A new Spanish-language daily will launch in New York on April 20, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. N.Y. Al Dia will publish editions Monday through Friday, serving the Spanish-speaking populations in New York, New Jersey and Long Island, the New York Daily News reported.

Expected initial circulation is 20,000. N.Y. Al Dia's editor, Vicglamar Torres, is a former employee of Hoy, the Spanish-language daily whose New York edition ceased publishing in 2008.

Torres said the new venture isn't trying to replace Hoy, which still publishes in Los Angeles and Chicago, but hopes the paper will serve as an "alternative."

New York's Spanish speaking readers are also served by El Diario La Prensa.

"This is a moment of crisis, but it's also an opportunity to make new things. This is a day with capacity for reinvention," Torres told the Daily News.