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Happy holidays ! Ft. The boroughs & Will/Albany. No text version beneath

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busy as of late. this was a body hair / tattoo practice ft. Rodrigo/ the Bronx. Lol I wanted to give him these stereotypical Nuyorican and Irish-American tattoos that I see everywhere (cause he's both), and now I think lowkey imma keep it + the body hair.

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So which boroughs are poor and which ones are rich? Do you try to help each other out? Also, this is giving me Great Gatsby vibes.

Manhattan: Well Tony and I are filthy rich! I mean we were always rich, we’re both cities. Well Tony isn’t anymore and he wasn’t always as rich as me. The rest of them are well the usual, kinda poor I guess. Whatever without me, they’d all still be farming. Now they’re all doing construction and what not.

Brooklyn: Was any of that necessary to add?

Staten Island: Oh my god! You’re Mr. Italy right?!

Romano:…uh…sure…

Queens: Should we help him?

The Bronx: With Frank, it’s all souls for themselves.

So yeah, Brooklyn and Manhattan are and were on the more wealthier side than the other boroughs. Up until the turn of the last century, most of the other boroughs with the exception of Manhattan and Brooklyn were mostly farmland. Also duahshs yeah I guess it does have Great Gatsby vibes lol. And everyone who guessed the pose in the opening post, here’s a gold star ⭐️

also howdy I said it before but I’ll say it again, I like @askitaliaromano ‘s hc of Romano working in the US during that period.

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Bronx, do you ever have to correct people that it was you that invented salsa dancing?

The Bronx: Ugh constantly! I’m the sole inventor of salsa dancing.

What Actually Happened:

The Bronx: Hey can I copy your homework?

Cuba: Sure, don’t make it obvious.

I do have a post explaining New York salsa lol , here. Also hiii @ask-hws-cuba & @aphcuba

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Day 1- History - NY Salsa

So salsa dancing began to gain popularity in New York starting in Spanish Harlem (East Harlem in Manhattan) & the Bronx. It traces its origins back to Cuba and dances such as the mambo, cha cha cha, and son montuno. But the salsa that starts up in New York was primarily brough over by the Puerto Rican community ( Nuyorican = New York Puerto Rican ) starting as early as the 1940s.

And ever since salsa was created various countries, regions, and cities have their own salsa style such as in Cali, Colombia (this cute Colombia belongs 2 @ask-the-dominican-republic qwq I hope I got her right).

Ok ok so how did salsa end up in New York? Immigration. And how did New York get a salsa style? Well ok, so if you just moved to New York well into the 1970s you’d might go to dancehalls to meet other people. There were lots of dancehalls specifically meant for people of different ethnicities such as Irish, Italian, Polish, German, Russian, and versions other dancehalls. This was how you’d meet people of a similar background of you and how you began to be part of a community. When Puerto Ricans and other groups from the Caribbean and other places in Latin America began to arrive they’d go to these dancehalls which was how New York salsa was born (idk much about actual dancing ok, but they start on 2).

As for Rodrigo (the Bronx), he likes to claim he invented salsa. That’s debatable. He doesn’t always openly like to admit he salsa dances, but he enjoys it very much and occasionally has gotten the other boroughs involved. Although be warned, don’t partner with Frank (Staten Island) if you’re gonna dance salsa.

@aph-latam-events

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Just a little pose practicing thing using Rodrigo (the Bronx) because I can : )

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Boroughoes at the beach

Just something more light from the past two posts :)

Lynn (Manhattan) just soaks up the sun while practically her feral children the other boroughs sneak up to flip over Tony’s (Brooklyn) floatie.

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What neighborhood do they live in?

Lynn (Manhattan) lives in the Upper East Side. xoxo gossip girl here. It’s expensive , the way she likes it.

Tony (Brooklyn, lol I changed his name cause I didn’t like it) lives in Carroll Gardens. He moved there around the 1870s, easier access to New York City.

Rodrigo (The Bronx) lives in Morrisania. He’s lived here since it was the Morris Manor.

Andy (Queens) lives in Elmhurst. He’s moved around a few times, he lived in Flushing for a while, but decided to settle in Elmhurst in the 1950s

Frank (Staten Island) lives in Old Town. This was where the original Dutch settlement in Staten Island was located. It was called Oude Dorp.