The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-21
BY HELEN WORDEN

BY HELEN WORDEN
 New York-Spain is in New York, too. You would enjoy walk along winding Cherry street, once the most fashionable section of Colonial New York and now the heart of Spanish Manhattan.
 Here, as in New York's Little Italy, English is a foreign lan- guaSe. Business on Cherry street is transacted in Spanish.
 Mecca of Cherry Street Everyone who goes 10 Cherry street has dinner at Sebastian .Es- tradas. Senor Estrada comes from Barcelona. In proof of the quality of his cooking he tips the scales at three hundred, although he modestly protests that the last hundred pounds was gained nos by eating his own cooking but by enjoying the food his mother pre- pared when he visited Barcelona last year. He swears that he gained one hundred pounds on that trip.
 SebaS..an's reSta urant at No. 50 Cherry street is good deal like the inns of the Spanish provcrb, You ind in it only what you take to it."
 The patrons dine in the kitchen. There are two long trestie-like ta- bles about which they sit. Aside from these and the plain wooden bench tlankIng them, there is nothing much else in the room eX- cept the stove. 1t is on this stove that Sebastian does his cooking. While you wait, he will prepare tor you hot and spicy bean soup made with sherry wine. Crisply drowned little squads served With baked tomatoes. Broiled lndivid- | ual steaks and delicious salad ! made of all sorts of green things over which has been stirred rich olive-oil dressing with a touch of garlic in it. A glass of sour red wine, a piece of goat-milk cheese and some freshly baked black | bread is the dessert-with fresh | fruit, if you wish it.
 At tirst glance Sebastian's res | taurant is dark, gloomy and shab- | by in appearance but his food makes you forget the surround ings.
 | Uptown Spain
 On the same street with Sebas- tian is the hotel where Span iards live when they first come tv l New York. 1t is called Hotel Ia | Valenciana. The number is 45 Cherry street. You may buy Span | iSh caStanetS, caSti.e soap bars. shawls, Basque berets and Spanish magazines in the hotels general store. One of the owners, Juan Casasin, is the proprietor of the Cervantcs Library at 62 LenoX | avenue, the largest Spanish book store in the United States. It is in the uptown Spanish section. l This quarter, however, is not pure Spanish. Cubans, Central Ameri- cans. Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, | South Americans and negroes make the district from 10th to 115th along Fifth avenue a polyg- lot neighborhood.
 However, it is all part of the | Spanish picture in New York and if you like Spanish plays, Spanish dances, and Spanish cabarets, it is the place to go.
 Any night you may watch the sensuous rhumba danced by Gu bans at the San Jose theater on Frawley Square, Fifth avenue and 10th street. No English is spok- en. The theater is known only to Spaniards.
 The Spanish girls in this quar- ter are very beautiful when they are young. The more mature soon lose charm and become the grave world-worn type that Goya loved to portray. The gayety in Span ish New York has not the sunny cheerfulness of the Italian section. Like the faces and clothing of the people, it is sombre.
  TOMORROW: Continuing your trip abroad. In New York.