Roosevelt Avenue’s street vendors can provide you with everything from fruits and vegetables to a new case for your cellphone.
"Tania Mattos Jose is an organizer with Queens Neighborhoods United, which works to promote sustainable development without displacement in Corona, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. Mattos is an unabashed cheerleader for the neighborhood where she grew up — and hopes that visitors arrive with an eye toward honoring its residents, their culture, and the community they’ve built. Myself and my family migrated from Bolivia to Miami to Jackson Heights, and I’ve lived in the neighborhood for thirty years now. My aunts lived here, so we lived in their one room — me, my brother, my dad, and my mom — we stayed there for a few months so we could get on our feet and get an apartment. What I love is that it’s a very tight-knit community. Even though there are so many cultures and languages and people from different countries, for the essential things that matter to people, we overlap each other. ...'
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WNYC: Land of 167 Languages (Video)
Jackson Heights: Unearthing the People’s Struggle
W - Jackson Heights, Queens
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NT Times: Jackson Heights Through the Eyes of Frederick Wiseman
An image from Frederick Wiseman’s documentary “In Jackson Heights”
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