In the 1970s, Maria Antonia Cay opened the Caribbean Social Club, better known as Toñita’s. 50 years later, it's still going strong.
—known in Brooklyn as Toñita—opened the Caribbean Social Club back in the ’70s. Those days, Williamsburg was definitively called; glass and steel high-rises, privately-owned parks, Apple Stores and coffee chains had yet to shoulder in. Gentrification hit the neighborhood harder than most, skyrocketing the rent for Cay’s fellow Puerto Ricans. A saturated, thrumming community got pushed down and scattered out.
CAY: I don’t get tired. No, I feel good. I feel happy because I see the people happy. They have a good time, so it’s like I’m having a good time, too. I don’t know all of them, but they knowCAY: No, no favorites. Everybody is welcome. If they behave, they are welcome.BECKER: Tell me about your regular customers. Is there anyone who’s come here from the start that’s still coming here today?
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