Latin music store keeps the music playing
You can hear Cholo’s Record Shop before you see it. Boleros, the kind that Cholo’s father used to play on the family turntable back in Puerto Rico, envelop E 148th…
‘Arsenio’ explores the roots of Bronx Salsa
When the lights go down in the ID Studio Theater, both actors and audience are ready to step into the history of salsa music and the blind Afro-Cuban composer who…
Melrose street is renamed, with a nod to its Salsa roots
One of the South Bronx’s staple cultural exports was honored on Monday with a street renaming in Melrose. The corner of E. 155th Street and Third Avenue was renamed El…
Salsa dancing returns to Hunts Point streets with a light show
Salsa dancing and an interactive light show are coming to the streets of the South Bronx for eight Friday evenings this fall, starting Aug. 26, as part of the city’s…
Dressing salseros in Melrose
On the top floor of a building wedged between Third and Melrose avenues, Laura Diaz spends her afternoons seated at a sewing machine, piecing together neon fabrics, fringe and rhinestones,…