The annual Loisaida Festival returns to Avenue C this weekend.<\/p>\n
The vibrant event includes live music, crafts, food vendors, and more, while celebrating the diverse heritage of the Lower East Side.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Col\u00f3n, co-founder of the festival, and David \u201cDaso\u201d Soto, performer and community organizer, joined \u201cThe Rush Hour\u201d on Monday to preview the festivities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe beauty of it is we are celebrating the beauty of the Puerto Rican people and [transforming] the community that was forgotten,\u201d Soto reflected.<\/p>\n
Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual Loisaida Festival returns to Avenue C this weekend. The vibrant event includes live music, crafts, food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25,3284,98,100,99,21399,9,24,12,2370,63,3111,27,200],"class_list":["post-235847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bobby-cuza","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cassidy-slamin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-nyc","tag-the-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}