Why it matters: After years of gentrification ... have all paid visits. For Puerto Ricans like Giovanni Gonzalez, who is from San Juan and has lived in New York since 2018, Toñita's is a home ...

Rachel Nieves owns Buddies Coffee in Brooklyn. The business was going fine until she got the news that a new, much larger coffee shop was opening right next door. Nieves got on social media and ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- For one coffee shop owner ... Rachel Nieves is the co-owner of Buddies Coffee, one of the few and newest Puerto Rican-owned coffee shops in Williamsburg.

As a native New Yorker and Puerto Rican woman operating in a historically Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn, she finds it particularly heartbreaking. "This is gentrification," she told viewers on ...

Just last month, it was included in a New York Times profile of three coffee ... but it was a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood before all the gentrification wiped so many people away ...

as his campaign tries to smooth over relations with Puerto Ricans after Sunday's New York rally, where comic Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” “We don’t ...