Mr. Speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to the Bustelo Coffee Co.. which this Friday. November 19. will celebrate its 65th anniversary. In 1928 an immigrant from Spain named Gregorio Bustelo started a coffee business In New Yorks "El Barrio" In East Harlem with a coffee roaster he had purchased for $125. Over the succeeding decades New York Citys Hispanic populatlonparticulary its Puerto Rican populationgrew even larger. and Gregorio Bustelo expanded his business to match it. By the year 1960. Bustelo Coffee had a fleet of 10 delivery trucks and a modem plant In the Bronx to provide high quality expresso coffee to the many Spanish bodegas and to a number of New York supermarkets.
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