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  • The Growth of Dominican Political Power in New York

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    An Espaillat campaign party (photo: Infinity Media IM/John R. Gagain Jr. @jgagain)


    New York City, in all likelihood, won’t have a Dominican-American mayor after this year’s election. But that does not mean that the political power representing roughly 700,000 New Yorkers of Dominican heritage — about 30% of the city’s entire Hispanic population and just behind Puerto Ricans, who number around 730,000, according to ...