Many Puerto Ricans migrated to Brooklyn aboard the SS CAROLINA.  From 1906 - the year the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company purchased the vessel until June 2, 1918, the day the ship was sunk by a German U-boat during World War One,...

"In a neighborhood where the Puerto Rican presence is all but completely forgotten, this paper tells the story of the last efforts of the pioneros of the community in trying to preserve their way of life against the rapid urban development that...