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SALSA @ THE WATERFRONT

BORICUA FESTIVAL


DATE OF EVENT Saturday, June 24th, 2017.
TIME 12:00 noon to 7:00 PM rain or shine.

LOCATION

Located on the waterfront on Pier 4 at 58th Street and 1st Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
VIEW LOCATION MAP Click Here For Map.  Travel instructions are below.
PRESENTED BY The Boricua Festival Committee in association with United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park and Salsa En La Calle NY Style Television.  Hosted by Willie Villegas.
CONTACT INFO www.BoricuaFestivalNY.org (unblock cookies)  -  See also Local Newspaper Article about this event.
TYPE OF EVENT & VENUE Free outdoor summer festival in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on the pier over the river, featuring bands, salsa performances, Latin food, arts, crafts, community based organizations and more.
MUSIC Mostly salsa bands..
DANCE PERFORMANCES Salsa Salsa Dance School , Movimiento Dancers , Lorenz Latin Dance and Latin Fever On 2 Dance Company .
DJ DJ Elvin and DJ Benny Fuego.
BAND Pedro Conga Y Su Orquesta, Son Tres Y Mas featuring Ralph Irizarry and Grupo Arcano.  They will be listed on our Main Calendar.
DANCE FLOOR There's no specific "dance floor", so people dance pretty much anywhere they want.  Most dancing is on the pier, which is cement.  Most cement surfaces are rather "slow".
PRICES Free.
BEVERAGES AND FOOD There are concessions with Latin food and plenty of beverages.
DRESS CODE Casual, typical outdoor summer clothing.  Anything goes....almost.

DANCE TIMING

This is a neighborhood street festival so there be some On 2 dancers from the local Brooklyn mambo studios and also dancers and the general public dancing on various timings and styles.

DESCRIPTION This event is held outdoors every year on Pier 4 at  58th Street and 1st Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.  It's a classic New York City street festival with music, dancing, concessions stands with food, beverages, arts, crafts, community groups, attended by people of all ages and dancing styles.
 
HOW TO GET THERE This event is held on the 58th Street Pier at 1st Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.  Click Here For Map .

By Subway:  Take the N or R trains to the 59th Street Station in Brooklyn.  Walk to 58th Street, turn left and walk all the way to the end.

By Car From Manhattan:  From the Manhattan or Brooklyn Bridges, get onto the Brooklyn Queens Expressway / Interstate 278 West heading toward Brooklyn and Staten Island.  From the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, follow signs to 278 toward Brooklyn and Staten Island / Verrazano Bridge.  You soon end up on the Gowanus Expressway.  Get off at Exit 23, 39th Street.  Bear right onto 39th Street and go to 1st Avenue.  Turn left onto 1st Avenue and drive to 58th Street.

From Belt Parkway, Heading West:  Take Exit 1 toward 65th Street.  Stay to your right, go up the ramp, turn left onto Ridge Blvd.  Go straight to 58th Street, turn left to 1st Avenue.

For more information on public transportation, click on NYC Subway-Bus-Train Maps , or NY-NJ PATH Train Maps or Long Island Railroad Maps or MetroNorth Railroad Maps or HopStop.
 

OTHER INFORMATION This event happens rain or shine.

Please Note - Disclaimer:  New York City area summer outdoor salsa events in general are subject to program changes and occasional cancellations for various reasons (band, DJ, weather, administrative mixups, etc.), so don't be too surprised if this happens.  And the music may not always be as "pure salsa" as we would like.  Also, the dancing conditions may be less than ideal, for example concrete, grass, dirt, sand, etc., so bring footwear that prepares you for any surface.  I will state the dancing surface if I know what it is.  My information comes from the most reliable sources I can find.  In most cases, the information turns out to be accurate, but occasionally it is not.  It is the nature of the beast.
 


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Special thanks to salsero Amir Shimoni for design and technical help in the creation of these events pages.
See his web site www.MamboPics.com for photographs of the people, events and performers of the New York & New Jersey mambo scene.

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