daniel galante with its runnings. so talk about the origins of this place called the nuyorican cafe. there was an element of new york puerto ricans. the term nuyorican meant new yorkers of puerto rican descent. the initial desire to have this collective of artists was based in part of the challenges on the frictions between being part of this city and still having a homeland, an identity tied to a different island. and how, if your family and your friends or your family and your spouse or your family and your co-workers identify with different communities, how to reconcile those different energies. with the current generation of puerto ricans artists, what does this space mean to them given the whole history of this space? there s a sense in this space that the nuyorican literary movement went from being a hope, a dream, a conception, to being a reality. i m a grandson of the first nuyoricanos.