Williamsburg mainstay Toñita's attracts a new generation to the social club
When Maria Antonia Cay opened the Caribbean Social Club in the 1970s, it catered to a working-class community where people from the neighborhood could find reminders of home — whether that was Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic. The area, known as Los Sures, was once home to mostly Puerto Ricans who came to New York in search of better prospects. But in the nearly 50 years since the club — which is better known as Toñita’s, after a nickname of Cay’s — opened its doors, the once industrial, bl
