page_title: Spanish Americans
section_title: New York
hierarchical_section_title: Spanish Americans / Principal areas of settlement / New York
caption_attribution_description: English: Still of Anita Page for the film Our Modern Maidens (1929).
context_page_description: Spanish Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain.
  Spanish Americans are the longest-established European-American group with a continuous presence in Florida since 1565 and are the eighth-largest group in the United States of America.
  Most Americans of Latin American descent have Spanish ancestral roots due to five centuries of Spanish colonial settlement and large-scale immigration after independence. By this criterion, white Hispanic and Latino Americans largely overlap with "Spanish Americans", with the caveat that the former group can include European ancestries other than Spanish, and self-reported white Latinos often have some Amerindian ancestry. However, the term "Spanish-American" is used only to refer to Americans whose ancestry originates directly from Spain, and excludes Americans who immigrated from Latin America and have Spanish origins. Basque Americans and Catalan Americans may or may not be considered Spanish Americans, as they form a separate linguistic group from other Spaniards. Like other Europeans, people directly from Spain are considered White/Caucasian.
context_section_description: "Little Spain" was a Spanish-American neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan during the 20th century.
  Little Spain was on 14th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. A very different section of Chelsea existed on a stretch of 14th Street often referred to by residents as "Calle Catorce," or "Little Spain". The Church of Our Lady of Guadelupe (No. 299) was founded in 1902, when Spaniards started to settle in the area. Although the Spanish business have given way to such nightclubs as Nell's and Oh Johnny on the block between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, the Spanish food and gift emporium known as Casa Moneo has been at 210 West 14th since 1929. In 2010 the documentary Little Spain, directed and written by Artur Balder, was filmed in New York City. The documentary pulled together for first time an archive that reveals the untold history of the Spanish-American presence in Manhattan. They present the history of the streets of Little Spain in New York City throughout the 20th Century. The archive contains more than 450 photographs and 150 documents that have never been publicly displayed.
  Other important commerces and Spanish business of Little Spain were restaurants like La Bilbaína, Trocadero Valencia, Bar Coruña, Little Spain Bar, Café Madrid, Mesón Flamenco, or El Faro Restaurant, established 1927, and still today open at 823 Greenwich St. The Iberia was a famous Spanish dress shop.
  The heart of the Spanish American community in that area were the two landmarks: the Spanish Benevolent Society and the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, founded at the turn of the 19th century, being the first parish in Manhattan with mass in Latin and Spanish.
  Another area of influence is the Unanue family of Goya Foods. Its founder, Prudencio Unanue Ortiz, migrated from Spain in the 20th century and established Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States. The family's members include Joseph A. Unanue and Andy Unanue. Goya Foods is the 377th largest private American company.
caption: Spanish American actress Anita Page in Our Modern Maidens (1929).
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