David António Cruz: Reimagining Family
September 26, 2025
David Antonio Cruz is a Philadelphia-born, New York-based artist whose work revisits the complexities of family, queer identity, and the Puerto Rican diaspora experience.
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Centro, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
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The More Things Change… Growth, Public Goods, and Hispanic Displacement in New York
September 22, 2025
Once again, the state of New York is asking Hispanic families to bear the inordinate costs of public goods from which they are not as likely to benefit in the … Continued
CENTRO Announces Extension for Exhibitions: Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People and Afterlives of San Juan Hill
September 17, 2025
New York City, NY (September 17, 2025) — The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at Hunter College is excited to announce an extension to its exhibitions: Diasporic Collage: Puerto … Continued
Juanita Lanzo: The Gestures of Embodiment
September 12, 2025
Juanita Lanzo, born in Puerto Rico and based in New York City, is an Afro-Puerto Rican artist whose work explores narratives of the body and sexuality—often considered “abject”—through drawings and watercolors.
CENTRO Announces 2025-2026 Fellows And Community Organizations Selected for the Rooted + Relational Initiative
September 04, 2025
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) has announced the fellows and community micro-grant recipients selected for the second year of the “Rooted + Relational” research initiative. … Continued
Upcoming Events
Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People
October 06, 2025
Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. Puerto Rico’s colonial status and geographical location situate it as a locus of global encounters and ongoing displacement. On view at CENTRO Gallery (2180 3rd Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY) through November 22, 2025.
Afterlives of San Juan Hill
October 06, 2025
In 1958, an emerging Puerto Rican community was displaced from New York City’s Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill neighborhoods to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Fordham University. Infamously called “the Puerto Rican Slum” and “the worst slum in New York,” by the architect of New York’s Urban Renewal Process, Robert Moses, Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill were home to approximately 2,000 Puerto Ricans.
Cafecito con... Marisol Negron and Matti Steinitz: The Revolutionary Notes of Salsa and Latin Soul
September 19, 2025
Stop by for a discussion highlighting how Afro-Latin Soul and Salsa challenged existing notions of what it meant to be Puerto Rican in America in the 60s and 70s, provided … Continued
Nuyorican Photography as Poetics: Diasporic Collage and the Loving Vision of Frank Espada
October 22, 2025
Celebrate the work and legacy of photographer Frank Espada with his son & Poet Martin Espada alongside a multi-generational cohort of acclaimed Nuyorican photographers including Máximo Colón, David Gonzalez, and … Continued
CUNY, Boricuas, and Bilingual Education
November 20, 2025
Did you know Bilingual Education in New York has direct ties to the struggle, leadership, and advocacy of the Puerto Rican community? From Sonia Nieto, Diana Caballero, Alice Cardona, Evelina … Continued
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