 700+ words
...today debriefed leaders of New York City's Puerto Rican community who were eager...requested of leaders of New York's Puerto Rican community, heads of charitable...of these hard times, New York's Puerto Rican community has responded...
- Aeroflex to consolidate Puerto Rican operations into existing New York and New...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 3, 1995 700+ words
PLAINVIEW, New York--(BUSINESS WIRE...consolidating its Puerto Rican manufacturing operations...existing facilities in New York and New Jersey...electronics subsidiary in New York over the next six...associated with the Puerto Rican operations, the...
- Puerto Rican specialty store closes doors in New York City's Harlem district.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News November 28, 2004 700+ words
Daily News, New York Knight Ridder...specializing in Puerto Rican goods has closed...Calderon, 57, a Puerto Rican who is president...He thinks other Puerto Rican-owned businesses...what the rest of New York is doing -- going...
- In other news, Felix Juan Serralles, Jr. made headlines as well when he served...
- Magazine article from: Latino Leaders Miller, Corina September 1, 2007 700+ words
...headlines as well when he served as the grand marshal of the 50th edition of the Puerto Rican National Parade in New York. Serralles is a well-known icon of the Puerto Rican community. He has served as the president and CEO of the Serralles Distillery...
