![]() In the women’s bathroom, women in flowing, off-the-shoulder blouses and skintight pants splashed water on their faces. Men with close-shorn beards milled about in flat-billed caps and baggy suits of every hue. The remnants of a birthday party were spread across one table, and a mylar balloon was still tied to a chair. Above the bar, a big trophy case was filled with the spoils of bowling and softball tournaments past. That week, the $10 tickets sold at the door went to the table tennis team.Ĭecilia Peña, who cleans houses during the week, handed out silver mixing bowls filled with ice and bottles of Corona and Dewar’s from behind a bar - the club’s version of bottle service. On the first Saturday of the month, there’s a live band, and members bring guests to dance the cover charge typically goes to fund trips for the club’s sports teams. The social club has about 300 members, or socios, most of them now middle-aged and middle-class. Yet when the weekend rolls around, some return to their first home in the city, reuniting at El Deportivo. Only 23 percent of Dominicans live in Manhattan 47 percent reside in the Bronx. Decades ago, Washington Heights was known as Santo Domingo Heights and Plátano Heights, home to the majority of the city’s Dominicans. There are more Dominicans in New York City than there are people in Seattle. More than 720,000 people in New York City identify as Dominican, according to the most recent figures from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey from 2015. Los Sabrosos de la Bachata play traditional Dominican dance music for the regulars of El Deportivo, one of the last social clubs of Washington Heights. ![]() Night life has moved further uptown, to the northern tip of Manhattan, where swanky clubs and lounges around Dyckman Street cater to a younger Latino crowd. Rising rents have pushed out the last of the raucous restaurants, and in their place are storefront churches, or nothing at all. On the avenues around Broadway a few men sat smoking hookah pipes that Saturday there was a single domino match outside a bodega a boutique was open late for a pop-up Wax ’N’ Sip, where women mixed pink Champagne with hair removal. As recently as the 1990s, there were endless domino matches on the sidewalks, boomboxes and parked cars blasting salsa and merengue on every corner, people pouring out of bars and restaurants that turned into dance clubs after hours. Once, it would have been hard to find a louder place than Washington Heights on a Saturday night. And in what would have seemed like an impossibility not so long ago, El Deportivo has become one of the last places in Washington Heights for old-fashioned Dominican dancing. López, an assistant to Congressman Adriano Espaillat, who represents Upper Manhattan and part of the Bronx. “It’s the best place to relax and be in your culture,” said Mr. ![]() The club began holding salsa nights on Fridays in its cavernous space on Amsterdam and 163rd Street (it was once a post office), live bands and karaoke on Saturdays, and traditional son dancing on Sundays. But as the old Dominican social scene began to be squeezed out by gentrification, about 15 years ago, club members voted to open its almost-hidden door to the public. He and his siblings are later captured by Cruella DeVille who wished to use them to make a coat.įortunately, Domino, his siblings are able to defeat Cruella and are reunited with their parents and their owner Chloe Simon.Articles in this series will explore how New Yorkers spend their Saturday nights in all corners of the city.Īrticles in this series explore how New Yorkers spend their Saturday nights in all corners of the city.įor a long time, the club was for members only. ![]() In Japanese dub he is voiced by Keisuke Ueda (who also voiced both Lucky & Patch) in Disney's 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue video game.ĭomino is born to Dipstick and Dottie along with his siblings. He is voiced by Frankie Muniz and by Sam Witwer (as narrator) in Disney's 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue video game. ![]() It is also worthy to note that Domino appears to have a lot of large black spots, as opposed to Little Dipper whose spots are more numerous and smaller. He has two black ears with rows of white spots like a set of game dice, thus earning him the name "Domino." He also has a blue (live-action)/red (cartoon) collar that has a domino hanging from it. Animal Domino is the son of Dottie and Dipstick, the brother of Oddball and Little Dipper, the grandson of Pongo and Perdita, a main character in the 2000 film 102 Dalmatians and one of the two protagonists of it's video game (the other one being Oddball). ![]()
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