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Originally Posted by justcallmetj
It hasn't been mentioned yet, so I would like to suggest the Hillside Ave area of Queens Village and Jamaica. There is a very large Bangladeshi community there, so you will find grocery stores, shopping and restaurants all east indian centric. Travel time to manhattan via the F train is roughly 35 minutes to an hour during rush hour.
As far as your budget, $2000 will go a long way there. I'd imagine you can fetch a nice 2br apartment with great amenities very easily. That being said, Richmond Hill would also be a great choice.
Best of luck!
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A little further east on Hillside Avenue there is Bellerose and Floral Park which is becoming primarily Indian. There are mostly houses in the area though, not apartments. Many if not all of the realtors in the area are Indian and they seem to bring in only Indian buyers. The Indian realtors heavily solicit homeowners to sell. I'm not sure if it's blockbusting but it's only Indian realtors doing this and they only seem to service the Indian community. Businesses and restaurants are heavily Indian, and the employees you'll see in local shops and banks are Indian. I'm surprised the media has not taken notice of this huge change in demographics in the area from primarily Jewish/Italian to Indian. It's as big a change as when downtown Flushing become a Chinese community but this change is flying under the radar.
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