The Struggles of Puerto Ricans in New York

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]hated the grocery stores that sold them make-believe steak and bulletproof rice and beans. This is the Southeast Bronx, one of the worst of New York's sprawling slums. [music] About 1/3 of the city's 1 million Puerto Ricans live in this area.

[00:00:15]>> [music] >> By the mid-60s, the South Bronx was in a state of economic free fall.

[00:00:20]Every study that had [music] been made indicates that the Puerto Ricans live in the worst conditions of slum housing, have the worst [music] jobs, have the um the lowest educational attainment, and by every [music] index of health and poverty.

[00:00:36]They are dead. They are dead [music] and will not return from the dead until they stop neglecting the art of their dialogue for broken English lessons to impress the system who keep them employed as lava platos, porters, messenger boys, factory workers, maids, stock clerks, shipping clerks, assistant mailroom assistant, assistant assistant to the assistant assistant