Latin Dance Nights Are Helping Me Reconnect to a Time-Honored Tradition

Latin Dance Nights Are Helping Me Reconnect to a Time-Honored Tradition
Getty/Illustration by Keila Gonzalez
Getty/Illustration by Keila Gonzalez

Ask anybody from New York, and they’ll tell you that summers in the city are special. They are so special that they’ve been immortalized in great works of literature, cinema, and songs for decades now. Perhaps most famously on the Latine side of things, El Gran Combo’s “Un Verano En Nueva York” stands as an ode to New York City summer and everything it brings with it: street festivals, block parties, boat tours, beach…