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Nov 11, 2020 · Home city: Bronx, NY. Ethnicity: Black and Puerto Rican. Height: 5'10. Weight: 140 pounds. Early life: His family, upbringing, and education. Torres and his twin brother were born in the East Bronx on 12 March 1988. Ritchie was named after the late singer Ritchie Valens after his mother watched the movie La Bamba. Read also.
Like many people in the Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him, and he governs from a place of lived experience. Ritchie’s mother single-handedly raised him, his twin brother, and his sister in a public-housing project.
His mother raised him, his twin brother, and their sister. Torres was upset by the $269 million city-subsidized Trump Golf Links built "across the street" in Ferry Point Park rather than housing for struggling New Yorkers; the course was built on a landfill, took 14 years to be developed, and opened in 2015.
- New York University (attended)
- José E. Serrano
My mother raised me, my twin... - Ritchie Torres For Congress. My mother raised me, my twin brother, and my sister in a small NYCHA apartment, all by herself, on jobs that barely paid the minimum wage. So I’m no...
Jan 25, 2015 · Torres and his twin brother were born in the East Bronx. He was named for the late singer Ritchie Valens, after his mother watched the movie La Bamba. His father wasn't around at the outset...
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Dec 31, 2020 · Torres grew up with his mother, twin brother, and sister. Debra told The New Yorker in 2016 that she named him after Ritchie Valens, having seen the film La Bamba when she was pregnant with him.
Nov 11, 2022 · Slightly after Rihanna but slightly before Adele, Torres was born in 1988 alongside his twin brother, Reuben—he also has an older sister, Melissa, by another father—and raised by his single mother in Throggs Neck Houses, a public housing project known for broken heaters, leaky pipes, lead paint, mold, rats, and roaches.
