News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Domincans’

The NY State Assembly will have the first Dominican that represents part of the New York City borough, the Bronx, NY1,com reports.

It said Bronx Democrats nominated Nelson Castro on Tuesday, to fill the void left in the 86th Assembly District after Luis Diaz becomes the state’s Community Affairs Commissioner. “*

The soaring number of Dominican bodega owners would seem to bear him out. Begun in 1998 with a handful of founders, Philadelphia’s Dominican Grocers’ Association today numbers about 300 active members and estimates that 1,000 bodegas across the city are Dominican-owned.

“We are in the places where supermarkets don’t want to be or fear to be,” said Jose Joaquin Mota, 42, who owned two stores in Philadelphia and now edits El Comercial, a two-year-old, 10,000-circulation monthly that caters to the grocers who have been buying up stores once held by Puerto Ricans and Koreans.”*