I’m quite sure the passage of time has written an entirely different story, or has it?
Google Vito Marcantonio. He was a communist without a party card, the most far out leftwinger in Congress until a heart attack took him out in 1954.
Not really.
Those who assimilated often did well here. Many have retired and moved back to PR. But those who chose to live as gov’t. dependents, not learn/speak English (who needed to when even the ballots could be attained in Spanish?) remain impoverished thanks to the carrots proffered by vote hungry politicians. Add to that the tens of thousands of other Caribbean Islanders who make their way to PR and then come to Nueva York as “Puerto Ricans” and you find el Barrio still exists.
I have read first hand accounts here on FR that the turning point between “Safely walking across Central Park at night with my little sister” and “Not safe” was the influx of Ricans.
They apparently raised the crime rate quite a bit.
Ten kids per family killed Puerto Rico.
Guess what prompted that situation?