Hispanic and Latino New Yorkers are residents of the state of
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
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who are of
Hispanic or Latino ancestry. As of 2013, Hispanics and Latinos of any race were 18.4% of the state's population. The Hispanic and Latino population is especially large in New York City, where the 2.49 million Hispanics (as defined by the U.S. Census) make up 28.3% of the city's population, the second-largest population group second only to non-Hispanic whites at 30.9.%.
History
The first Hispanic presence in New York may have been that of the Portuguese explorer's troops
Estêvão Gomes, who served the
Castilian Crown
The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accessi ...
. In 1524 Gomes may have entered
New York Harbor
New York Harbor is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay near the East River tidal estuary, and then into the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the United States. It is one of the largest natural harbors in t ...
and seen the
Hudson River. The first Hispanic to emigrate to the modern-day New York was the
Dominican Juan Rodriguez. He was a member of the crew of the Dutch ship Jonge Tobias, which reached New York City in 1613, and he lived there for a while, being the first non-Native American to reside in the region. Another early settler with Hispanic and Moorish, as well as Dutch, roots was
Anthony Janszoon van Salee
Anthony Janszoon van Salee (1607–1676) was an original settler of and prominent landholder, merchant, and creditor in New Netherland. Van Salee is believed to be the son of Jan Janszoon (Jan Jansen), a Dutch pirate who after 1619 served a Mooris ...
.
Puerto Rican migration to New York began in the 19th century and became the largest Hispanic group to migrate to the state. This migration increased in 1917 with the enactment of the
Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted U.S. citizenship to all Puerto Ricans,
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, U.S. Library of Congress, accessed May 25, 2010. and especially in the 1940s and 1950s.
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, Maura Isabel Toro-Morn, Marixsa Alicea, Migration and Immigration: A Global View.
Hispanic or Latino by national origin
By region
The New York City borough of the
Bronx is majority Hispanic.
The first Hispanic Borough President of the Bronx was
Herman Badillo in the 1960s.
The city of
Haverstraw is the most-Hispanic or Latino city in New York, with 67% of the population identifying as Hispanic or Latino.
See also
*
Nuyorican
*
Dominicans in New York City
References
External links
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