Manuel Marquino Clavel was a 43 year old 'day worker' when he joined the Spanish Benevolent Society of New York City in 1929. An immigrant from Cordoba, Spain, Manuel lived in many places including Brooklyn, Massapequa Park and Lindenhurst in the 1950s.
One and a half million+ Latinos live in NY's Long Island…from Long Island City to Montauk; 450K are residents of Nassau and Suffolk counties.