Tag: Cuba

  • Fidel Castro in Harlem

    Fidel Castro in Harlem

    On this day back in 1960, a German press photographer captured a mounted NYPD officer controlling a crowd of pro-Cuban Dominicans who were in Harlem, near the Theresa Hotel, to show their support for the new Cuban regime. Note that JFK had not yet been elected – that would come in November of 1960 –…