[2] The first Hispanic presence in New York may have been that of the Portuguese explorer's troops Estêvão Gomes, who served the Castilian Crown.
He was a member of the crew of the Dutch ship Jonge Tobias, which reached New York City in 1613, and he lived there for a while, being the first non-Native American to reside in the region.
[3] Another early settler with Hispanic and Moorish, as well as Dutch, roots was Anthony Janszoon van Salee.
This migration increased in 1917 with the enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted U.S. citizenship to all Puerto Ricans,[4] and especially in the 1940s and 1950s.
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