Hurricane Maria Commemoration

Please join the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in partnership with the Battery Park City Authority for our second annual commemoration for victims and survivors of Hurricane Maria - a bilingual, all-ages event, FREE! No RSVP or ticket purchase required.

Date:

Saturday, September 13, 2025

From 3 to 4:30 P.M.

Location:

Rockefeller Park, in Battery Park City

(intersection of River Terrace and Chambers Street)

Lower Manhattan, NYC

- outdoors, at the "My Cry Into the World" Hurricane Maria Memorial

Rain/inclement weather location:

Community Meeting Room @ 6 River Terrace

(indoors, three blocks south of the memorial)

** Our event consists of spoken word and live music (and an open mic - the signup sheet will be at our welcome table at our event) - we will commemorate and celebrate the resiliency, natural beauty, and creativity of Puerto Rico. The memorial design “arose from a vision that one can always transform the sad memory of adverse circumstances into something positive and poetic that can bring solace to all” - in the words of architect Segundo Cardona and artist Antonio Martorell. **

Additional info about our event: https://bpca.ny.gov/event/nuyorican-remembrance-gathering

Details about the memorial / structure:

https://bpca.ny.gov/places/museums-memorials/hurricane-maria-memorial/

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