Bad Bunny Dances at NYC Social Club Toñitas With AOC, Nydia Velazquez

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“This will always be your extended home,” New York City wrote in a note to the Puerto Rican superstar

Bad Bunny opened his latest album triumph Debí Tirar Má’s photos with “NUEVAYoL”, a celebration of his home away from home in New York. “Un shot de cañita en casa de Toñita y PR se siente cerquita,” he boasts on the record. “A shot of rum in Toñita’s house and Puerto Rico feels so close.” The superstar entered his makeshift teleportation machine on Sunday night with a packed party at the Caribbean Social Club, better known as Toñitas.

Bad Bunny was in the company of New York Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nydia Velazquez, the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in Congress. He also saved a dance for Toñita herself, Maria Antonia Cay, who opened the club in the seventies.

“Gracias por decir presente de nuevo,” Toñita wrote on Instagram, thanking the musician for coming back. They have fallen into a new tradition together. In 2024, Bad Bunny stopped for a grand celebration after the release of Un Verano Sin Ti. “Esta siempre sera tu casa extendida,” continued the comment, which translates to: “This will always be your extended home.”

“It’s funny because it’s an album dedicated entirely to Puerto Rico, but it starts in New York,” Bad Bunny recently shared Rolling Stone. “That’s kind of how the album started: Before, when a Puerto Rican would go to the United States, they’d be like, ‘Me voy pa’ Nueva York!’ So New York would be like shorthand for ‘I went off-island’ back then. And at the same time, amazing things were happening in New York when Latinos, Puerto Ricans were here – we joined forces with Cubans, with Dominicans who were music that was art.”

Later tonight, Bad Bunny will appear The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.