Comments about puerto rican

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Lou Romero: The majority of Puerto Ricans are Catholic in tradition, so of course they gravitated to their local churches, as for education, that was their choice or discretion if the children were to attend the catholic......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

upfromflames: Yeah I appreciate your voice here too! Question for you: When Puerto Rican folks replaced Italians, did they tend to join the catholic congregations--i am thinking about St. Barbara's Cathedral and school, which i am writing......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

upfromflames: Yeah, trends are very general, so I don't want to stereotype at all. I meant poor relative to the earlier families. Thanks for correcting me on that one. I am a little blurry on the......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Lou Romero: Thanks UFF, your response was almost totally on the money, except for the "poor Puerto Rican families" part. Many PR families were hard-working and wanted a better living conditions as well as good schools, many who......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

upfromflames: Lou: It depends on what part of Bushwick you are talking about, as the process of demographic change proceeded differently in different part of the neighborhood. In ther southern side of Bushwick--south of Myrtle--the process......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

TRANS KOF 2008 : Hey all this talk about Paterson brings back alot of memories I grew up in Paterson on Main st. and Wiess St.a block from St.Josephs hospital. my neighborhood was known as little San Juan......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

colavitos ghost: there's a "joseph m. gallagher middle school" in my neighborhood that is home to a particularly humorous piece of partial signage. the last two letters of the first name have fallen, leaving the interesting......

in response to: El R Restau by Peter

platano: there not german lol one of them is puerto rican and the other 2 cocasion friends of mine ...

in response to: Graff and Regraff by CartLegger

CaptainVideo: What you are doing is no different that all white communities banning together to keep blacks from moving in because they are afraid that they will bring crime and lower property values. Humbolt is not......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

anon (WPIS-74-220-232-34.worldpath.net): yeh jacob your an idiot man. cope2-is like puerto rican, and JA is a white guy with a curly afro. he also plays a drug addict in one of the rocky movies. wierd i never heard of......

in response to: NYC Style Graffiti Throw Up by Metro1

Junito: If this discussion had taken place face to face the Kings and Folks would have shot at each other and hit another innocent victim. This is probably how Miquel died. Lets stop the violent comments......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Roger: I'm an artist who is not a hipster. I am moving further east in Bushwick because the rent is cheaper for what you can get, as I'm saddled in debt. I'm half Peruvian......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

corsakti: just to clear something up again; i was tryin to badmouth humboldt park and the puerto ricans who live there. As I grew up, we lived in a rented house there for years and were......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Xavi: Most of the eastern part of Humboldt Park until the mass Puerto Rican migration of the 1940's and '50's was Jewish and Polish, with some German and Italian elements. When those ethnic groups were......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Xavi: There are many stories of Puerto Rican families who are making a killing off of their homes by selling and moving to Florida, or back to Puerto Rico or wherever and they do so for......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Glad I moved : what about the puerto rican families who have been in the humboldt area for along time and the buildings they own have gone up dramtically in price. They are selling for the money and......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Madelyn: Wow! What an experience it has been reading all these posts about the neighborhood I grew up in! I also went to Enrico Fermi, remember Mr. Lily and played violin in the orchestra. I graduated......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

bushwick facts:: in the 60-70s all white italian and germans on irving side Puerto ricans were from other side of central it was like a border muslims locked down bushwick ave in the 70 -80s and prior......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

bed sty-cee!: hello chicago folks-well lets have a little history lesson non of you are spanish, spaniards or latin. all of those words,terms or descriptions belong to europeans, aka white people. all so called hispanics,......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

bed sty-cee!: born and raised in brooklyn--coney island was the boroughs(family getaway) i can't beleive that politician let it rot--but just like all of brooklyn, gentrification will take hold. so all you blacks and puerto ricans better......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

demetrius: iam 22 years old i live and humboldt park from 1992-1998 and i attend von humboldt school and i love humboldt park and iam 100% african american we never had promblems with the puerto ricans......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Dee: I was born in Bushwick in 1955. I left when I got married in 78. Bushwick was a really nice area until the mad exodus of the 60's everyone ran.Brodway was a great shopping area......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

Xavi: It is not only about class, but race as well. Instead of "poor people," in the context of Humboldt Park, it should be Puerto Ricans and Latinas/os. ...

