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9-17-2024
Join CENTRO Archivist, Herbert Durán, and Gabriela Sanchez, board member and volunteer at the Carmen Pabón del Amanecer Jardín, as they explore the Carmen Pabón del Amanacer Jardín Collection housed at our Library & Archives. Carmen Pabón, dubbed “La Madrina de Loisaida”, was a community leader who transformed a vacant lot into a community garden, with the intention of creating a leisure space for children and older adults. The garden, named El Bello Amanecer Borinqueño Garden, provided food, clothing, and support for the unhoused of New York City. In the evenings, the garden would become a hub for activism and poetry. Mayor Rudy Guiliani would eventually sell the garden to a private developer in 1999 but that did not stop Pabón’s activism, she continued to advocate for other L.E.S staples such as St. Brigid Church in 2008. In 2016, El Bello Amanecer Boriqueño re-opened under a new moniker, “Carmen Pabón del Amanecer Jardín.” Pabón passed away just a few weeks after the ribbon cutting ceremony.
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9-17-2024
Join CENTRO Archivist, Herbert Durán, and Gabriela Sanchez, board member and volunteer at the Carmen Pabón del Amanecer Jardín, as they explore the Carmen Pabón del Amanacer Jardín Collection housed at our Library & Archives. Carmen Pabón, dubbed “La Madrina de Loisaida”, was a community leader who transformed a vacant lot into a community garden, with the intention of creating a leisure space for children and older adults. The garden, named El Bello Amanecer Borinqueño Garden, provided food, clothing, and support for the unhoused of New York City. In the evenings, the garden would become a hub for activism and poetry. Mayor Rudy Guiliani would eventually sell the garden to a private developer in 1999 but that did not stop Pabón’s activism, she continued to advocate for other L.E.S staples such as St. Brigid Church in 2008. In 2016, El Bello Amanecer Boriqueño re-opened under a new moniker, “Carmen Pabón del Amanecer Jardín.” Pabón passed away just a few weeks after the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. We provide support to students, scholars, artists, and members of the community at large across and beyond New York. We produce original research, films, books, and educational tools and are the home of The Centro Journal—the premiere academic journal of Puerto Rican Studies. Our aim is to create actionable and accessible scholarship to strengthen, broaden, and reimagine the field of Puerto Rican studies.
Learn more at centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
Follow us on social media!
Instagram: instagram.com/centropr
Facebook: facebook.com/centropr
Twitter: x.com/centropr
Threads: threads.net/@centropr
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