Inwood Residents Ask Why They Weren't Invited to Latin Grammys Party

Inwood Residents Ask Why They Weren't Invited to Latin Grammys Party

September 27, 2011 6:47am | By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

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INWOOD — To the thousands of concert-goers who attended Sunday’s Latin Grammys Street Party in Inwood Hill Park, it was a party worth waiting for.

But for the many Inwood residents who live near the park, they said it was the party they were never invited to.

Neighborhood locals said they were surprised to see a large stage and speakers, food vendors, trucks and scores of police in the park on Sunday for a televised concert they claim flew under the community’s radar.

Thousands of Latin music fans packed into the park to listen to such artists such as Delexilio, Los Hermanos Rosario and Eddy Herrera, among others.

“I didn’t know anything about it until it was here,” said Gladys Rhodisia, as she walked her dog Sunday morning, adding she would have liked to have known earlier so that she could bring her mother to hear some of the popular performers at the show.

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