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Xavi: I live in Humboldt Park, in the Paseo Boricua commercial strip. Reading through most of these comments, I have this to write: In order to understand the state of Humboldt Park and the Puerto Rican......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

IVY: I grew up in beatiful Humboldt Park. I lived there from the age of 7 when it was all white. There were only two Puerto RIcan families on our block. We lived......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

ROB: Bushwick sucks, Ridgewood too. I lived in both parts and Gendale too. Williamsburgh and so on. Bushwish/Ridgewood same crap is like this, one small raid road apartment for $1500 a month with......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Polaco: I grew up with tanks rolling down the street, then at age 8 I lived in NY to see violence in different form, at age 11 moved to Chicago, same shit...When are we all gonna......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

anon (static-host-66-18-45-122.epbinternet.com): Another perspective. I'm 50 years old. Born in St. Anthony's, lived on Fairfield and Richmond Streets, attended Moos School. Gangs are nothing new. Puerto Ricans began moving into the neighborhood in......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

cristina : I'm a young, Puerto Rican girl who was born and some-what raised in Humboldt Park.(on spaulding & wabansia) I live in the southwest suburbs now, since all the gang-violence and poor public school system was......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

zilep: Bought a house in the heart of Bushwick- on Central avenue and Cornelia streets (one of those cookie cutter homes with all the meters showing- you know the ones the BROWNSTONER people love to hate).......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Silo: Hey Mookie, by the way I think you are wrong about the worst projects in Paterson a.k.a P:town the worst and im sure other people can agree with me on this one was C.C.P- Christopher......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

loca from Ny: First and foremost I would like to say that the Latin Kings and Queens were made to protect it's people what events happened through ought it's history for it to become like this no one......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

upfromflames: Cuban Refugees? I never heard that angle before! I always thought it was Puerto Ricans spilling over and displaced form Williamsburg...interesting. I guess they moved on from the area. Nowadays, by the way, Bushwick is......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

pierre: i graduated in 1977, it was a good school in the mid-seventies, i was in the band, we had a orchestra and a chorus. i remember that we couldn't go past a certain point......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

from starr st.: 1st. off upfromflames, i am going to my storage space and look for my pics and send them to you. now i was born and rasied in bushwick. PROUD of it.just as proud......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

I am Puerto Rican, and Really Angry at your Lack of Concern and Knowledge:: I agree with you Rich. I would love to live in a world where people can coexist peacefully along side one another. All I am saying is that most people make generalizations of people based......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

I am Puerto Rican, and Really Angry at your Lack of Concern and Knowledge:: I have attended various universities in both Chicago and Puerto Rico. I am currently a student at the University of Puerto Rico, and at one point I was Trying to recieve my BA from......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Jeremy Jones: As a rubio who also happens to be Puerto Rican, I've always spent most of my time in NYC in the South Bronx, in Spanish Harlem, and in other neighborhoods where the Puerto Rican culture......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Scott: Just moved to Bushwick 2 years ago, very white, and a supposed part of this so-called "gentrification." I, and the other "white people" that live in my building all moved here for two reasons.......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

JNJ: Again. The problem isn't your, "whiteness". Human phenotypes don't necessarily always reflect the genotypes. "White", just like Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, is just a generic term used to separate people for the......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

RESPONSE TO : Yea-Yo: Im Puerto Rican and im buying property converting it into condos and giving it right back to the RICANS of Humboldt Park. Why might you ask because im RICH BICTH!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for you yuppies i......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

crlsgll: This conversation about Bushwick is great. I love reading the personal narratives that fuel each story and shed light in our differences; which is a blessing in disguise, for if we all agreed then this......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

JNJ: Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I would be......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Interested: Hi JNJ, Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Vanessa: I live in Humboldt Park. It isn't as bad as people say it is. I get really tired Of people putting puerto ricans down. I an in a family of 5 and my grandmother to......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

DREW: hey guys, cabrini green is still pretty bad and violent, you just don't here about it as much because its smaller. If you don't believe you can check this website out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_7xzKVVrT8 go to......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

vv: I grew up in the HP neighborhood and saw many things from gang fights to death right in front of me at the age of 9. I come from a poor Puerto Rican family of......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

JNJ: "I was running in Humboldt Park the other day, as I have for a few years, when 2 Puerto Rican 17ish year olds rammed their bicycles into me. I stepped to them, as it were,......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

S: That was a pretty antagonistic and incoherent post JMJ, and I find it to be consistent with other white racist feelings that I some times experienced from some residents of Humboldt Park. ......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

JNJ: Everybody is missing the point here and underlying factor. I grew up in Humboldt Park. I lived there for 32 years. Yes, it was stressful. However, I had allot of fun......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Yea-Yo: Exactly Culture Club. I'd love to understand more about these deep roots people claim they've laid into Humboldt Park. The dirty ass alleys, unkept yards, trash all over, people with no regard for the next......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

