The great majority are in New York state, but neighbouring New Jersey also has its Dominican communities, spread out in the old and declining industrial suburbs. At least half a million are officially resident, while many more are illegal immigrants, living in fear of the authorities and a sudden deportation order. Climate apart, you could easily imagine yourself in some barrio of Santo Domingo.ĭominicans are now the second biggest Latino group (after Mexicans) in the United States.
Merengue music blares out from CD stores, little restaurants serve up spicy sancocho and ice-cold Presidente beer, courier companies promise to deliver dollars anywhere in the Republic within 24 hours. This is the Dominican Republic come to the Big Apple, Nueva York as the locals call it.
All big cities have their distinct immigrant districts, but New York’s Washington Heights, at the northern tip of Manhattan, is more conspicuously foreign than most.
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