There’s a new street name in New York: Los Tigres del Norte Way

New York City has paid tribute to the Mexican determination euphony set Los Tigres del Norte by naming a thoroughfare successful Brooklyn aft them. 

Dubbed Los Tigres del Norte Way, the thoroughfare is located successful the Sunset Park neighborhood, an country with a beardown Latino and Mexican presence.

Throngs of fans and supporters, including the Tigres themselves, gathered successful the Sunset Park territory for the unveiling of the thoroughfare sign. (Los Tigres del Norte/Facebook)

“Starting today, a thoroughfare successful Brooklyn carries the sanction of Los Tigres del Norte. Thank you for walking with us, contiguous and always” the radical wrote successful an Instagram post Thursday evening, on with a video and photos of the street-naming ceremony.

The lawsuit was led by Councilman Lincoln Restler and different section representatives, who highlighted the group’s taste and societal interaction for the Latino assemblage successful the United States. Upon uncovering the thoroughfare sign, galore attendees chanted “Somos Americanos,” the borderline anthem that topped the charts 2 decades agone and turned the radical into involuntary spokespersons for the migrant cause.

The tribute took spot days earlier Los Tigres del Norte’s performance successful Madison Square Garden connected May 24, arsenic portion of their planetary La Lotería Tour 2025, which includes 22 further dates successful the U.S.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Los Tigres del Norte person received a nationalist tribute successful the U.S. They besides person a thoroughfare named aft them successful Chicago and a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Amid the current taste debate successful Mexico regarding narcocorridos — Mexican determination euphony ballads that archer stories associated with cause trafficking and organized transgression — Los Tigres del Norte person said they volition person to alteration the connection “corrido” to “teller of stories” to debar getting successful occupation with authorities. 

Corridos and narcocorridos are 2 antithetic things. While the second refers to organized crime, the erstwhile tells each types of real-life stories including migration, oppression, regular beingness and politics.  

“The stories we sing person a batch to bash with the community, with what our radical are going through. And they’re precise real,” set person Jorge Hernández told the paper El País earlier this month. However, they person removed from their setlist the opus “El Jefe de Jefes,” which makes a nonstop notation to stories of organized crime.

Los Tigres del Norte person been performing since 1968. They’re primitively from Rosa Morada, a tiny assemblage successful Sinaloa. The set was founded by brothers Jorge, Hernán, Eduardo and Luis Hernández, and their relative Oscar Lara. 

Throughout their career, they’ve sold implicit 70 cardinal records and won 7 Grammys. 

With reports from Infobae and LA Times