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Lin-Manuel Miranda in the title role of Hamilton;\u00a0 photo: en.wikipedia.org<\/em><\/p>\n Lin-Manuel Miranda was on summer break from college when he learned something about how New York was put together. He was working for a bilingual newspaper started by his father, covering an event called “Salsa, Blues and Shamrocks.” The event, put on by an Irish bar and restaurant in the Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights, was somewhat misnamed \u2014 it featured klezmer and merengue music as well. 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\nFor Mr. Miranda, then 20, it was a vision of New York\u2019s disparate cultures not battling one another but jamming side by side. The institutions that endured, he realized, were those that “embraced every wave of immigration that\u2019s come.” Within a few decades, this vision would inform the work that thrust him on the world.
\nOn a December morning in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Miranda, nursing a cold, reminisced about that summer, when he also discovered Morris-Jumel Mansion, the oldest house in New York, where Aaron Burr lived when he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. During the school year, Mr. Miranda had written and staged his first musical, “In the Heights,” at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and he had also moved into the Latino student house on campus, which gave him a new perspective on the layered worlds of New York and his own identity within them \u2014 part insider, part outsider looking in. Jumel Mansion, on Sugar Hill in Harlem, lay between Broadway and the two-story house in Inwood where Mr. Miranda grew up \u2014 with access to all those worlds but not bounded by any of them.
\n“You\u2019re in a different century for exactly one block, and then you go down the steps and there\u2019s a C-town, and you\u2019re back in 2017,” Mr. Miranda said. “That\u2019s to me what makes New York great \u2014 it\u2019s all these things together at the same time. The feeling that you\u2019re on the train with the Wall Street guy and the mariachi bands. We\u2019re all in this thing together.”
\nTo read the complete story: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/16\/nyregion\/lin-manuel-miranda-the-next-lion-of-new-york.html<\/em>
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