In Little Little Havana, Not Quite as Much of a Cuban Feel

As might be expected, Fidel Castro’s retirement announcement on Tuesday occasioned much reflection on the past, many wistful remembrances of happier times and different eras in this town at the heart of the nation’s largest Cuban community outside South Florida. As might not be expected, the subject was often not Cuba. It was Union City.

Mr. Castro’s announcement was certainly big news for many people in what is sometimes called Little Little Havana, where at its peak more than 90 percent of the businesses on the main drag of Bergenline Avenue were Cuban-owned. And so the television trucks and reporters from as far away as the newspaper from Catalonia, Spain, descended on Pan Con Todo, Las Americas and El Artesano, local restaurants where people gather for Cuban fries, pan con bistec, cafe Cubano and dulce de leche.”*

*From: http://www.nytimes.com
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