for fruit flavors in Puerto Rico are not common in other Spanish-speaking places. , a sweet orange flavor, is referred to as in most other Spanish-speaking locales; however, in Puerto Rico, refers only to the bitter orange. , an Anglicism derived from the English word watermelon, is called in standard Spanish. On the United States mainland In the 1940s, during the Puerto Rican Great Migration in which large numbers of Puerto Ricans moved to New York, they took with them their customs and traditions, including the piraguas. According to Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia by Winston James, piraguas were introduced in New York by Puerto Ricans as early as 1926. In his book, James describes the presence of piragua pushcarts during the Harlem Riots against the Puerto Rican migrants in July 1926. Author Miguel Meléndez, who moved from New York City to Chicago in the late 1950s, expresses in his book We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights the following: The piragua was mentioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a blog post titled "What's in Your Piragua?" EPA Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock noted that the EPA had helped the Puerto Rican government negotiate over $1 billion in new water treatment improvements, and added, "As this commitment is fulfilled, the water will just get cleaner and cleaner whether it is coming out of a tap or is served in a piragua (no, not a canoe, but a Puerto Rican snow cone) – regardless of the weather." Piragua vending is not limited to Puerto Rico and New York. Piragüeros with their piragua pushcarts can be found in Hispanic neighborhoods in Bridgeport, Chicago, Jersey City, Miami, Newark, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. Cultural influence The Puerto Rican piragua has been the subject of paintings and sculpture, a children's book, and songs in a Broadway musical: The painting ("Piragua Pushcart") is a mixed media piece by an unknown artist, on exhibit at El Museo del Barrio in New York. Artist Iván Moura Limardo created a series of piragua-related paintings, including and , which were displayed at the Siena Art Gallery in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The town of Coamo, Puerto Rico, commissioned the creation of a monument in the honor of the piragüeros. The statue, which is called , is located in the town plaza. An educational storybook called Luisito and the Piragua, written in 1979 for children of migrant workers