The Garifuna community — an Afro-indigenous population emanating from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent that was exiled to the Honduran and Guatemalan coasts — is a 100,000-plus stronghold in Bronx corridors such as Crotona Park and the South Bronx, making the borough the biggest Garifuna hub in the world.
However, despite immigration to NYC dating back as early as the 1930s, the community didn’t receive much recognition until tragedy struck when roughly 30 of the 87 of the people who perished in the March 1990 fire at the Happy Land Social Club were identified as Garifuna.
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