I grew up in Washington Heights, just north of Harlem, in New York City. When I was in my first year of parochial school, 1958, most of my classmates in my class picture were White. By the time I’d completed my eighth year of parochial school, most of my classmates in the class picture were Hispanic: Cubans and Puerto Ricans. One was Black. There were very few Dominicans in the neighborhood at that time. The few Dominicans in the neighborhood were clustered on 172nd Street between Amsterda...
