Think Global Go Local
The historic garden community of Jackson Heights is one of New York's most flavorful, colorful and diverse neighborhoods-a true global village where hundreds of languages are spoken and where elegantly-dressed Indian women wearing saris walk side by side with Koreans, Colombians and Argentines.

A Local Global Village
Significant Indian, Thai, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Colombian, Argentinean, Mexican, Korean, Filipino, Chinese and European American populations are just some of the many groups that call Jackson Heights home, creating a diverse neighborhood chock full of vibrancy, colors and smells.

Step off the subway and find yourself in Little India, which is centered on 74th Street between Roosevelt Avenue and 37th Avenue. Here, window displays show mannequins modeling colorful saris while nearby shops sell popular music, ornate gold jewelry or books in Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali. The hungry flock to local sweet shops for a quick snack or dig into curries and samosas at the many sit down restaurants in the area, while others pass their time at local beauty salons getting their eyebrows "threaded" or their feet and hands adorned with henna before a big event.

But walk just a few blocks away to Roosevelt Avenue or 37th Avenue and find yourself transported to yet another world where a thriving Latin American population has set up small Mexican clothing shops, Colombian bakeries, Guatemalan handicraft stores and Argentinean restaurants.

Peaceful Surroundings
Why do so many people want to live in Jackson Heights anyway? Perhaps it is because Jackson Heights has some of New York City's most elegant apartment buildings and residential gardens-perks hard to come by for city-folk! Influenced by the "Garden City" movement and the backlash against high density tenements that had plagued other parts of New York City, planners and lead architects for Jackson Heights strived to allow room for lawns and gardens, churches and esthetic features like towers and picturesque roofs in the community. As a result, today's Jackson Heights boasts wide and shady streets, a beautiful collection of English garden homes (complete with slate roofs and sizable yards) and spacious apartments with charming interior private gardens. Explore Jackson Height's beautiful architecture by taking a trip along the urban Garden City Trail, where descriptive signs authored for each location mark 48 vantage points. (Pick up the self-guided trail across from The Washington Plaza on 35th Avenue between 73rd and 74th Street and take it from there.)

Getting Here:
Subway F train: Roosevelt Avenue/Jackson Heights station
#7 train: 74th Street and 82nd Street stations
E, R and V trains Roosevelt Avenue/Jackson Heights station
Parking 73rd Street parking lot between 37th Avenue and 37th Road
82nd Street garage between 35th Avenue and 37th Avenue near 37th