In Washington Heights and Inwood — two neighborhoods where the island of Manhattan narrows — generations of Dominicans have called the area home. As the largest Latino group in the five boroughs, Dominican communities exist across the city, though the population is concentrated in Manhattan and the Bronx, located just across the Harlem River.

Friends agonized over the loss of Manny Diaz -- one of more than 220 people who died in the Jet Set Nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Diaz was a father.

Dominicans in New York City are mourning the deaths of over 200 people in Tuesday’s roof collapse at a Santo Domingo nightclub