Español Cubano
Cuban Spanish
Financial District +1New York City is home to a tremendous diversity of Spanish varieties, largely mutually intelligible but highly distinctive along regional, ethnic, and local lines — for this map, as among speakers themselves, national distinctions (e.g. Peruvian Spanish, Colombian Spanish) are used even though these do not completely capture the nature of the diversity. In general, Caribbean Spanish varieties were dominant for most of the 20th century due to the large Puerto Rican and Dominican populations but today the range of Spanish varieties is becoming ever more various.
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n the late 19th century, a significant community Cuban political refugees and cigar makers formed, with many working in lower Manhattan. Most famous among them was the writer and revolutionary José Martí, who helped forge a modern Cuba from his exile base in the city. Cubans continued to arrive after the Spanish-American War of 1898 made the island a US territory, and yet another wave after the Cuban revolution, now settling in parts of the Bronx, Queens (home to the long-time restaurant Rincon Criollo), and elsewhere. Union City and West New York, across the river in New Jersey, have since become "Havana on the Hudson", home to one of the largest and most organized Cuban-American communities outside Florida.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.