Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion greets New York Army National Guardsmen.
Bronx Dominican Heritage Celebration
In case no one has noticed, Dominicans are the fastest-growing ethnic community in the Bronx.
And with gentrification pushing into the Dominican-American stronghold in upper Manhattan, large numbers of the Caribbean island natives who’ve made New York their home continue to cross into the Bronx.
The 2000 census showed 133,000 foreign-born and American-born Dominicans living in the Bronx. In 2005, more than 200,000 Dominicans called the borough home. Although the next census is in 2010, the federal American Community Survey shows Dominicans making the largest population gains in the borough of any immigrant group.
Last Wednesday night, a number of the borough’s Dominicans gathered in the Rotunda at the Bronx County Building to hold a Bronx Dominican Heritage Celebration as part of Dominican Heritage Month, with colorful dancing and singing and, of course, a few speeches about Dominican pride and accomplishment.
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