East Harlem’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at Hunter College currently features two important new exhibitions. One explores how the Puerto Rican diaspora has spread outward from the archipelago, while the other examines how New York City’s Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood of San Juan Hill was aggressively gentrified and transformed into Lincoln Center.

“Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People” and “Afterlives of San Juan Hill” are both free to the public and will be on view through September 2025.

“Diasporic Collage” documents the multiple diasporas that have migrated to and journeyed away from Puerto Rico. Created in collaboration with Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum and the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, the exhibition showcases works by vari

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