A new report says that of all the various Latinos in New York, young Puerto Ricans are doing the worst of all, in social categories including graduation rates and poverty. Por que?

It's our favorite time of year—the time that barricades and fences line Fifth Avenue up by Central Park, when Upper East Side shopkeepers board their windows. It's the Puerto Rican Day Parade this coming Sunday! (And it's too bad Arthur Carter no longer owns the Observer—his editorials about what he could actually see…