Word: bodega
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first put down roots. There are well over 600,000 Puerto Ricans in New York City (there were fewer than 100,000 in 1945), but there is not really a section that is to Puerto Ricans what Harlem is to Negroes. Almost every sector of the city has a bodega (grocery) or two, and perhaps a Spanish-language movie house...