La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña

La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña Puerto Rican culture, education and research center
(501[c][3]), est. 1983 in Spanish Harlem, NYC La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña, Inc.

(La Casa) is a (501[c][3]) non-profit cultural, educational and research center organized in 1981 by pioneers driven to preserve, promote and advance Puerto Rico’s national heritage in the diaspora for the public benefit. La Casa filed as a domestic not-for-profit corporation in the State of New York on November 14, 1983. La Casa continues its vital mission 40 years later through its programs, events and workshops, from the same beautiful historic district of El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) it was founded in, engaging all people through the arts, literature, history, sciences and advocacy for a more prosperous and equitable society. La Casa's page, Instagram, and website are managed in New York by Rafael Merino (), Chairman of the Board of Directors, and in Puerto Rico by technology associate, Jorge Morales.

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10/03/2026

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Two of Puerto Rico’s biggest newspapers announced Monday that they will end their print editions in upcoming days and pi...
09/23/2026

Two of Puerto Rico’s biggest newspapers announced Monday that they will end their print editions in upcoming days and pivot to digital only, joining a worldwide trend. GFR Media, a Puerto Rican company that publishes El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora, said Monday that the decision responds to a change in consumer habits.
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Two of Puerto Rico’s biggest newspapers say they will end their print editions in upcoming days and pivot to digital only, joining a worldwide trend.

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09/22/2026

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09/05/2026

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During the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, a Puerto Rican flag flew alongside the flags of every U.S. state and terr...
09/05/2026

During the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, a Puerto Rican flag flew alongside the flags of every U.S. state and territory on humanity’s first journey to the lunar surface. After the mission, Puerto Rico was presented with the flown flag and authentic lunar rock samples as a commemorative gift from the U.S. government.

Today, these remarkable artifacts are preserved at Puerto Rico’s Aerospace Institute in Bayamón, where visitors can see a unique piece of both Puerto Rican and space exploration history.

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Cuatro and guitar classes, plus new cutro classes for children!
08/23/2026

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"This map isn’t a map of Puerto Rico. It’s a map of what Puerto Rico could produce.In 1899, one year after the U.S. inva...
08/23/2026

"This map isn’t a map of Puerto Rico. It’s a map of what Puerto Rico could produce.

In 1899, one year after the U.S. invasion, the U.S. Geological Survey sent Herbert M. Wilson to classify every acre of the island by crop, coffee, sugarcane, grassland, to***co, bananas. Not by town. Not by who lived where. By output.

That’s not an accusation, it’s what the document itself does. A government doesn’t map land that way for curiosity. It maps land that way to plan what comes next: taxation, infrastructure, investment, extraction.

I’m Alberto. I go looking for the paperwork behind the story everyone already thinks they know, and this is the paperwork.

This post was written and researched by me, with AI tools assisting the process.

The receipt is at the Library of Congress." — Alberto J. Bermudez

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215 E. 99th Street, Studio 2
New York, NY
10029

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+16463604126

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