queens: Little India in Jackson Heights: South Asian Neighborhood
- 04/07/11 10:38 AM
First glance the area is like any immigrant crossroads in the great borough of Queens jackson Heights. The intersection is a build of indian pakistani bangladesh restaurants, cell phone outlets, and kiosks advertising money-grams /western union to India, pakistan, bangladesh. You will also find indian ethnic dresses, gold jeweller, grocery shops where you will find many cultural things. You will see asians standing around the corner chatting, sipping chai (indian tea) its seems as if you are in your home town. You will see sweet shops i mean mouth watering sweets lined in the window as display. Little India neighborhood where more South Asian … (0 comments)
queens: Condos NEW yORK
- 04/07/11 10:25 AM
Jackson Heights is a bustling neighborhood, famous for its garden apartment buildings and its diversity. More than half of its residents are immigrants, particularly Colombians, other Latinos, and South Asians, with its own Little India. The racial/ethnic composition of Jackson Heights is 56.6% Hispanic/Latino, 21.1% White, 16.6% Asian, 1.9% Black, and 3.8% Other. Jackson Heights' northern boundary is the Grand Central Parkway. East Elmhurst is northeast (86th St) and Corona east (Junction Blvd). Elmhurst is south of Roosevelt Avenue. To the west is Woodside, across the BQE. Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the borough of Queens … (0 comments)
queens: Family friendly: Best neighborhoods in New York for kids
- 04/05/11 02:52 PM
International flavor, beautiful churches, the Mets, two brand new public schools, small and big parks, museums and the best Italian ices in the United States give this area a high ranking on the great neighborhood map. What you don’t know is that family values in this area are some of the strongest in the city, with people looking out for their neighbor’s kids and tight-knit Latino and Asian communities emphasizing multigenerational homes. Near Flushing, Citi Field and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Corona has so much life. On a Saturday in the spring, the area is teeming with Little League baseball games on … (0 comments)
First glance the area is like any immigrant crossroads in the great borough of Queens jackson Heights. The intersection is a build of indian pakistani bangladesh restaurants, cell phone outlets, and kiosks advertising money-grams /western union to India, pakistan, bangladesh. You will also find indian ethnic dresses, gold jeweller, grocery shops where you will find many cultural things. You will see asians standing around the corner chatting, sipping chai (indian tea) its seems as if you are in your home town. You will see sweet shops i mean mouth watering sweets lined in the window as display.
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