New York City nightlife comes together after NYPD attacks on Puerto Rican Day
BORIKÉN, a fundraiser party for the community, will take place this Friday in Brooklyn.
Photo: Courtesy of SYNCHRO
DJs from all over New York City are coming together for a good cause.
This Friday, June 13th, a fundraiser called BORIKÉN will take place at Tulum Brooklyn to benefit the Puerto Rican community. All proceeds will go to Juventud Unida por la Independencia, an independent and anti-imperialist organization of the Puerto Rican diaspora which aims to educate and mobilize their youth, students, and allies. The lineup includes Mellow Domingo, DJ Guari, Curly Nez, DJ Tyler, and SYNCHRO, who is also organizing the party.
The event comes days after the New York Police Department (NYPD) raided Bushwick bar and nightclub Mood Ring during an afterparty for Puerto Rican Day. According to sources who were in attendance, the officers were responding to a noise complaint, but gave no verbal warning. A video posted to X by independent reporter Talia Jane shows multiple instances of cops aggressively pushing and shoving partygoers. The incident reportedly resulted in at least one arrest and one hospitalization.
“As a Bushwick native Dominican who was there when the NYPD violently disrupted a Puerto Rican afterparty, this event means everything to me,” SYNCHRO tells HEADS KNOW. “I’ve taken my anger and frustration to focus on turning that pain into power. And in that spirit, this isn’t just a party, it’s a call to protect our joy, our bodies, and our spaces from this new age of modern fascism and over-policing. We’re told to be divided, but this is how we push back.”
Read my original reporting of the NYPD raid at Mood Ring on Brooklyn Magazine and see the full lineup for BORIKÉN below. Pre-sale tickets are available via POSH.
