Map of Puerto Rico and New York showing enclaves of Puerto Rican Settlement. By 1960, over 600,000 people of Puerto Rican birth or parentage lived in New York City


Map based on data from U.S. Census Bureau.

Illustration by Nandini Bagchee.

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This project is an expansion of the themes from the exhibit Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida (2019) authored and designed by the urban historian and architect Nandini Bagchee in partnership with curator Libertad Guerra.

AELES is an evolving resource that can grow to include supplemental layers of the case studies selected and the ongoing survival and futuring intents of these legacies.