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Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr. was born in New York City on April 20, 1923. His father Ernest Sr. from Guayanilla and mother Ercilia Ortiz from Coamo both immigrated in New York from Puerto Rico just before he was born.
East Harlem, sometimes referred to as “El Barrio,” where Tito was reared, was predominantly occupied by Puerto Rican immigrants.
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Tito once said, “My parents moved from Brooklyn to El Barrio because of the two-month rent-free policy at the time. We frequently shifted between blocks until my father eventually got married. In the Brooklyn-based Gem Razor Blade Corporation, he eventually attained the post of foreman.