Like virtually everywhere in Puerto Rico, Cabo Rojo, a municipality in the southwest corner of Puerto Rico, has sent significant number of migrants to New York. People from Cabo Rojo were among those who created the major Puerto Rican neighborhoods on the Lower East Side and East Harlem after the Second World War—and gave the municipality’s name to a famous Puerto Rican restaurant in Chelsea that lasted for over half a century.
Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico