Nuyorican Poets Café
Nuyorican Poets Cafe building on East 3rd St. in Alphabet City | |
| Address | 236 East 3rd Street |
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| Location | New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°43′19″N 73°58′54″W / 40.721951°N 73.9817816°W |
| Public transit | New York City Subway: F and <F> trains at Second Avenue |
| Opened | 1975 |
| Website | |
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The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a nonprofit organization in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is a bastion of the Nuyorican (Puerto Rican New Yorker) art movement, and has become a forum for poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy, and theater. Several events during the PEN World Voices festival are hosted at the cafe.
The Café is meant to be a venue from which Nuyorican artists, poets, and playwrights take shared themes and messages of community, understanding, and the breaking down of arbitrary separators of color, among others, and spread them outside the environment of the Café.