KING CISCO 95TH ROSLAND: IM READIN ALOT OF SHIT ABOUT HUMBOLDT MY AUNT LIVED THER FOR 4 YEARS AND I SPENT ALOT OF TIME OUT THERE. (IM MEXICAN). I GOT SOMTHIN TO SAY ABOUT THE FOOL TALKIN ABOUT EDUCATION......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

peacefrog: As an American who has lived in Canada most of his life, visiting the US and especially NYC is a harsh reality check, and a reminder that the ravages of racism are still alive and......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Genaro: During the late 1940's and 50's, many of The Manhattan Elite thought it proper in calling the less popular working or the poor social White under class, WHITE TRASH! This would also include Whites who......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

carlos mario: Since I'm writing about gentrification in Bushwick, this all is so interesting, especially the part of the story that The Truth mentions, as it relates to what I'm writing. Roger Starr, planned shrinkage, arson, disinvestment,......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

TheTruth: Nice try at history, Sylvia, but you've missed some huge factors. My family was part of that 1st wave of nonwhites to integrate Bushwick in the 1950s. They weren't Gentry -- sorry--even though they were......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Boricua/Mexicana las dos: My mother has done a great job bringing me up, from her having nothing, not a stable home, not a family that supported her, not any motivation, she made it her life goal to make......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Chino: Big up to all my people, I'm originally from Elgin, and I spent a lot of my time in Humbolt Park, as a kid I remember going to HP to visit family on Rockwell, I......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Mushi: I actually just moved to Bushwick last week. I lived in Manhattan for two years but just couldn't afford it. Plus, I needed a larger space. For 30% less than what I was paying in......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

franny: I grew up in bushwick on bleecker and irving during the 60's & 70's. It was the happiest time I had in my life. It was a blue collar hard working neighborhood. You could sleep......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: No worries, we got the Mini-Me Bush, or Bush Jr. for Prime Minister now. Bush thinks he **already** owns us. Why would he invade Canada? That would be like a US invasion of Puerto Rico.......

in response to: Still Standing by Biff

SAMILA: Humboldt Park is beauty at its finest! It gives us all the opportunity to see what is bad and good. We hate the gangs, but we love how Puerto Ricans respect and preserve their......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Boriqua/Morena: I am mixed with Puerto Rican and Black. I have lived in Humboldt Park all of my life and I have learned to accept what the neighborhood is about. This is my life it is......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Humboldt Park - Dave: Your right! Insightoner. Norwegians, did occupy most of Humboldt Pk. back in the day. I can't speak for all Puerto Ricans. But, I don't really think most of us in Humboldt hate having whites or any......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

insightoner: Good stuff. A couple of things to keep everything in perspective: Humbolt was white untill the 70's. Don't you think the whites that lived there pre70's felt the same way when Puerto......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Humbolt Park - Dave: Staci, There's a book I purchased unfortunately at Borders bookstore titled "Images of America, Puerto Rican Chicago" by Wilfredo Cruz. It covers everything from Families, Community life, Political/Social Activism, Arts and Culture. I look forward purchasing your......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Staci: Wow. This blog is great. I'm a resident of Humboldt Park for two years now and just signed my lease for another year. I don't have a lot of time right this......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

michelle: What comes around goes around. It didn't stay Polish, Italian and German. It won't stay Puerto Rican either. Humboldt Park community was incorporated into the City of Chicago in 1869, the same year that saw......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

nursing student betmatt: Jesus Christ all I wanted to do was to find some pics on HP and I found some much bad info on HP that now I am afraid to do my research on this area.......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Alfonso aka Smiley: im frm queens, new york city n now i stay in a-town by da chi all i gotz ta say iz dat no matta where uz go thurr always gunna b gang shit......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Humboldt Park - DAVE: Margaret, I suggest you visit Humboldt Pk on a weekend just to get your feet wet. Bring a friend or two and maybe have some coffee and pastries @ Cafe Colao, Saucer, Humboldt Pie. Lunch @......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

BS5: I stupid and can't write --- that's what all us Puerto Ricans should due! C 'ya in'da'hood monkey! ALKQN...

