East 110th Street is also Tito Puente Way, after the ‘King of Latin Music’.
Tito Puente (1923–2000), musician and bandleader, was the son of Puerto Ricans living in Spanish Harlem. In August 2000 East 110th Street, between Fifth and First Avenues, was named Tito Puente Way. The name Spanish Harlem itself first described a Puerto Rican and Latin American enclave that formed around 110th Street and Lexington Avenue after the First World War.