Press Release

Martin Chicon is truly a native son of New York Chicon, whose hard working grandparents immigrated from Santiago, Dominican Republic in the 1920s (as one of the first Dominican families to have settled in Upper Manhattan), was born & raised in Washington Heights and Harlem, where his parents -- who were also immigrants -- raised him. Chicon graduated from both St. Catherine’s of Genoa School, and Cardinal Hayes High School.