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

BabyD: Well I am 17 years old.I am half Puerto Rican and half Mexican. and I was born and raised in the Humbolt Park Area.Until I moved about two years ago.I loved HP it was the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Anon: where did all the puerto ricans in wicker park go? out with the poor, in with the new....

in response to: wicker park by corsakti

T K#3: Humboldt Park has more "Latino vs. White" racism than most anywhere I've been (except for some parts of France which I've been to! This is due mostly to the tight integration of neighborhoods and individual......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

joey: After reading through this board I saw how racist people are towards whites. Im Italian/Irish from Chicago. My dad grew up in the Italian hood on Taylor street. I feel the pain......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Payaso: I used to live near Mozart and Bloomingdale and the neighborhood used to be dangerous, but a lot has changed and now it seems people feel pretty comfortable jogging and bike-riding-- even at night. ......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Shortie: It's funny how i have read most of these peoples comments talking about how humbodlt park is owned by the puerto Ricans and hows it was always are little part of chicago....i find that funny......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Question.....: First off i would like to say i come with much love, honor, y respect.... Not real sure if this would be the place to post or if anyone has an answer to my questions..........

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

M, J (MP): Gangs shouldn't even be killing innocent lives. Everybody that lives in HP/ North side, South side, West side,& East side knows that it ain't easy to live in a huge enviornment where there's a lot......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

big O : After reading some of these articles I've come to the conclusion that being Latino or in my case Puerto Rican "Newyorican " we are misunderstood . Being Latino is not about gangs or parades ,......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Ramón: Humboldt Parks belongs to humanity. Many people and many cultures have enjoyed its beauty, some have contributed more than others. I grew up on 2735 W. Division and for some reason going home......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

loca: watup yall.. Whats really good? I was born and raised in HP. To this day i still stay in da hood. naw i aint puertorican, im mexican, but yet a latina. I have made love 4......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

TheManTheDeveloper: The area has passed hands through many cultures in Chicago's history. The only thing constant in life is change. My good Puerto Rican neighbors who worked hard and bought their 2 flats and......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

J.J. From a Puerto Rican brother: I'm not writing this to judge or criticize anyone. Just to try to open a little conscience on la raza Latina. Mi gente, how can you speak of love when you talk everyone else down.......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

HOTTIE gurl : Can anyone put pictures of humboldt park please!!!! Im mexican and puerto rican and dont know what humbolst park looks like!!!!...

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Thank You: DISINVESTMENT created HP... .Puerto Ricans were nieve country people that got consumed and spit out by American city life......Humboldt Park will become Lincoln Park in the next decade ....Lincoln Park used to look like Spanish......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Corporal Diaz U.S.M.C.: Some time has gone by since I first laid my thoughts on this forum. I can see nothing has changed sine I left Humboldt park. And to some degree it saddens me, but it does......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

StripesA4: yoo them dudes is crazy. they are fanatics. they be on 34th as well across the sdtreet from macys. they look at me like im white but im so puertorican i got it coming out......

in response to: purveyors of prophecy by vz

Puertorican Nena: This comment is to Historian who commented on the "true" definition of a latino(a), which I looked up and have retrieved this definition: La·ti·no NOUN: pl. La·ti·nos A Latin American. A person of Hispanic, especially......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Luis : First of all I would like to say that I am a proud Puerto rican/ mexican american and I would like to send a message to all my hispanic/latino people that we all need to......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Young Father: Disinvestment created HP... Gangs are an old relic idea thats past its time...Puerto Ricans were nieve country people that got consumed and spit out by American city life......HP will become Lincoln Park in the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

historian: I find it interesting that mexicans, puerto ricans etc call themselves latinos and latinas. What does this term mean? To be a Latino is to come from a Latin country, Central or South America. Who......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

benrox: Alright - I've read a good amount of these posts. Let me start off by saying that I am white. I've been living in "the hood" my whole life. I don't live in Humboldt Park,......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

cafeconleche--just a little research to substaciate what I'm talkin' 'bout...: ....Pedro Albizu Campos protested vigorously against the US Navy’s invasion of Vieques in 1941. In a series of articles published in a newspaper, Albizu accused the Navy of carrying out a policy of genocide against......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

seeking a future I agree with you: The thing is ---there are a lot of factor that can be attibuted to not moving up---Firstly the U.S createda system of dependency when FDR intorduce Operation Bootsrap which was ppart of the NEW Deal--in......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

cafeconleche...: Mia about your comment about finding a way to afford to live in Humbolt Park--that's comment is SO wrong on SO many Levels there are layers to my rebuttle...YOu know--I'm part of the middle......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

sophia: I'm a white girl.I love my home and i appreciate the diversity of Humboldt Park. I understand wanting to preserve Puerto Rican heritage in Humboldt Park it's importance. Gang violance wherever it amy exsist causes......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

J: I was born and raised in Humbolt Park people need to stop complaining about the Gangs cause the cops (pigs) are as fucked up as we are if not worst and all my peeps repin......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti