PinoyBuilt — Stories of Filipino America

New York City • April 2026. NYC Little Manila Walk-About Marks 2026 Immigrant Heritage Week. woodside queens, little manila nyc, bayanihan, fil-am community, consul general mangalile, immigrant heritage week, filipino entrepreneurs. New York • April 2026 NYC Little Manila Walk-About Marks 2026 Immigrant Heritage Week On April 16, Consul General Senen T. Mangalile and the NYC Mayor's Office walked the streets of Woodside, Queens — bringing government to the community, and reminding the city who built it. The Little Manila Avenue sign in Woodside, Queens — a landmark of 50+ years of Filipino community presence in New York City. | Photo: Philippine Consulate General New York The first piece I ever wrote about Filipinos in New York City was about my mother. Lualhati "Nati" Reyes-Perseveranda — a young nursing graduate from Mary Johnston — stood on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in 1961, in front of the New York Publ...

California • March 2026. UC Acceptance Season 2026 — A Filipino American Family Guide to UC Decisions, Campus Communities, and Fil-Am Student Organizations. fil-am, filipino, uc admissions 2026, uc acceptance, filipino student organizations, ucla, uc berkeley, uc davis, pinoy pride, college admissions. COLLEGE ADMISSIONS • MARCH 2026 UC Acceptance Season 2026: A Filipino American Family Guide to Decisions, Campus Life & Fil-Am Student Organizations Decisions are dropping now. UC Davis, Irvine, Santa Cruz, and Riverside are out. UCLA, Berkeley, and UCSB are days away. Here's what every Fil-Am family needs to know — from decision dates and SIR deadlines to the Filipino student organizations waiting to welcome your kid on every UC campus. It's mid-March. Your kid is refreshing their applicant portal every 20 minutes. Your group chat with the other Filipino parents is blowing up. Someone's nephew just got into Davis. Someone's niece is waitlist...

Welcome to Our Fil-Am Community—Thank You for Connecting!  Hi there! I want to take a moment to personally welcome you to my Pinoy Built Facebook circle and, more broadly, to the growing online community of Filipino Americans who celebrate, share, and build Filipino identity, culture, and pride together. First and foremost, thank you for connecting! Every friend I add is more than just a Facebook connection—they are a part of a living, breathing, vibrant community. Whether you grew up here in the U.S., migrated recently from the Philippines, or are somewhere in between like me, your presence matters. As part of this welcome, I’d love to introduce you to the Pinoy Built Facebook Page and Pinoybuilt.com . If you like and follow the Facebook Page, you’ll get notifications of new stories, community posts, and features on the website, so you never miss the latest content celebrating our heritage. What is Pinoybuilt.com? Pinoy Built is more than a blog or a website—it’s ...

American Canyon, Solano County • March 2026. Know Your Rights: An Immigration Attorney's Message to the Filipino Community. immigration attorney filipino american, catholic charities yolo solano, know your rights immigration, fil-am immigration legal help, clarence mamaril, ice detentions filipinos, uscis legal services, filipino immigrant rights california. IMMIGRATION LAW • MARCH 2026 Know Your Rights: An Immigration Attorney's Message to the Filipino Community After 30 years in immigration law, Atty. Clarence Mamaril joins PinoyBuilt to help Fil-Am and immigrant communities navigate one of the most turbulent periods in U.S. immigration history. Photo above: Atty. Clarence Mamaril with Congressman Mike Thompson at a recent town hall in American Canyon. Hello, PinoyBuilt readers. My name is Clarence Mamaril, and I am honored to join this community as a contributing writer. I want to begin by thanking J.F. Perseverand...