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I currently live in Manhattan, UES. My parents are paying for my $1500 studio while I go to school. One year left, I'm looking into less expensive areas such as Sunnyside, Woodside, Astoria, or Jackson Heights in Queens. I've heard there are Dominican, Bangladeshi, Korean, Chinese, Indian, and other specific neighborhoods. Where are these neighborhoods? I certainly wouldn't want to place myself somewhere that there would be abrasiveness or opposition. I'm Korean but don't speak it and don't really know the culture, as I'm adopted so I'm looking for the most diverse area, that isn't in or too close to an industrial section. I'm favoring Woodside because it's LIRR station and I often go home to my parents' further out on LI. Of course "safety" is a factor as well. I'd like to stay close to Manhattan because I work and go to school on the UES, and I would like to ride my bike there often rather than take the subway or bus.
Jackson Heights (where I live) is supposedly the most diverse neighborhood in the country. The historic district is very nice. I think all of the ethnicities are very mixed, so I don't think there are specific ethnic divisions per se (except for the Indian stores that line the main drag in JH). My apartment floor has Korean, Irish, Polish, Indian, and "American" people.
I like all the neighborhoods you named. Sunnyside is great, but has limited train lines, as does Astoria, but if you are riding your bike, Sunnyside is the closest to Manhattan. All are safe, although they weren't in the 1980s, and some people still think of the neighborhoods that way.
hey pd in my opinion you'll encounter zero or nearly zero abrasiveness or opposition in any of those neighbors you named, especially jackson heights. good luck
ethnic neighborhoods in sunnyside, woodside, jackson heights, astoria
Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, and Astoria.
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I'm looking for like "between so and so street and so and so ave is mostly ____ (ethnic group). Along so and so ave is all ____ businesses and restaurants..." I already know they are IN these Queens neighborhoods, my question was evoking where within the said neighborhoods are the ethnic neighborhoods?
I don't understand if you are trying to find specific ethnicities because you think it might be cheaper?
In Jackson Heights the Indians/Pakistanis/Bengalis are nearby 73rd-75th Streets between Roosevelt and 37th Ave. The South Americans (Colombians, Peruvians, Ecuadorians, etc) are concentrated more near 82nd St. between Roosevelt and 37th Ave. and several blocks in each direction from there. When you go up further into Corona, the area is more Mexican. But really everything is quite mixed. If you are Bengali on a street with Colombian-oriented businesses, or a Korean shopping at the Polish deli, no one is going to look at you funny.
You might save a few hundred dollars a month by getting an apartment in one of the areas you mentioned, but in order to really save money and get something for, say, $1000, you are going to have to look really hard. Or else move into the less real-estate-desirable areas in Corona and Elmhurst (where the studio is still going to cost $1000 but might be easier to find).
I think people have this idea that if they move into an ethnic enclave that suddenly their rent will be very low. This is not necessarily the case. Jackson Heights, Sunnyside and Woodside are nice places to live and the rents are not dirt cheap just because many of the residents are foreign-born.
Astoria is more Greek than anything else, more so the further north in the neighborhood you go. It also has a significant Egyptian community along Steinway St between 28th Ave and Astoria Blvd. There are more Hispanics (of various backgrounds, no one predominating) closer to the waterfront and to the south, near Dutch Kills.
Sunnyside is mostly Hispanic with some residual Italian population, fading to South Asian (Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi) as you move into Woodside, which is a mix of South Asians and Hispanics. There are also substantial numbers of other Asian groups (Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino) in this area, although South Asians are the largest group.
Jackson Heights is very heavily South Asian right around the epicenter at the intersection of Roosevelt Ave and Broadway, becoming more Hispanic (especially Dominican) further east and northeast towards Corona and more white (especially Italian) further south towards Maspeth.
Astoria is sort of different and separate, but the others all bleed together a little bit.
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