Casitas are replicas of traditional Puerto Rican wooden houses where neighborhood residents gather to farm and socialize.

RINCON CRIOLLO

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RINCON CRIOLLO

http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/news/nlfw98/greensp.html

LAS CASITAS: OASIS OR ILLEGAL SHACKS? 

NY Times, Sept. 20, 1990 by David Gonzalez

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DE163CF933A1575AC0A966958260

LAS CASITAS: AN URBAN CULTURAL ALTERNATIVE by Betti-Sue Hertz

Experimental Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Arts and Industries Building, Washington DC

sponsor: Bronx Council on the Arts - Betti-Sue Hertz,  February 2 - June 30, 1991.

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Casita Photographs courtesy Martha Cooper

Close to 100 casitas were built throughout New York City (most exist near community gardens) very few remain today.